José-Carlos García-Rosell

Yliopistonlehtorina olen erikoistunut vastuulliseen matkailuliiketoimintaan, jonka parissa olen työskennellyt vuodesta 2004. Minun tutkimusintressini ovat strateginen yritysvastuu, sidosryhmät ja suuhdet, matkailun palvelumuotoilu, toimintatutkimus ja johtamisen/matkailun korkeakoultuksen pedagogiikka. Tarkastelen parhaillaan matkailun yritysvastuun ja eläintutkimuksen välisiä suhteita.

Teaching, for me, means helping students learn how to learn and understand their social worlds. I put an emphasis on supporting students to develop critical thinking and reflexivity, which I see as vital to responsible business. While critical thinking refers to the skills needed to deal with ethical issues in today's complex business environments, critical reflexivity is the ability to question business-as-usual in a search for more responsible business practices.

Through experiential learning pedagogies, I aim to encourage students to feel inspired and personally engaged in their learning by reflecting on complex business and society issues from different stakeholder perspectives. This is essential for educating the responsible tourism leaders of tomorrow. Being disposed to critical thinking and reflexivity allows professionals to be open-minded, inquiring, mindfulness, caring and eager to critically evaluate contemporary management practices and decision making. These are among the essential dispositions that students should develop in order to transform old ways of organizing, managing, and relating to stakeholders in tourism.