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Food Edu-Care In The Primary Curriculum: A Collaborative Case Study In An Inner City Deis Gaelscoil, Caroline Mcgowan

Theses, Doctoral

This applied case study explored the role of food education and its potential to nurture the lives of children who may experience disadvantage socially, culturally and economically. The research concedes at the outset that the role of ‘food’ in education is complex, that schools do not deal with curriculum matters alone but also with social justice policy issues, and that school-based ‘food poverty’ policy interventions to date are broadly motivated by nutritional concerns.

The research was informed by a critical pedagogy perspective using a collaborative enquiry design focused on individual and collective agency at the school level. Multiple theoretical and …

The Social Meaning Of Claret In The Lives Of Georgian Ireland's Elite, 1714-1837, Tara Mcconnell

Theses, Doctoral

This thesis argues that a specific alcoholic beverage—claret, the red wine of Bordeaux—had unparalleled social meaning in the lives of Georgian Ireland’s elite. Ireland’s historical wine trade with Bordeaux has attracted much scholarly attention, as has the topic of alcohol consumption in general by the island’s inhabitants in the long eighteenth century. This research draws on a wide range of period sources to establish the social meanings and gastronomic pre-eminence of claret in elite society and it discusses numerous factors that led to claret achieving iconic status amongst Georgian Ireland’s wine bibbers. There is no evidence of viticulture in Ireland’s …

A Phenomenology Of Fitness From Consumption To Virtuous Production, Ross Neville

Theses, Doctoral

Although our imagination as policy-makers, legislators, academics, and members of the general public has been captured by the promise of fitness, what is meant by it and whether or not its individualising emphasis is a good thing is much less clear. In response to this question of cultural significance, this thesis provides a phenomenology of fitness. It does so in two important senses and in the context of two distinct parts.
The first half of this thesis (Chapters One and Two) is given to the task of bracketing the natural attitude with respect to fitness; that is, contextualising the question …