23.nodaļa: Learning Environment and Study Process as a Tool for Facilitating Leadership Development

The Teacher of the 21st Century: Quality Education for Quality Teaching 2014
Ineta Lūka, Maija Rozīte, Jānis Ēriks Niedrītis

The present formative evaluation study was conducted in 2009-2011 in one of the largest tertiary education institutions of Latvia. It comprised a survey of tourism students, employers, graduates, and students of the Board of the University Students’ Council. This paper addresses the issue of evaluating the tourism curriculum and making improvements in order to create a curriculum that would enable the development of knowledgeable, innovative, creative specialists who are pro-active leaders and are able to efficiently manage their own and other employees’ work and can successfully operate in the century of innovation.

Keywords
tourism education, learning environment, leadership, power distance, development

Lūka, I., Rozīte, M., Niedrītis, J. 23.nodaļa: Learning Environment and Study Process as a Tool for Facilitating Leadership Development. In: The Teacher of the 21st Century: Quality Education for Quality Teaching. L.Daniela, I.Lūka, L.Rutka, I.Žogla ed. Cambridge: Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. pp.297-313. ISBN 9781443856126.

Publication language
English (en)