Title: Reinventing the Hospitality Curriculum in the Post-COVID-19 Era
Stream: Curriculum Design & Development
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
Authors:
Anastasios Zopiatis, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Abstract:
The hospitality industry was heavily disrupted in December 2019, when the world first heard of COVID-19. The pandemic caused a global lockdown with unprecedent ramifications across all hospitality sectors and relevant academia. Educational institutions, by both demonstrating resilience and espousing innovative pedagogic innovations, swiftly adjusted their operations to online synchronous and asynchronous course delivery teaching modes, nevertheless the traditional hospitality curriculum remained untouched. Unequivocally, the transformational nature of the pandemic necessitates structural changes on contemporary hospitality education. Reflecting on this premise, this work aims to provide the conceptual foundation for reinventing hospitality curriculum in the post COVID-19 era in such a way that would equip the next generation of professionals with the relevant KSA’s necessary in dealing with future crises. Such a curriculum redesign must shift away from the sterility of the 20th century educational paradigms – time in which conformity and standardization were the norm - in order to reflect the narrative of this era, the unusual and demanding workplace circumstances, and the atypical work values and beliefs of the newest generations. Findings, of importance to industry stakeholders, will inform future research endeavors by providing ample opportunities for those interested in post-pandemic research agendas and paradigm shifts, educational technologies, experiential learning activities, and the expansion of the discipline’s conceptual boundaries and multidisciplinary nature via the re-development of a post-COVID-19 hospitality curriculum.
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