基于4R理论的海外旅游专业硕士课程设置的思考

Reflections on Overseas Curriculum for Master's Degree of Tourism Based on 4R Concept

现代旅游业的国际化需要大批具有丰富行业管理经验的应用型、外向型人才。美国教育专家多尔的建构性4R理论为解决我国高等旅游教育课程设置中存在的问题提供了理论依据。在分析4R理论的基础上,对10多个国家及地区旅游专业硕士课程进行比较研究,并以西安外国语大学为例,结合其办学特色,从国际化、应用性、职业化人才培养视角,探索旅游管理专业硕士课程建设问题,以期使课程结构体系及内容符合市场要求,并随着旅游教育目标群体及教育者群体多样化拓宽,使高等旅游教育大众化走向完善,实现就业意义上的"供给创造需求"。

International modern tourism industry demands a large amount of applied and extraverted talents with abundant enterprise management experience. The constructional 4R concept from Doll, an American education specialist, provides considerable concept basis for solving conflicts and problems existed in China＇s present higher tourism education curriculum structure and con- tent. In this paper, based on analyzing 4R concept, curriculum for tourism major postgraduates of more than ten countries and ar- eas are compared and researched. By taking examples of Xi＇an international Studies University, combining its school management peculiarity and advantages, from its international, applied and professional aspect of talents training, the authors aim at exploring construction of tourism management curriculum for postgraduates, bearing the hope to have the curriculum structure and contents to meet market demand; and accompanying diversification and broadening of tourism education targeting population and educators, to improve quality of higher tourism＇s popularization, so as to realize ＂supply creates demands＂ in respect of employment.