Tasting Education

""Laura Jewett and Zulitazhira Hinojosa have assembled and edited a most remarkable volume that should appeal to the tastes of many, especially those interested in supplementing sensory critiques and commentaries that focus on ocularcentrism (moi-même in my anti-racist tracts on lynching and reparation) and the significance of the auditory for hearing curriculum in a new key (Aoki). But the participants in this volume taste more than a more complex menu of conceptual options in understanding education; they insist there is also a political subtext to reimagining - re-experiencing - education through cooking and food. The book amounts to a gumbo as delicious as any served in Baton Rouge or New Orleans, a mélange of ingredients and tastes like no other. Substitute coffee or tea for that aperitif and begin tasting."" - William F. Pinar, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada ""Tasting Education: Viewing Curriculum, Pedagogy, Learning, and Educational Research Through the Sense of Taste delves into the multiplicities of taste/ing/ed by exploring notions of resistance, resilience, and refusal as a kind of sensual curriculum located with/in taste. This book is more than simply an exploration of the senses and how they become socioculturally and politically located. It is an engagement with questions of equity, access, and community. Contributors to this volume ask readers to consider how one becomes, and what futurities emerge as they intra-act with the complexities of taste."" - Boni Wozolek, PhD, Pennsylvania State University, Abington College ""I read Tasting Education: Viewing Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Learning and Educational Research through the Sense of Taste as a skeptic—Could this really be relevant to curriculum and pedagogy? My conclusion: Most definitely. Tasting Education provides a refreshing new lens that challenges epistemological boundaries of what we have traditionally defined as educational research. Relying on taste as a visceral form of knowing and the theorizing of taste as sense, method, and justice-oriented practice, the collection invites us to think about the ways in which we have thought and think about food, relations, place, and identity, and to re-imagine what is needed to sustain and pleasure us through difficult times. Richly theoretical yet grounded in pedagogical possibility, this volume invites scholars and practitioners to engage in 'theoretical tasting' as a serious, necessary, and transformative curricular practice."" - Nichole Guillory, Ph.D., Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, Kennesaw State University ""In Tasting Education: Viewing Curriculum, Pedagogy, Learning and Educational Research through the Sense of Taste, co-editors and Laura Jewett and Zulitazhira Hinojosa have assembled a strong, thought-provoking volume that performatively answers the question: what might it mean to taste education? Addressing an important gap across educational literatures, contributors mix contemporary flavors with textural foundations, reimagining critical approaches to theory, method, and practice. From questions of equity and justice to discussions of affect and their effects, Tasting Education deftly underscores what tasting inquiries can do and the significance of the senses."" - Walter S Gershon, Rowan University ""This book calls us to reconfigure relationships with memory and embodiment. Offering an intimate look at how taste opens up prevailing onto-epistemological assumptions to afford an expanded view of pedagogical praxis, the authors explore taste as agentic inquiry in education. Taste, is no longer merely an action one takes, but an invitation to co-create educational experiences as a deeply relational endeavor."" - Maria Wallace, Associate Professor of Science Education, The University of Southern Mississippi