Teaching catering: Catering lecturers’ perspectives on students and classrooms

Abstract

This article is the result of a research project on the occupational culture of catering teachers. It focuses on lecturers’ ideas about their subject, students, and interaction in teaching and learning situations. Catering teachers rarely label students except in terms of motivation. The study also shows that caterers emphasise skills and competences, and that they have an instrumental approach to teaching and examinations. © 1992, The Vocational Aspect of Education Ltd.