Jane Sherman
JANE SHERMAN was for many years a consultant in food and nutrition education at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and led the ENACT team in developing materials for capacity development in nutrition education in Africa. She has an MA from Oxford University and three other Masters degrees in education, literature and linguistics, with some research in testing and comprehension and further training in course design, materials development and use of learning platforms.
She has long experience of education systems (testing, examining, course design, materials development, university teaching, professional training and work-related learning). She has published many articles and books in these fields and has developed specialised training courses in (among other things) project formulation and management, evaluation, report-writing and food safety. Her particular educational interests are independent and distance learning, methodology, experiential learning, participatory approaches, course design and use of visual media.
In the last ten years she has worked mostly in food and nutrition education, mainly for the FAO, producing manuals on school curricula and school gardening and learning materials for Zambian elementary schools, carrying out capacity/needs analysis on nutrition education training in Africa and designing and producing the ENACT course in nutrition education training. She has advised on training for agriculture extension workers and nutrition education programs in Malawi schools, has reviewed nutrition education materials tools and has written a report on school gardening in sub-Saharan Africa, a chapter on community-based nutrition education and literature reviews of nutrition education needs and training needs.
She is convinced that food education is an essential but undervalued element in global programs for improving diet and health.