Curriculum planning for tourism education: from theory to practice
Curriculum planning for tourism education: from theory to practice
Cooper, C.
Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism 2(1): 19-39
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 1531-3220
DOI: 10.1300/j172v02n01_02
Tourism education has grown rapidly in the last quarter of the 20th century. However, the relative youth of the subject area renders the educator's task of developing a curriculum difficult in comparison to more established fields. Educational theory provides a range of approaches to assist in this task, not only in terms of models of the curriculum, but also in terms of the relationship between the curriculum and its social and economic context.