Graduation Year
2020
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree
Ed.D.
Degree Name
Doctor of Education (Ed.D.)
Degree Granting Department
Curriculum and Instruction
Major Professor
Stephen Thornton, Ph.D.
Co-Major Professor
Howard Johnston, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Bárbara Cruz, Ed.D.
Committee Member
Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Ph.D.
Keywords
Connoisseurship, Curriculum, Eisner, Evaluation, Journalism
Abstract
The use of food in college curriculum is unique in its ability to create lasting impact because of the keen interest millennial and Generation Z students have in what they eat and drink. Studying media with food at its core is an underutilized mechanism to show how food intersects with the lives of all people thus encouraging students to look beyond their own experiences to consider the wider society. A program evaluation of 10 semesters of food writing and food media courses at a Florida public university reveals the ways in which students make deeper connections to culture and current events, plus gain insight into this genre of journalism. The instructor and developer of the curriculum, and the author of this study, is a retired journalist with a food writing specialty. Situated in Eisner’s educational criticism and connoisseurship methodology, the study discovers the ways that her expertise largely facilitates but occasionally hinders learning. It is not only the students who experience untaught lessons, but an open-minded professor too.
Scholar Commons Citation
Keeler, Janet K., "Feasting on Words: What University Students Learn When They Study Food Writing and Food Media" (2020). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/8553
