International Perspective: Laotians and Canadians Learning Together to Understand the Sustainability of Tourism in Laos

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International Perspective Laotians and Canadians
Learning Together to Understand the
Sustainability of Tourism in Laos
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Overview

• University of Guelph
• The Beginning Assumptions
• Service Learning/Problem Based Learning
• Bridging the Gap Sustainability is in the Hands
  of the Youth

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University of Guelph

• College of Management and Economics
• Leaders for a Sustainable World
• Transformational Leadership
• Community Involvement/Partnerships
• Research that Counts

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Sustainable Development and Ecotourism

• Sustainable development
• That which meets the needs of the current
  generation without jeopardizing the capacity of
  future generations to satisfy their own needs.
  (World Commission on Environment and Development,
  1987)

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The Beginning Assumptions
The Essential Learning Outcomes

• Knowledge of Human Cultures and the Physical and
  Natural World
• Focused by engagement with big questions, both
  contemporary and enduring
• Intellectual and Practical Skills
• Progressively more challenging problems,
  projects, and standards for performance

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The Beginning Assumptions
The Essential Learning Outcomes

• Personal and Social Responsibility
• Anchored through active involvement with diverse
  communities and real-world challenges
• Integrative Learning
• Demonstrated through the application of
  knowledge, skills, and responsibilities to new
  settings and complex problems
• (AACSB)

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Education for Sustainable Development

• Promote and improve basic education
• Reorient existing education programmes to address
  sustainable development
• Develop public awareness and understanding of
  sustainability
• Provide training

United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO)
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Problem-Based Learning

• Problem-based learning is one construct of
  curriculum design and a teaching/learning
  strategy.
• PBL develops higher order thinking and
  disciplinary knowledge bases and skills.
• PBL places students in the active role of
  problem-solvers and confronts students with real
  world situations

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Problem-Based Learning

• PBL fosters critical thinking and
  problem-solving skills in students
• The responsibility for learning rests with the
  learner, rather than the teacher
• PBL increases the relevance of what is learned,
  and subsequently results in greater motivation
  and engagement of students

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Service Learning

• Service learning improves academic achievement
• Service learning is a powerful educational
  experience where interests, information, values
  and beliefs are formed and action results across
  a variety of disciplines
• Students gain a sense of social responsibility
  essential for future leaders

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Service Learning

• Service learning has a positive impact on
  students personal, social and cognitive
  outcomes
• Service learning extends student learning beyond
  the classroom
• Service learning enhances students beliefs in
  their personal efficacy and is a predictor in
  their professional development

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Skills or Content?

• Generic Skills
• critical thinking, problem solving,
  meta-cognition (thinking about our own thinking
  processes), ethics, communication, information
  literacy and lifelong learning. (Central
  Queensland University, 2002)

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Competency Development
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Competency Development

• The CARE (2009) Competency Development Planning
• designed to help individuals identify development
  activities to assist them in building their
  competencies.
• develops each of the competencies that are
  critical for all employment but particularly
  critical to the hospitality industry.

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Competency Development

• Effective leadership begins with key competencies
  and interpersonal behaviours.
• At the core values-based competencies of
  diversity, excellence, integrity and respect.
• Other competencies under the headings of Managing
  Self, Leading Change, Building and Nurturing
  Relationships and Working with Others to Achieve
  Results

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Lifelong Learning A Key to Sustainability
Final Thoughts
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Thank You