A phenomenological study of the learning experience of children in rural tourism destinations

IF 3.3 4区 管理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM
Hamdollah Sojasi Qeidari, H. Shayan, Z. Solimani, D. Ghorooneh
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Abstract

Increasing the level of awareness and knowledge of children is one of the families’ main goals and concerns. Informal learning through communication, experience, and objective observation during tourism can be one of the appropriate methods in this field. Particularly tourism in rural environments is a new, tangible, empirical, and observational experience. In this study, using a phenomenological approach, the learning experiences of 22 children in rural tourism destinations in the vicinity of the metropolis of Mashhad, Iran were interpreted through interviews and paintings. The descriptive phenomenological approach is a good qualitative method for studying children’s tourism experiences. Also, analysis of paintings and interviews conducted with children studied in rural tourism destinations showed that the experience of tourism outside the city, viewing life and activity in villages, observing other tourists, and playing in nature, led to the formation and increase of children’s learning. It is about taking responsibility, self-confidence, socialization, respect nature, tolerance, and patience, fostering creativity, and self-protection. The findings show that travel and tourism have a significant impact on increasing children’s environmental and social learning and can be an appropriate guide for parents of children and schools related to raising children in the use of tourism in rural areas as a way of environmental, experimental and observational learning. Thus, informal learning through tourism is a good way to develop children’s awareness and various skills such as familiarity with rural lifestyles, occupations and animals and plants, touching objects, the true size of phenomena, understanding environmental realities, communicating with others.
乡村旅游地儿童学习经验的现象学研究
提高儿童的认识和知识水平是家庭的主要目标和关切之一。旅游期间通过交流、体验和客观观察进行非正式学习是该领域的适当方法之一。尤其是乡村环境中的旅游是一种新的、有形的、经验的和观察的体验。本研究采用现象学方法,通过访谈和绘画,对伊朗马什哈德大都市附近乡村旅游目的地的22名儿童的学习经历进行了解读。描述现象学方法是研究儿童旅游体验的一种很好的定性方法。此外,对绘画的分析和对在乡村旅游目的地学习的儿童的采访表明,城市以外的旅游体验、在村庄观看生活和活动、观察其他游客以及在大自然中玩耍,导致了儿童学习的形成和增加。它是关于承担责任、自信、社会化、尊重自然、宽容和耐心、培养创造力和自我保护。研究结果表明,旅行和旅游对提高儿童的环境和社会学习有着重要影响,可以为儿童家长和学校提供适当的指导,将旅游作为一种环境、实验和观察学习的方式,在农村地区培养儿童。因此,通过旅游进行非正式学习是培养儿童意识和各种技能的好方法,如熟悉农村生活方式、职业和动植物、触摸物体、现象的真实规模、了解环境现实、与他人交流。
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Tourist Studies
Tourist Studies HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-
CiteScore
6.90
自引率
4.20%
发文量
13
期刊介绍: Tourist Studies is a multi-disciplinary journal providing a platform for the development of critical perspectives on the nature of tourism as a social phenomenon through a qualitative lens. Theoretical and multi-disciplinary. Tourist Studies provides a critical social science approach to the study of the tourist and the structures which influence tourist behaviour and the production and reproduction of tourism. The journal examines the relationship between tourism and related fields of social inquiry. Tourism and tourist styles consumption are not only emblematic of many features of contemporary social change, such as mobility, restlessness, the search for authenticity and escape, but they are increasingly central to economic restructuring, globalization, the sociology of consumption and the aestheticization of everyday life. Tourist Studies analyzes these features of tourism from a multi-disciplinary perspective and seeks to evaluate, compare and integrate approaches to tourism from sociology, socio-psychology, leisure studies, cultural studies, geography and anthropology. Global Perspective. Tourist Studies takes a global perspective of tourism, widening and challenging the established views of tourism presented in current periodical literature. Tourist Studies includes: Theoretical analysis with a firm grounding in contemporary problems and issues in tourism studies, qualitative analyses of tourism and the tourist experience, reviews linking theory and policy, interviews with scholars at the forefront of their fields, review essays on particular fields or issues in the study of tourism, review of key texts, publications and visual media relating to tourism studies, and notes on conferences and other events of topical interest to the field of tourism studies.
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