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- Title
Theoretical analysis of "Academic credibility and the hospitality curriculum": The image problem.
- Authors
Cole, Babs L.
- Abstract
The article presents a theoretical analysis of academic credibility and the hospitality curriculum in terms of interpretive social theory and then briefly assesses it in terms functionalism, conflict theory and critical theory. The differences in perception regarding liberal arts education and training in "trades" has been noted by various educators. Proponents of liberal arts complain that other, more directly applicable forms of education are somehow less valuable in that they appear not to require students either to think or to learn to think. However, they are unaware that a subject such as economics can and does include values, ethics, concepts and cultural issues. It has been assessed that they do not have enough knowledge about professional education in the hospitality industry. The article concludes that the issue of professional education's image certainly can be argued from the vantage of critical theory, although its not a rightful use of the theory.
- Subjects
HUMANISTIC education; PROFESSIONAL education; VOCATIONAL education; HIGHER education; PROFESSIONAL standards; HOSPITALITY industry; SOCIAL theory; BUSINESS education; CRITICAL theory
- Publication
FIU Hospitality Review, 2005, Vol 23, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0739-7011
- Publication type
Article