RESOURCES
RESOURCES: PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS
| Author : | Tamara Young & Amy Maguire |
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| School/Work Place : | The University of Newcastle Australia |
| Contact : | tamara.young@newcastle.edu.au |
| Year : | 2016 |
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.
