This book elaborates upon, critiques and discusses 21st-century approaches to scholarship and research in the food, tourism, hospitality, and events trades and applied professions, using case examples of innovative practice. The specific field considered in this book is also placed against the backdrop of the larger question of how universities and other institutions of higher learning are evolving and addressing the new relationships between research, scholarship and teaching.
Explores the vocational/professional nexus in the fields of study of food, tourism, hospitality and events Provides innovative, creative, and practical approaches to research and scholarship in this field Demonstrates a beneficial symbiotic relationship between vocational and professional education
Sue Beeton
tourism hospitality events management qualitative research applied research vocational training vocational scholarship professional scholarship student-centred learning research-informed teaching participatory action research trade qualification craft skills applied knowledge