Tasting Education: Viewing Curriculum, Pedagogy, Learning, and Educational Research Through the Sense of Taste (Culinary Canvas: a Series on Integrating the Arts and Food Into Higher Education)

Why is the sense of taste so conspicuously absent from contemporary educational research and so severely rationed in the ways it is lived in universities and schools?After all, in the world, taste is a perceptual and epistemological powerhouse in the complicated process of staying alive as well as living a life.Taste is also a process of world making. It's a way of reading, naming, mapping, imagining, remembering, and making worlds and connecting to the worlds of others-therefore it is curricular. In attending to how taste matters and matters of taste, chapters in Tasting Education: Viewing Curriculum, Pedagogy, Learning, and Educational Research Through the Sense of Taste invite participants to think about taste as a sense, and/or the sense of taste, as it plays out in the thinking and doing of education and its inquiry.This book takes up taste as an embodied set of meanings that are sensuous, pragmatic, and political: as a key part of the sensorium, and as engagement with the sensuos