
Educating Managers Through Real World Projects
Information Age Publishing
Published on 1. August 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
404 pages
978-1-59311-370-4 (ISBN)
Description
Innovative learning projects in management education and development are discussed in the frame of cutting-edge theory and salient practice. Learning projects are defined as educationally directed activities involving out-of-classroom action settings complemented by student and/or instructor directed reflection on the links between theory and practice.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Charlotte
United States
Publishing group
Emerald Publishing Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
565 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59311-370-4 (9781593113704)
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Charles Wankel | Robert DeFillippi
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Content
Editorial Review Board. List of Contributors. Real World Projects and Project-Based Learning Pedagogies, Robert DeFillippi and Charles Wankel. PART I: CONSULTING PROJECTS. Wharton's Global Consulting Practicum: Interdependence, Ambiguity and Reflection. Patricia Gorman Clifford, Jane Hiller Farran and Leonard Lodish. Project Based International Business Consulting, C. Patrick Fleenor, Peter V. Raven and Jerry Ralston. Real Real World Projects, Mats Lundeberg and Par Martensson. Managing Divergent and Convergent Focus of Learning in Student Field Projects, Susan Adams. PART II: SERVICE LEARNING PROJECTS. Educating Managers through Service Learning Projects, Karen Ayas and Philip Mirvis. Real World Transfer of Professional Knowledge: A Modification to Internship Learning, Jan Brace-Govan and Irene H. Powell. Creating Actionable Knowledge: Experimenting with Service Learning in a Corporatist Nonprofit Regime, Judith van der Voort, Lucas C.P.M Meijs and Gail Whiteman. PART III: ACTION LEARNING. Action Learning as a Vehicle for Management Development and Organizational Learning: Empirical Patterns from Practice and Theoretical Implications, Lyle Yorks. Action Learning for Management Development: Lessons from a Leadership Development Programme, Richard T. Harrison and Claire M. Leitch. The Manchester Method: A Critical Review of a Learning Experiment, Tudor Rickards, Paula J. Hyde and K. Nadia Papamichail. A Management Education Model for Bridging the Academic and Real World, Eugene Baten, David Fearon and Cheryl Harrison. PART IV: A POTPOURRI OF PROJECT-BASED PRACTICES AND PERSPECTIVES. Work Embedded eLearning, Paul Shrivastava. Problem-Based Learning Approaches to Management Education, Oon-Seng Tan. Business Plan Competitions: Vehicles for Learning Entrepreneurship, Malu Roldan, Asbjorn Osland, Michael Solt, Burton V. Dean and Mark V. Cannice. The Role of the Student in Project Learning, Timothy C. Johnston. Assessing Performance in Projects from Different Angles, Marjolein van Noort and Georges Romme. Editors' Brief Biographies.