Redesigning academic environments: An Alternative Comprehensive Approach to Quality Business Education (symposium 1579)
Conference:
ECER 2009
Format:
Symposium Paper

Session Information

22 SES 08 A, Institutional Creativity - Universities in Transformation

Symposium

Time:
2009-09-30
08:30-10:00
Room:
HG, HS 33
Chair:
Susanne Maria Weber
Discussant:
Michael Peters

Contribution

s schools follow the conventional educational practice of today and they see knowledge as primarily conceptual and independent of the context in which it is acquired and used. Learning should be viewed as a process that enables students to become different individuals based on their skill capabilities, with respect to others and with respect to the environment at large. Thus, through the process of learning, business schools should enable their students to improve their quality of life, become who they want to be, and not to be just recipients of knowledge. This paper will present an alternative approach in bridging the business education theory with the business world’s practice—and not only—and provide a stimulus for the development of a high quality business education program. An idealized design model will be developed where quality, graduate, professional management education, will be the focus in better preparing students for the twenty-first century organizations.

Method

Expected Outcomes

References

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Author Information

University of Fulda
Social Studies
Fulda
54
Marios Katsioloudes, American Hellenic University, Athens, Greece
BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY
ATHENS

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