Behind the Scenes
Teaching the Sociology of Tourism Abroad
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11062028 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lissette Aliaga-Linares (0000-0003-1098-0949, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE, USA, corresponding author), Troy Romero (University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE, USA) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 26-40 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Teaching Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-055X • E-ISSN: 1939-862X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0092055x221104835 |
| OpenAlex | W4282829969 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
International travel has long been considered a key pedagogical strategy for global learning. Yet very little is known about whether study-abroad experiences increase students’ awareness of the impact of tourism as a global phenomenon. In this study, we assessed students’ learning through a content analysis of their journals and final essays from a short-term study-abroad course that used key concepts from the sociology of tourism to explore the impact of tourism in a developing country. Findings demonstrate how thinking sociologically about travel and tourism enabled students to look “behind the scenes,” fostered critical-thinking skills, helped in their self-assessment of ethnocentrism, and promoted a sense of global responsibility. We also discuss areas that merit further pedagogical attention, particularly when students struggle to unlearn preconceived ideas about poverty and inequality or resort to overgeneralizations when thinking comparatively
Critical thinking · Ethnocentrism · Global education · Pedagogy · Political science · Poverty · Social science · Sociology · Study abroad · Tourism · Transformative learning · Global Education and Multiculturalism · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
Tourism
Internationalization at Home Alternatives to Study Abroad
Large-Scale Assessment of Student Attitudes after a Short-Term Study Abroad Program
The Educational Benefits of Travel Experiences
Economies of Signs and Space
Key Concepts in Tourist Studies
The Tourist Gaze 3.0
Tourism and Sustainable Development
Commodification, culture and tourism
Study abroad for global engagement
Long‐term effects of international educational youth exchange
Do ‘global citizens’ need the parochial cultural other? Discourse of immersion in study abroad and learning-by-doing
Authenticity and commoditization in tourism
Beyond “Just Being There”
Internationalizing the Curriculum
Teaching Sociology in an Overseas Program
Teaching Urban Sociology and Urban Sustainability on Two Feet, Two Wheels, and in Three Cities
Pivot Points
Assessing Global Learning in Short-term Study Abroad
Bringing “Internationalization at Home” Opportunities to Community Colleges
Taking a Critical Pedagogical Look at Travel-Study Abroad
Teaching Sociology in an International Setting
Beyond the Field Trip
Gender Utopias?”
The sociological imagination
The tourist
Guiding Practices
"The Tourist Gaze "Revisited
The 'Consumption' of Tourism
Either Here or There
Staged Authenticity
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |