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Vocational education input for a sustainable hospitality industry
Choy, Monica Wai Chun Yeung, Alexander Seshing
Choy, Monica Wai Chun
Yeung, Alexander Seshing
Abstract
Higher education institutions that provide vocational education (VE) programs have the role of providing vocational training for a lifelong career. Higher education students in hospitality programs in Hong Kong were surveyed (N = 362). Structural equation modelling found that among VE’s competence and affect inputs, students’ affect toward the discipline was the strongest driver of vocational resilience and lifelong career choice, which are presumably the main contributors of the industry’s sustainability. To supply a continual flow of competent and passionate workers who are resilient and willing to take the vocation as a lifelong career so as to sustain a flourishing hospitality industry, higher education providers should place more emphasis on nurturing students’ affective self-concept in addition to the traditional inputs of skills and knowledge in their VE programs.
Keywords
higher education, vocational education, self-concept, resilience, hospitality and tourism
Date
2024
Type
Book chapter
Journal
Book
Engaged learning and innovative teaching in higher education : Digital technology, professional competence, and teaching pedagogies, lecture notes in educational Technology
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Issue
Page Range
91-107
Article Number
ACU Department
Institute for Positive Psychology and Education
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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