| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 觀光暨休閒遊憩學系 === 99 === In recent years, government of Taiwan has tried very hard to promote tourism, and the industry is growing vigorously here as well as in other countries. Under such world trends, what capabilities citizens should have in order to be competent for being either a tourist or a host? In consideration that education is the vital key to enhance individual’s cognition and ability, the current research intends to introduce “national tourism education” into the curriculum of national compulsory education. The purpose is to cultivate citizens’ basic knowledge of tourism and further to implement the development of “national tourism education”. The current study focused on junior high school students in nine-year integrated curriculum and intended to understand the scope and the contents of those basic competences of the “national tourism education”.
Previous research on this area was very limited; the current study is an initial exploratory one. With semi-structured interviews, a total of twenty-nine interviewees, including experts in different fields and various stakeholders were interviewed. In this study, content-analysis was also used to analyze subjects of textbooks at first, second and third grade of junior high school. Finally, the analysis of interviews and contents of textbook were integrated together in order to understand the distribution of topics related to the “national tourism education” in the texts.
The results showed that “national tourism education” should be introduced from elementary school level. It is not only a basic attainment and knowledge toward tourism that could be nourished in daily lives, but also a fundamental education for every citizen. However, the results indicated that contents directly related to tourism, such as “to understand what tourist’s activities means to everyone on individual, societal and cultural perspectives” and “to understand tourism related industries in fundamental travel activities”, etc. were seldom found in the textbooks.
Results summed up from interviews indicated nineteen negative tourists behaviors, twenty-two basic competence of “national tourism education”, nine potential obstacles while promoting “national tourism education”. The current study connected the contents of “national tourism education” to the “ten core competence” of nine-year integrated curriculum and proposed guidelines for future implementation. Suggestions for future research were presented in the end.
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