Gita Berg
Lecturer at Department of food studies, nutrition and dietetics
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 23 15
- Fax:
- +46 18 471 22 61
- E-mail:
- gita.berg@ikv.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- BMC
Husargatan 3
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 560
751 22 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
My doctoral project explores teaching and learning about food and health in Home- and consumer studies (HCS). With a pragmatist approach and through the use of qualitative research methods such as observations and stimulated recall-interviews, I study meaning making processes in the HCS-classroom.
I am a part of UpRiSE - Uppsala Research School in Subject Education
Main supervisor: Prof. Ylva Mattsson Sydner
Supervisors: Eva Lundqvist
Biography
I am a registered dietitian, upper secondary school teacher and currently a PhD student focusing on home and consumer studies education. My research interests concern food in a learning context, food literacy and critical perspectives on health education.
Academic degrees and titles:
B.S. Dietetics (Uppsala University)
M.S. Food Science and Nutrition (Uppsala University)
B.S. Upper Secondary Education (Stockholm University)
B.A. Dance Pedagogy (Stockholm University of the arts)
Registered Dietitian (leg. dietist)
Registered Teacher, upper secondary school (leg. lärare)
Publications
Recent publications
- Beyond the plate (2024)
- “You fuel the car with gas, you fuel the body with food” – Educational functions of food for health in home and consumer studies (2024)
- Useful but overused? The “plate model” as a food educational tool in home economics (2024)
- Aesthetic Values in Home and Consumer Studies (2023)
- "You fuel the car with gas, you fuel the body with food" (2022)
All publications
Articles
- “You fuel the car with gas, you fuel the body with food” – Educational functions of food for health in home and consumer studies (2024)
- Useful but overused? The “plate model” as a food educational tool in home economics (2024)
- Aesthetic Values in Home and Consumer Studies (2023)
- Aesthetic judgments and meaning-making during cooking in Home and Consumer Studies (2019)
Books
Conferences
- "You fuel the car with gas, you fuel the body with food" (2022)
- "Bilen tankar du med bensin, kroppen tankar du med mat" (2022)
- Sustainable Home Economics Teacher Education in Pandemic Times (2022)
- "Vi har fått syn på hur viktig den praktiska kunskapen är” (2021)
- Students’ meaning-making during formalized cooking in Swedish home- and consumer studies (2019)
- Students´ Encounters during Formalized Cooking Practices in Home‐ and Consumer Studies (2018)
- Literacy till lunch (2018)