Natural Resource Management Education throughout Departments of Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Science for a Specific American University and the Learning Process of Asian Students: Based on Participant Observations and In-depth Interviews

Kim, Songyi; Youngeun Kang

doi:10.17086/JTS.2018.42.1.169.195

This study investigates natural resource management education and the learning process of Asian graduate students in the Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences (RPTS) for a specific American university. There was a course offered during the autumn, 2016 semester at RPTS, which covered the topic of natural resource preservation in six classes spanning three weeks. During the six classes, participant observation was conducted. Both before and after each of the six classes, in-depth interviews with four Asian graduate students and two American graduate students were conducted. The six classes covered the philosophy and history of natural resource management and also conflicts between development and preservation in the United States. These objectives were achieved through literature reviews, class discussions, and diverse activities. Asian students were more concerned with degradation of national natural resources due to various developments in their home countries. Through the course, they realized that their home countries should research and determine their own concept, philosophy, and history of natural resources. Then, they should build their own natural resource identity based on social consensus. They also desired to apply their learned knowledge from the course to education programs and policies in their home countries to realize sustainable tourism. As tourism often causes damage to natural resources in South Korea and other Asian countries, their tourism education need to focus more on natural resource management, especially its theoretical and philosophical foundations.

Citation status

KCI Citation Counts (0)
REFERENCES (65)
열림/닫힘 버튼
* 2021년 이후 발행 논문의 참고문헌은 현재 구축 중입니다.

[journal] 고미영 / 2013 / Tourism Curriculum Improvement for Competence Development of Tourism Human Resource / 관광연구논총 / 관광연구소 25(2) : 111~127

[report] 국립공원관리공단 / 2013 / 국립공원 자원을 활용한자연체험 환경교육 활성화 방안 연구

[journal] 김병욱 / 2010 / Clarification of the Phenomenological Basic and Methodological Concepts and Searching for Alternative Methods for Improving Acceptability of Phenomenological Research Findings / 교육사회학연구 / 한국교육사회학회 20(1) : 25~44 / 10.32465/ksocio.2010.20.1.002

[journal] 김옥희 / 2016 / The Relationship of Visitor’s Attitudes toward Anti-environmental Behavior at a Tourist Attraction, Environmentally Friendly Perception, and Perceived Values of a National Park : An Exploratory Study on a National Park as a Public Good for Its Sustainability / 동북아관광연구 / 동북아관광학회 12(3) : 185~204

[journal] 김정아 / 2011 / A study of tourism-related major students' personality and preferred teaching methods relationship: In terms of mediating effects of deep approaches to learning / 관광학연구 / 한국관광학회 35(4) : 317~339

[journal] 김진동 / 2005 / College Students Environmental Perspective and Behavior: Based on Students Enrolling in Tourism Courses / 관광학연구 / 한국관광학회 28(4) : 357~375

[journal] 김태헌 / 2016 / Fair Tourism System for Sustainable Tourism and the Role of Tourism Policy: An Analysis of Bukchon Hanok Village in Seoul / 동북아관광연구 / 동북아관광학회 12(2) : 71~90

[journal] 김형철 / 2013 / The Characteristics of Tourism Management Curriculums at Korean University / 관광레저연구 / (사)한국관광레저학회 25(6) : 211~229

[journal] 민웅기 / 2015 / The Relations of Knowledge on Climate Change and Purchase Intention of Environment-friendly Tourism Products / 관광학연구 / 한국관광학회 39(9) : 91~111 / http://dx.doi.org/10.17086/JTS.2015.39.9.91.111

[book] 박태윤 / 2001 / 환경교육학개론 / 교육과학사

[journal] 서헌 / 2013 / A Study on the Perception of Low Carbon and Eco-friendly Tour Programs Corresponding to the World-wide Climate Changes / 관광레저연구 / (사)한국관광레저학회 25(7) : 39~54

[journal] 손해식 / 2005 / A Study on the Tourism-related Department Curriculum Model in Korea / 관광연구 / 대한관광경영학회 20(1) : 193~205

[journal] 손호기 / 2010 / A study on conservative Value Evaluation for landscape of the Rural Tourism villages / 농촌지도와 개발 / 한국농촌지도학회 17(4) : 897~918

[journal] 신지혜 / 2016 / A Qualitative Study on the Teaching Experience ofEnvironmental Education Lecturers in University / 환경교육 / 한국환경교육학회 29(2) : 153~172 / http://gx.doi.org/10.17965/kjee.2016.29.2.153

[journal] 심원섭 / 2016 / A Dilemma of Tourism Development and Environment Conservation over the Permission Policy of Cable Cars Construction in National Park: Focusing on the Frame Collision of Utilitarianism and Protected Values / 관광학연구 / 한국관광학회 40(1) : 111~132 / http://dx.doi.org/10.17086/JTS.2016.40.1.111.132

[journal] 오미숙 / 2010 / The Characteristics of Tourism Management Curriculumsat Korean Universities / 관광학연구 / 한국관광학회 34(5) : 111~130

[journal] 유혜령 / 2005 / Phenomenological Approaches in Researching the Childhood Education: Its History and Future / 교육인류학연구 / 한국교육인류학회 8(1) : 57~90

[journal] 윤지환 / 1998 / 관광관련학과 대학생의 자연환경에 대한 지식과 태도분석 : 한국과 미국 대학생을 중심으로 / 관광학연구 22(2) : 140~145

[journal] 이정자 / 2014 / 관광과 환경적인 지속가능대안 / 지속가능연구 5(3) : 23~35

[journal] 전효재 / 2017 / A Study on the Health of the Tourism Industry based on a Business Ecosystem / 관광학연구 / 한국관광학회 41(5) : 129~140 / http://dx.doi.org/10.17086/JTS.2017.41.5.129.140

[journal] 정승훈 / 2014 / Residents’ Perceptions of Tourism Impacts and Support for Sustainable Tourism Development in Accordance with the Registration of Jeju Batdam Agricultural System as Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) / 관광연구저널 / 한국관광연구학회 28(11) : 5~23

[journal] 최영민 / 2010 / A Study on the Tourism Educators' Recognition on the Curriculums / 대한경영학회지 / 대한경영학회 23(1) : 269~286

[journal] Ajzen, I. / 1991 / The theory of planned behavior / Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Process 50 : 179~211

[journal] Barron, P. / 2002 / Issues surrounding Asian students hospitality management in Australia: A literature review regarding the paradox of Asian learner / Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism 2(3/4) : 23~45

[book] Barry, J. / 2002 / International encyclopedia of environmental politics / Routledge

[journal] Bergman, B. G. / 2016 / Assessing impacts of locally designed environmental education projects on students’ environmental attitudes, awareness, and intention to act / Environmental Education Research 22(4) : 480~503

[book] Bloom, B. S. / 1956 / Cognitive Domain / McKay

[journal] Cecil, A. / 2012 / The process of developing a competency-based academic curriculum in tourism management / Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism 12 : 129~145

[journal] Chen, C. / 2009 / Students’ perspectives of environmental education needs in the hospitality curricula / Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education 21(2) : 41~47

[journal] Chiu, Y. C. J. / 2009 / Facilitating Asian students’critical thinking in online discussions / British Journal of Education Technology 40(1) : 42~57

[book] Cronon, W. / 1995 / Uncommon ground: Rethinking the human place in nature / W. W. Norton & Co

[book] De George, R. T. / 1989 / Western and Chinese philosophy on man and nature / University Press of America

[journal] Douglass, B. / 1985 / Heuristic Inquiry : The internal search to know / Journal of Humanistic Psychology 25(3) : 39~55

[journal] Fidgeon, P. R. / 2010 / Tourism education and curriculum design: A time for consolidation and review / Tourism Management 31(6) : 699~723

[book] Glaser, B. G. / 1967 / The discovery of grounded theory : Strategies for qualitative research / Publishing Company

[journal] Gössling, S. / 2015 / Assessing tourism's global environmental impact 1900-2050 / Journal of Sustainable Tourism 23(5) : 639~659

[book] Harris, E. L. / 1997 / Solo faces / Outside : 106~110

[journal] Hercock, M. / 1999 / The impacts of recreation and tourism in the remote North Kimberly region of Western Australia / The Environmentalist 19(3) : 259~275

[book] Hesse-Biber, S. N. / 2017 / The practice of qualitative research (3rd Ed.) / Sage

[journal] Huang, R. / 2005 / Chinese international students’perceptions of the problem-based learning experience / The Journal of Hospitality Leisure Sport and Tourism 4(2) : 36~43

[journal] Hungerford, H. R. / 1990 / Changing learner behavior through environmental education / The Journal of Environmental Education 21(3) : 257~270

[journal] Jamal, T. B. / 2004 / Resisting rationalisation in the natural and academic life-world: Critical tourism research or hermeneutic charity / Current Issues in Tourism 7(1) : 1~19

[report] Johnson, B. / 2015 / Examining the relationship between environmental attitudes and behaviour in education programmes / Sociální Studia : 97~111

[journal] Johnson, C. Y. / 2004 / African-American wildland memories / Environmental Ethics 26 : 57~75

[journal] Lee, G. / 2009 / Speaking up: Six Korean students’oral participation in class discussions in US graduate seminars / English for Specific Purposes 28 : 142~156

[journal] Liberman, K. / 1994 / Asian student perspectives on American university instruction / International Journal of Intercultural Relations 18(2) : 173~192

[journal] Liu, J. / 2002 / Negotiating silence in american classrooms : Three chinese cases / Language and Intercultural Communication 2(1) : 37~54

[book] Louv, R. / 2005 / Last child in the woods / Algonquin Books

[book] Marton, F. / 1997 / Learning and awareness / L. Erlbaum Associates

[book] Marshall, C. / 1995 / Designing qualitative research (2nd Ed.) / Sage

[journal] McAvoy, L. / 2002 / American indians, place meanings and the old/new west / Journal of Leisure Research 34(4) : 383~396

[journal] Mckercher, B. / 2013 / Attitudes of tourism students to the environment and climate change / Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research 18(1–2) : 108~143

[journal] Mckercher, B. / 2014 / Is the hospitality and tourism curriculum effective in teaching personal social responsibility / Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research 38(4) : 431~462

[book] Nash, R. F. / 2014 / The wilderness and the american mind (5th Ed) / Yale University

[book] Nelson, M. P. / 2008 / The wilderness debate rages on: Continuing the great new wilderness debate. (Ed) / University of Georgia Press

[journal] Øian, H. / 2013 / Wilderness tourism and the moralities of commitment : Hunting and angling as modes of engaging with the natures and animals of rural landscapes in Norway / Journal of Rural Studies 32 : 177~185

[journal] Palmer, Y. M. / 2016 / Student to scholar : Learning experiences of international students / Journal of International Students 6(1) : 216~240

[book] Patton, M. Q. / 2002 / Qualitative research and evaluation methods / Sage

[journal] Pooley, J. A. / 2000 / Environmental education and attitudes : Emotional and beliefs are what is needed / Environment and Behavior 32(5) : 711~723

[journal] Rankin, B. L. / 2015 / Tourism and recreation listed as a threat for a wide diversity of vascular plants : A continental scale review / Journal of Environmental Management 154 : 293~298

[journal] Sarkar, S. / 1999 / Wilderness preservation and biodiversity conservation : Keeping divergent goals distinct / BioScience 49(5) : 405~412

[journal] Sharik, T. L. / 2015 / Undergraduate enrollment in U.S. natural resource academic programs: Trends, drivers, and implications for the future of the profession / Journal of Forestry 113(6) : 538~551

[other] The WILD Foundation / 2009 / What is a wilderness area

[other] The World Bank / 2017 / World development indicator:Travel and tourism

[book] UNWTO / 2016 / Tourism highlights 2016 edition

KJC Korea
Journal Central

Statistics

Tools

Sharing

Issue List

Citation status