ATHE Annual Conference 2014

CO-CREATION IN TOURISM TEACHING & LEARNING

4th and 5th December at The Royal Society of Edinburgh
(hosted by Edinburgh Napier University)

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers

http://www.athe.org.uk/conference/


This year, our theme is co-creation in tourism teaching and learning. This theme picks up on aspects such as how courses are designed, delivered and experienced by integrating practice into teaching to reduce disconnects between teaching and industry. As such, this might include students, industry partners or other institutions as co-creators.

Our keynote speakers from both industry and higher education will provide us with the opportunity to reflect on our co-creation experiences

We have also introduced a PhD Colloquium to encourage students to present at an established conference, meet potential employers and get constructive feedback in a friendly, supportive environment.

The emphasis at the conference is on encouraging discussion and debate, so we ask you to present for just TEN minutes using no more than 3 PowerPoint slides; there will then be a further 10 minutes for discussion of your paper.

After the conference, each presenting delegate’s slides and abstract will be brought together and published, with an ISSN number. This allows rapid publication and maximum dissemination of presenters’ ideas.

Information: For further information please contact:

We welcome abstracts around the following themes:

1. Co-creators of the curriculum:

Students, industry and other institutions as co-creators of the curriculum, e.g. industrial work placement experiences, consultancy-style projects.

2. Co-creators of the learning experience:

Students, industry and other institutions as co-creators of the learning experience, e.g. field trips, innovative seminars or group work.

3. Co-creation of assessment:

Students, industry and other institutions as co-creators of assessment tasks, e.g. self or peer assessment, assessment by industry partners, co-production of assessment tasks.

4. Co-creation in professional development:

Engagement with industry and other institutions as co-creators of continuing professional development, e.g. Employer Advisory Panels, Strategic Insight Programmes (SIP), Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs), teaching exchanges, staff industry placements.

5. PhD Colloquium: Progress in Tourism & Events

Abstracts should include background, practical implications, methods and/or data sources, and indicative findings of the paper. They should be submitted by email to by 1st October 2014 using the attached abstract form.

All abstracts will be subject to a review process.


ATHE Annual Conference 2014

CO-CREATION IN TOURISM TEACHING & LEARNING

4th and 5th December

at The Royal Society of Edinburgh
(hosted by Edinburgh Napier University)

ABSTRACT FORM

NAME OF AUTHOR(S) / Chris Heape and Janne J. Liburd
JOB TITLE/ INSTITUTION / Special consultant, PhD. and Associate professor, D.Phil
TITLE OF PAPER / Participatory Inquiry for Sustainable Tourism Development
CONFERENCE THEME / Co-creation of the learning experience
AUTHOR’S POSTAL ADDRESS / University of Southern Denmark
Universitetsparken 1, DK-6000 Kolding, Denmark
AUTHOR’S EMAIL / and
ABSTRACT
(+150 words) / Our aim was to initiate an approach to sustainable tourism education that could challenge an overt neo-liberal and management oriented understanding “to educate graduates who are able to work in, and engage in co-creating uncertain futures” (Liburd 2013: 105).
To achieve this, we developed a sustainable tourism development course that engaged both students and faculty alike in a process of inquiry based learning. An inquiry based learning process leverages the participatory nature of communicative interaction between people where learning emerges as thematic patterns of meaning orknowingin the ongoing relating between those involved. This process combines collaborative design processes, methods, tools and interventions with that of participatory inquiry. Situated in that practice asdoingandmaking, the students’ task was to co-design projects with local tourism businesses. Pursuing their inquiry, students learn to engage, direct and reflect on their learning and on the social dimensions of working with others.
Keywords / Participatory inquiry, sustainable tourism development, collaboration
Early acceptance notification required for visa etc? / -
IT/AV presentation requirements / -

Please send abstracts by email to by 1st October 2014.

If you are interested in submitting your paper for possible inclusion in the 2014 Conference Proceedings, full papers should be submitted by 31st January 2015.