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The presence of history in South African tourism textbooks
Thesis (PhD (History and Tourism Education))--University of Pretoria, 2024.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/100887 The presence of history in South African tourism textbooks Wassermann, Johannes Michiel Priya.govender020@gmail.com Van der Merwe, Clinton Govender, Priantha UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) History Tourism Textbooks Interdisciplinary Thesis (PhD (History and Tourism Education))--University of Pretoria, 2024. Tourism education is a fundamental component of the tourism industry that helps develop a skilled workforce capable of addressing the industry's complexities. The diverse career opportunities in the tourism industry are a direct result of interdisciplinary tourism education. This interdisciplinary relationship is shared between history, geography, business studies, economics and philosophy, but this research study aims to ascertain how history manifests in Tourism education. Tourism Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statements textbooks were analysed qualitatively using a five-dimensional model. The first dimension served to understand the historical genre and the genre volume manifested in the Tourism textbooks. The second dimension categorised historical content according to 11 common historical branches (political history, social history, economic history, religious history, diplomatic history, art history, food history, science and medicine history, cultural history, women’s history, and environmental history). The third dimension adopted Kukard’s purposes of history education to explore the relationship that history shares with tourism education. These purposes served to understand if history teaches a national story (memory history) if history develops a learner’s analytical thinking and skills (analytical history), and if history helps learners participate in society (critical history). The fourth dimension discloses which other subjects are amalgamated in the history content. The fifth dimension considers any other history that may emerge. An academic and civic identity was designed and developed. The findings from these identities argue that history in Tourism differs radically from history in History education. Tourism history is a different form of history that serves to amplify travelling in a diverse cultural setting and beautify icons/attractions by promoting the picture-perfect site for travelling – it is mostly about memories as in memory history. Tourism educators understand the purpose of history in tourism education. The trends and findings from this study can improve teaching methodologies and help educators understand tourism textbooks from diverse perspectives. For textbook researchers, the findings open the door to similar explorations within other disciplines in Tourism textbooks within the interdisciplinary framework. UP Bursary Humanities Education PhD (History and Tourism Education) Unrestricted Faculty of Education SDG-04: Quality Education 2025-02-14T07:25:48Z 2025-02-14T07:25:48Z 2025-04 2024-12 Thesis * A2025 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/100887 https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.28409522 en © 2023 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) History Tourism Textbooks Interdisciplinary The presence of history in South African tourism textbooks |
| title | The presence of history in South African tourism textbooks |
| title_full | The presence of history in South African tourism textbooks |
| title_fullStr | The presence of history in South African tourism textbooks |
| title_full_unstemmed | The presence of history in South African tourism textbooks |
| title_short | The presence of history in South African tourism textbooks |
| title_sort | presence of history in south african tourism textbooks |
| topic | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) History Tourism Textbooks Interdisciplinary |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/100887 https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.28409522 |