Hospitality Management Education
Author: Clayton W Barrows
Containing research and first-hand accounts, Hospitality Management Education offers you insight into qualities and strategies that make an effective and successful educator or employee in the industry. Hospitality Management Education discusses educational trends as a whole over the past decade to give you insight into future directions of hospitality, such as increased specialization, growing numbers of faculty, more funding, and increased academic focus on research and scholarship. From Hospitality Management Education, you'll find methods and suggestions that will make you a more knowledgeable and effective educator in order to help students succeed now and in the future in any aspect of the hospitality field.
Table of Contents:
| About the Editors | ||
| Contributors | ||
| Preface | ||
| Ch. 1 | Introduction to Hospitality Education | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Hospitality As an Occupation | 21 |
| Ch. 3 | Linking Hospitality Management Programs to Industry | 37 |
| Ch. 4 | Quality and Its Assurance in Hospitality Education | 67 |
| Ch. 5 | Professional Preparation | 97 |
| Ch. 6 | The Academic Life of Hospitality Educators | 131 |
| Ch. 7 | Curriculum and Instruction | 149 |
| Ch. 8 | Hospitality Research and Scholarship | 173 |
| Ch. 9 | The Service Responsibility of Hospitality Educators | 193 |
| Ch. 10 | International Perspectives: A Comparison of U.S., U.K., and Australian Hospitality Education and Their University Systems | 213 |
| Ch. 11 | Graduate Programs in Hospitality Management Education | 239 |
| Ch. 12 | The Current State of Hospitality Education | 261 |
| Index | 275 |
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