Tourism students' post-placement opinions of Work Integrated Learning (WIL)

African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure

卷:5

Tish Taylor¹  Sue Geldenhuys¹ 

[1] Tshwane University of Technology;

关键词: Tourism;    Work-Integrated Learning;    co-operative education;    internships;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Anecdotal evidence suggests that tourism students’ benefit from Work Iintegrated Learning (WIL)placements. The main goal of this research is to provide primary evidence of tourism students’experiences of work integrated learning and to suggest remedial action. The study involved an analysisof tourism students’ WIL reports from 2010 to 2015. The reports were completed at the end of the WILplacement and submitted to the Department of Tourism Management at Tshwane University ofTechnology for final assessment. Content analysis was used to derive codes by highlighting exact wordsfrom text that appeared to capture the key thoughts and concepts expressed by students. The initialcoding scheme came directly from the text and were then sorted into different categories based on therelationship of codes. The advantage of this method was that it allowed for an analysis based on directinformation from WIL students’ without imposing preconceived categories or theoretical perspectives.Results of the study support the numerous benefits of WIL and provide essential feedback andsuggestIons from WIL ‘participants. Students reported their satisfaction with the WIL program and futherconnected the work experience to enhanced personal and professional development. This researchprovides valuable information to both academic institutions and future employers and can be used as abasis from which to improve the WIL program and training of WIL students.

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