Call for chapters on teaching in event management
Here is a call for chapters that may be of interest for those of you who are involved in teaching event management and event tourism.
Rationale and Purpose
Case studies are a key pedagogic method in management as they enable to apply theory in practical contexts and solve organizational problems. They also encourage learners to critically think, reflect and envision alternative ways of managing organizations. This way a case study is not simply a problem-solving exercise, but more importantly, it can engender learning and new insight on diachronic issues and pathogenies. While there are many management-related texts with case studies on different fields and disciplines, the literature on events lacks a comprehensive collection of teaching case studies that cover thoroughly the management aspects of events. This gap must be filled. Event educators should have readily available in their hands a choice of well-crafted cases to illumine issues and interrelationships in event management practice, apply concepts and theories, facilitate critical thinking of learners, as well as advance standards of practice through reflective and blended learning. It is with this purpose in mind that we are putting together this collection of pedagogic cases.
The collection aims to be comprehensive of event management and event tourism main areas, including inter alia, planning, design, operations, human resources, leadership, marketing, policy, strategy, governance, placemaking, leveraging, collaboration, partnership-working, stakeholder management, sustainability, resilience, impact assessment and evaluation. It is intended to offer case studies that mirror the practices and challenges in the event/tourism management industry across the globe – in different regional contexts and cultures – integrating theory with policy, functional and operational perspectives. The case studies in this collection will also be accompanied with teaching notes that explain learning outcomes, theoretical underpinnings, teaching methods, and provide detailed learning activities, questions and tools for analysis and guided assignments.
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