Teaching for critical thinking: preparing hospitality and tourism students for careers in the twenty-first century

摘要: ABSTRACTTwenty-first century tourism educators and career-seeking graduates are faced with a host of novel challenges. Given the dynamic, complex nature contemporary industry, students must be equipped relevant twenty-first skills. To address this need, critical thinking is currently being promoted, via university initiatives, as an employable skill. This study assesses extent to which transmitted at large southeastern in United States. Precourse postcourse data were collected from (n = 85) who participated management class, that emphasized case learning, during fall 2014, spring 2015, 2016 semesters. Uncorrected results indicate significant positive increases overall two five sub-domains – inference deduction; however, conservative, corrected there no effects. Recommendations for improving thi...