Learning-styles of Hospitality Students: Do Career Interests Make Differences in Learning-styles?

The Influence of Learning Style on Hospitality and Tourism Students' Preference for Web Assignments

“…Students in a social science field of study, looking to enter careers in practical and hands-on industries are more likely to be Active, Sensing, Visual and Sequential in their learning styles. This result supports Lee and Kamp's (2005) finding that hospitality management students, in general, were Active, Sensing, Visual and Sequential learners.…”

“…Males preferred abstract concepts and active experimentation more than females. Using Felder and Soloman's Index of Learning Styles, Lee and Kamp (2005) reported that junior and senior hospitality management students surveyed were mainly Active, Sensing, Visual and Sequential learners. More females indicated they used Sensing and Verbal learning styles than males, however, only the Sensing dimension was significant at the 0.05 level.…”

Career Advancement for Tourism and Hospitality Academics: Publish, Network, Study, and Plan

“…The perception of industry of educational offerings, in particular recruiters of tourism and hospitality graduates, has also been examined (Harris, Kwansa, & Lattuca, 2006). Much emphasis has been placed on gaining a better understanding of tourism and hospitality students by investigating, for example, their attitudes and learning styles (Aksu & Köksal, 2005;Hsu & Wolfe, 2003;Lee & Kamp, 2005) and their career path and progression following graduation (King, McKercher, & Waryszak, 2003;McKercher, Williams, & Coghlan, 1995;O'Leary & Deegan, 2005). However, little research attention has been devoted to gaining a better understanding of the academics who teach tourism and hospitality students at universities.…”

Toward the Development of Best Practice in a Postgraduate International Hospitality Management Program

“…To accomplish this, a range of learning and teaching styles need to be acknowledged and accommodated. Various typologies have been recommended as frameworks for understanding hospitality student learning styles, such as culture, activist/pragmatist/reflector/theorist, nature/nurture (Barron, 2002(Barron, , 2005(Barron, , 2006Dale & McCarthy, 2006; Felder-Solomon, cited by Lee and Kamp, 2005; Honey and Mumford, cited by Huang and Busby, 2007;Kolb, cited by Hsu, 1999). Education institutions, as facilitators of the student learning experience, have a clear responsibility to provide a teaching and learning environment that stimulates, is participative, and engages the students.…”