Food and Cooking Skills Education

Why teach people how to cook?
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-59328-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 333 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment

Food and Cooking Skills Education (FCSE) is a complex mix of policy and practicality, educational theory and pedagogy, classroom and government policy. This book shows how FCSE has been at the centre of a tussle between education and policy for decades.

It reviews how FCSE has grappled with various significant issues of concern that threaten to marginalise it and pose problems for educational practicalities, as expectations are increased, but resources are squeezed. It assesses the debate about the significance and importance of acquiring practical food and cooking skills in a society where the purchase of ready-made food has become commonplace, and public knowledge of where our food comes from is noticeably lacking. This has contributed to the escalating incidence of diet-related diseases and the attendant cost to society, and threatened environmental sustainability. In turn, governments have reacted by proposals to make practical cooking skills a statutory National Curriculum subject as part of the armoury for tackling such costs.

Based on detailed research conducted across England and Wales, as well as comparisons with thirty-five other countries or states, the author makes recommendations for policy to manage this challenge facing contemporary society.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tull, Anita

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung, lebenslanges Lernen
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Kochen, Essen, Trinken
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Curricula: Planung und Entwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Preface 1. Introduction and Overview of the book 2. The history of Food and Cooking Skills Education: England and Wales as a case study 3. Cooking and Cooking Skills – academic perspectives 4. International comparative survey of Food and Cooking Skills Education 5. The rationales for teaching Food and Cooking Skills Education 6. Teaching people how to cook: Arguments for and against

Über Autor(innen)

Anita Tull is a freelance Food and Nutrition Educational author and consultant, based in the UK. She has written several school textbooks on home economics, food and nutrition. She has worked in food and cooking skills education for forty years and has taught primary and secondary pupils and adults in a range of schools, colleges and community initiatives. She has a PhD from the Centre for Food Policy at City, University of London, UK, on which the work covered in this book is based.