Improving Education, Skills, and Employment in Tourism by Asian Development Bank;

Author:Asian Development Bank;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Asian Development Bank Institute
Published: 2019-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

3.5 Pedagogy, Curricula, and Teacher Training

Good practice in structuring modern vocational curricula is the following: one-third general education, one-third technical education, and one-third economic and entrepreneurship education.11 In addition to school-based learning, a minimum of about 32 weeks of work-based learning, such as summer internships, is mandatory in post-secondary tourism programs. Besides studying foreign languages in stand-alone subjects, tourism subjects should also be taught in foreign languages. As Russian is fortunately still mastered bilingually by most youth and adults, English as the most spoken second language in the world may be regarded as best-fitting for corridor COEs.

Furthermore, each specialization could also be studied individually in separate courses, which will be offered in addition, and individually to the full 5-year degree. Such courses could be offered on a part-time basis to extend access especially to the working population. A third skills component could be short courses for reskilling and upskilling of tourism skills, such as nomadic culinary arts master classes, new trends in health tourism, or training of ecotourism tour provision. In addition, language certificates could be obtained such as Test of English as a Foreign Language or Cambridge Assessment English.

A typical tourism syllabus of a 5-year program is as follows:

• General education:

Language (national)

English

Second foreign language

Applied information management

Civic education

Natural sciences and food technology

Applied mathematics

• Gastronomy and hoteling:

Nutrition

Cooking

Service, serving, and beverages

Specialization (elective)

Applied project management and work-based learning

• Tourism and economics:

Tourism geology and travel agency operations

Tourism marketing and customer relations management

Arts and culture

Business administration and economics

Accounting and controlling

Law

Hotel and tourism management

Various donors and development partners, especially in the Kyrgyz Republic, have conducted many projects in tourism. Most prominently, the United States Agency for International Development has worked establishing destination management offices all over the country. Also, ADB, Helvetas, GIZ, the World Bank, and other donors have implemented tourism or tourism-related projects in the last 20 years (see Bell 2017; and Choi 2016). With regard to tourism education and S4T, a detailed occupational standard for ecotourism was developed with the support of the EU; and various other training material and manuals were developed in different projects. The present material can be a valuable contribution with more systematically and systemically developing curricula for formal (degrees), but also informal (short courses and professional training) education by COEs. This would literally start with physically collecting all produced material.

In teacher training, a long-term strategic training approach would likely be necessary for corridor COEs. In a first step, ICOE experts could facilitate a training needs analysis. On the basis of the findings, teacher training curricula would be designed and national trainers of trainers identified and qualified by international experts. A regional in-service tourism teacher training department as part of the national in-service teacher training (INSETT) centers would be established to cater sustainably to the continuous training needs of tourism teachers in ABEC. In the long run, a pre-service teacher training (PRESETT) master program should be established at one of the COEs to improve the competencies of future teachers and to reduce the training needs of teachers in-service.

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