- Title
- Decolonising tourism education through Indigenisation: responsive efforts to the corporate social responsibility of Australian universities
- Creator
- Young, Tamara; Maguire, Amy
- Relation
- Think Tank XVI: Corporate Responsibility in Tourism - Standards, Practices and Policies. Think Tank Papers & Presentations (Berlin, Germany 12-15 July, 2016)
- Relation
- http://www.besteducationnetwork.org/14593
- Publisher
- BESTEN Think Tank XVI Conference Proceedings
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Businesses committed to corporate social responsibility (CSR) are guided by policy that focuses on the integration of social and environmental concerns in all aspects of business strategy and practice (Lund-Durlacher, 2015). This paper considers CSR in the context of education for sustainability in tourism. Our focus is on higher education institutions, and their obligation to produce graduates with a strong and developed sense of knowing about social responsibility, equity and justice. One way to achieve these goals is through Indigenised curricula. A fundamental goal of Indigenised curricula is to increase education participation of Indigenous people. Indigenised curricula can also develop skills, knowledges and attitudes that enable all students to contribute to a multi-cultural society, with particular cultural sensitivity to Indigenous experiences. These considerations are pertinent in tourism education to ensure that students have the critical and integrative knowledge to contribute to the sustainable development of tourism. Given the global prevalence of Indigenous tourism, curricula that embeds Indigenous ways of knowing (including Indigenous perspectives on Indigenous rights and self-determination) is critical for student understandings of the issues and tensions implicit in the development of Indigenous tourism.
- Subject
- tourism education; Indigenous perspectives; Indigenous tourism; social responsibility
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1343542
- Identifier
- uon:29200
- Language
- eng
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