TOWARDS A COMPLEXITY STUDENT-CENTERED APPROACH TO THE TEACHING OF HOSPITALITY BUSINESS-RELATED COURSES ACROSS UNIVERSITIES
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2016
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International Journal of Arts and Entrepreneurship.
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Most universities and colleges are still failing to produce the career-focused graduates
who are ready to be interactively transformed into the needed human resources for the job
market. This study focused on exploring the student-centered teaching approach through the
right theories that address the industry’s evolving complexities.
A qualitative methodology which is founded in the interpretivist philosophy was used in
order to inductively construct out the concepts hence variables that can explain the shift towards
the complexity student-centered teaching approach. The resulting findings generally showed that
the complexity student-centered teaching approach benefits the different hospitality business
(industry) stakeholders.
The findings revealed the practical transformational learning and career-focus benefits,
the pedagogical reasons for increased complexity between the internal and external learning
ecosystems, and the needed improvements for the teaching approach’s continuous success.
In conclusion, the views and opinions of the students, lecturers and other key
stakeholders were generally positive towards the complexity student-centered teaching approach
in both case studies. Their positivity was partly revealed in terms of the perceived mutually
benefits that they experienced and/or observed in line with the pedagogical, career-orientation
and complexity-readiness objectives under the respective hospitality business-related courses.
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Mutumba, A., Kibirango, M. (2016). Towards a Complexity Student-centered Approach to the Teaching of Hospitality Business-related Courses across Universities. International Journal of Arts and Entrepreneurship. Vol. 5 (1). 70 - 96