Google Earth projects (or tours) can increase student engagement with geographic knowledge. This is exemplified by the curriculum in Geography 3900 Japan, in which students have worked in groups to create tours. It is also exemplified by a fourth year directed studies project where the student created elementary and secondary versions of regional geography courses…
Tourism is a global activity yet practiced, experience, performed and taught in local places. At TRU, the Tourism Department has always been deeply embedded in the local community. At the same time, Tourism also always looks outward, aware of the global challenges the tourism industry faces and what that might mean for our students. In…
Description: I read the TRU’s 2025-2035 Strategic Internationalization Plan, which outlines five goals. I see my work with TRU and EDSW aligns with all of these goals, but more impactfully with goal number five: To lead the way in cultivating a culture of community-mindedness with a global conscience by sharing educational practices, exchanging knowledge worldwide,…
Highlighting how the “lightbulb” moments from a culturally integrative process may assist in the development of students to become community minded and globally conscious through empowerment and experiential learning.
The Adventure Studies Department has facilitated internationalization for more than three decades through capstone expeditions in the Adventure Guide Diploma and International Field Schools in the Bachelor of Tourism Management degree. This poster will celebrate the accomplishments of students and faculty on international expeditions and will highlight the key pedagogical principles that support and guide…
This poster presentation will showcase the International Field School (IFS) Thailand on Microorganisms, Human Impacts, and Climate Change that was offered in collaboration with the Chiang Mai University (CMU), Faculty of Science, Environmental Science International Program in May 2023. For this IFS, the place-based and experiential learning approaches were employed as the centre for the…