tasting EDUCATION (Call for proposals)

What does education taste like? This book invites authors to write about taste as a sense, and/or the sense of taste, as it plays out in the thinking and doing of curriculum, pedagogy, learning, leadership, and educational research. This book takes up taste as an embodied set of meanings that are sensuous, pragmatic, and political: as a key part of the sensorium, as a way of making meaning of food or through food, as a flavor, or as an engagement with the sensuousity of the olfactory: the nose, the mouth, the tongue. In another sense, taste can refer to the socially and culturally sanctioned use of subjective, sensory evidence to assign aesthetic value. In this sense, taste is situated as central to the politic of the senses in ways that connect the senses to modes of social and cultural production (Farquar, 2020). Taste, then, also becomes a way of resisting, challenging, and reimagining such modes as they play themselves out in educational spaces and reveal collective commitments that include shared pleasure alongside political and pedagogical commitments (Siniscalchi, 2018). This book offers a space for deeper conversations around taste in classrooms, schools, universities, and extracurricular spaces of research: restaurants, kitchens, gardens, and other tasty places. We also seek chapters that consider the way taste is being used to dismantle oppression in these spaces. The slow-food movement argues that “taste and pleasure” must return to the table (Siniscalchi, 2018). We invite submissions that bring the pleasure and problematics of taste to the table of educational practice and research as well. Toward these ends, we envision the book as a buffet of multiple theoretical perspectives drawing from an elegant sufficiency of approaches to inquiry such as autobiographical, autoethnographic, ethnographic, phenomenological, hermeneutic, case-study, food-studies, action research, arts-based, oral-history, and theoretical as well as reflections on classroom practice and the lived curriculum of taste.    

Proposals

Chapter proposals should be:

• 500-1000 words
• Aligned with the scope of the project.
• Formatted to APA 7th Edition.

Proposed Timeline: 

• November 9, 2024-March 1, 2025: Call for Chapter Proposals 
• March 2025: Finalization of Chapters/Authors List 
• March 2025-July 2025: Chapter Writing 
• June 16, 2025: Draft Chapters Due to Editors 
• June 30, 2025: Editor Feedback Returned to Authors 
• July 15, 2025: Final Chapters Due 
• July 30, 2025: Submission of Completed Manuscript to MEP 

Submit Proposal

Use the link below to access the submission form:

https://forms.gle/NLSXkeZb8jjT9J2w5

Under Contract with Myers Education Press as part of Culinary Canvas: A Series on Integrating the Arts and Food into Higher Education Series, Editors: T. Jameson Brewer & Cleveland Hayes