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Business Teaching Beyond Silos focuses on the application of
business education to the teaching of other subject areas and how
other subject areas inform business teaching. It outlines the
benefits of using inter- and multi-disciplinarity to enhance
business education and to influence and inform business practice
within other disciplines. Drawing on case studies and the
contributors' own experiences, the book showcases what cross-,
inter- and multi-disciplinary learning and teaching means, and how
it impacts academia and the real world. Chapters explore
interdisciplinarity in STEM, as well as the humanities and social
science areas, examining key topics including business teaching
philosophies, cultivating business skills and team coaching.
Presenting examples of where interdisciplinary teaching has been
both successful and challenging, the book will enable practitioners
to understand and utilise the worked examples to adapt their own
practice. This practical book will be a useful resource for higher
education teachers and academics who are interested in the teaching
benefits of educating students with interdisciplinary knowledge and
skills.
Focusing on academic entrepreneurship in the university context,
the authors explore how researchers, teachers, students, academic
managers and administrators make sense of entrepreneurship and of
the paradoxes and contradictions involved. The book investigates
how these diverse entrepreneurial actors and their stakeholders
interpret and analyse entrepreneurial activities within the
university ecosystem. New Movements in Academic Entrepreneurship
covers research commercialisation, academic start-up companies and
entrepreneurship education, as well as university-society
relationships more widely. With contributions from Europe, North
America and Asia, this book helps to broaden our understanding of
academic entrepreneurship using original theoretical insights and
rich empirical data. Essential reading for students and researchers
of entrepreneurial universities and ecosystems, this book provides
fresh theoretical frameworks and an inclusive understanding of
academic entrepreneurship.
This 2nd edition of the UK's best selling book on medical school
interviews contains up to date information on NHS current issues
and extensive advice on how to handle MMI-style interviews. This
book presents an in-depth look at over 150 medical school interview
questions. The book provides you with techniques to address the
various types of questions, analyses good and bad examples of
answers, teaches you how to add depth to your answers and how to
answer those difficult ethical scenarios and lateral thinking
questions. If someone asked you: Why medicine? or What are the
qualities of a good doctor? Would you crumble or would you respond
with the same old cliche as the next candidate? How about: What
makes a good team player? Are you a leader or a follower? Should
alcoholics receive liver transplants? Was it a good idea to send a
man to the moon?
This expansive collection explores the complexities of
decolonization and indigenization of post-secondary institutions.
Seeking to advance critical scholarship on issues including the
place of Indigenous epistemologies, knowledges, curriculum, and
pedagogy, Decolonizing and Indigenizing Education in Canada aims to
build space in the academy for Indigenous peoples and resistance
and reconciliation. This 18-chapter collection is built around the
two connecting themes of Indigenous epistemologies and decolonizing
post secondary institutions. Aiming to advance and transform the
Canadian academy, the authors of this volume discuss strategies for
shifting power dynamics and Eurocentric perspectives within higher
education. Written by academics from across Canada, the text
reflects the critical importance of the discourse on truth and
reconciliation in educational contexts and how these discourses are
viewed in institutions across the country. This expansive resource
is essential to students and scholars focusing on Indigenous
knowledges, education and pedagogies, and curriculum studies.
Features includes discussion questions and further reading lists
and offers practical examples of how one can engage in
decolonization work within the academy features Canadian authors in
varying academic positions and provides content specific to the
Canadian education system
The path of a doctoral student can feel challenging and isolating.
This guide provides doctoral students with key ideas and support to
kick-start a doctoral journey, inspire progress and complete their
thesis or dissertation. Featuring observations from experienced
supervisors, as well as the reflections of current and recent
postgraduate researchers, this intimate and entertaining book
offers vital insights into the critical moments in any doctoral
experience. Bringing together the voices of doctoral supervisors
and candidates past and present from around the globe, How to Keep
your Doctorate on Track will be a trusted companion for any PhD,
DBA or EdD student. Supervisors and those offering support and
guidance to doctoral candidates will also glean valuable insight
into fresh approaches and their own practice. Contributors include:
A. Alecsandru, F. Archontoulis, C. Atkinson, A. Byrnes-Johnstone,
J. Callahan, A. Casey, R. Cole, O.S. Crocco, M. Cseh, Z. Djebali,
G. Dobson, J. Donaghey, D.C. Duke, U. Furnier, V.O. Gekara, T.
Gray, T.W. Greer, A. Hallin, B. Harney, G. Henry, C. Hughes, P.
Jordan, M. Knox, S.F. Lambert, A. Lee, Q.Y. Lee, A. Lobo, R.
Markey, N.S. Mauthner, E. McDonald, L. McKerr, D. Nickson, K.
Nimon, E. Partlow, H. Prescott, N. Reynolds, S. Riaz, A. Robertson,
J. Robinson, K. Rosenbusch, G. Ryan, J.J. Saunders, M.
Shirmohammadi, M.K. Tran, A. Trif, M. Valverde, P. Watson Black, V.
Webster, R. Whiting, C.F. Wright
Despite the broad engagement of higher education institutions in
most social sectors, limited thinking and hyper-individualistic
approaches have dominated discussions of their value to society.
Advocating a more rigorous and comprehensive approach, this
insightful book discusses the broad range of contributions made by
higher education and the many issues entailed in theorising,
observing, measuring and evaluating those contributions. Prepared
by a group of leading international scholars, the chapters
investigate the multiple interconnections between higher education
and society and the vast range of social, economic, political and
cultural functions carried out by universities, colleges and
institutes and their personnel. The benefits of higher education
include employable graduates, new knowledge via research and
scholarship, climate science and global connections, and the
structuring of economic and social opportunities for whole
populations, as well as work and advice for government at all
levels. Higher education not only lifts earnings and augments
careers, it also immerses students in knowledge, helps to shape
them as people, and fosters productivity, democracy, tolerance and
international understanding. The book highlights the value added by
higher education for persons, organisations, communities, cities,
nations, and the world. It also focuses on inequalities in the
distribution of that value, and finds that the tools for assessing
higher education are neither adequate nor complete as yet.
International and interdisciplinary in scope, this book will prove
an invaluable resource to students and scholars of higher
education, educational policy and social policy. It will also prove
a useful resource to both university executives and tertiary
education policymakers who want to make higher education more
effectively accountable to the public.
This timely Handbook investigates the many perspectives from which
to reconsider teaching and learning within business schools, during
a time in which higher education is facing challenges to the way
teaching might be delivered in the future. Bringing together a
diverse range of expert contributors, this Handbook fills gaps in
current knowledge and research, whilst expanding and exploring new
fields. Topics covered include the use and value of learning
technologies, leadership education and continuous professional
development of research-based teachers. Crucially, the Handbook
considers how faculty at all levels of seniority will be forced to
challenge their own modus operandi in designing and delivering
teaching. This is especially important during and in the aftermath
of the COVID-19 pandemic, where blended learning should be
carefully assessed before it is adopted as part of any course
design. Offering both practical suggestions and cutting-edge
research into the field, this Handbook will be a key resource for
academics, practitioners and students in business and management
education who wish to consolidate their teaching and learning and
further understand the broader issues surrounding it.
Leonard Moore has been teaching Black history for twenty-five
years, mostly to white people. Drawing on decades of experience in
the classroom and on college campuses throughout the South, as well
as on his own personal history, Moore illustrates how an
understanding of Black history is necessary for everyone. With
Teaching Black History to White People, which is "part memoir, part
Black history, part pedagogy, and part how-to guide," Moore
delivers an accessible and engaging primer on the Black experience
in America. He poses provocative questions, such as "Why is the
teaching of Black history so controversial?" and "What came first:
slavery or racism?" These questions don't have easy answers, and
Moore insists that embracing discomfort is necessary for engaging
in open and honest conversations about race. Moore includes a
syllabus and other tools for actionable steps that white people can
take to move beyond performative justice and toward racial
reparations, healing, and reconciliation.
Wellbeing is foundational to citizens' individual and collective
ability to acknowledge, address, and alleviate ongoing struggles,
shared risks, and the unprecedented challenges of our time. A
holistic focus on wellness across campus communities is timely and
important, given that national and global justice movements are
calling upon post-secondary institutions to address the ways in
which education systems have been reproducing dominant narratives,
reinforcing systemic discrimination, and retaliating against
education leaders who work to disrupt structural inequalities.
Leadership Wellness and Mental Health Concerns in Higher Education
offers diverse perspectives about whether and how campus leaders
around the world are sustaining and advancing health and wellness
in unprecedented times and amplifies diverse voices in the
exploration of how to advance individual and collective wellbeing
in higher education. Covering a wide range of topics such as stress
management and burnout, this reference work is ideal for
academicians, scholars, researchers, administrators, practitioners,
instructors, and students.
Now What? Is a reference book and guide offering practical advice
to teenagers as they approach the key decisions regarding their
futures, whether it be careers, university, apprenticeships or
something else. The follow up to the No. 1 bestselling Amazon
career guide, 'Is your school lying to you?' offers all new
insights into the need for self reliance, adaptability and
entrepreneurial spark to navigate and succeed in the new, post
pandemic marketplace they'll be entering as adults. An honest,
fresh and deliberately unacademic take on the evergreen issue of
how best to advise teens on their choices free from bias and
parental expectation. Now What? Challenges the myth that school
will take care of this and empowers students to embrace their
opportunities, achieve their goals and through self reliance,
realise their ambitions.
Recently, the priorities of higher education have adjusted; where
before the focus was primarily on the financial side of education,
institutions now consider people to be their main source of value
and education to be much more than the production and dissemination
of knowledge. Due to this, a gap has been created between decades
of emphasis on financing and the undermining of the qualitative
requirements of education. New Perspectives on Using Accreditation
to Improve Higher Education outlines key issues that must be
addressed if accreditation agencies globally are to achieve their
primary objective of ensuring that universities and the degree
programs they offer are of even greater quality than they are at
present. Covering topics such as leadership, assessment, and
sustainability, this reference work is ideal for principals,
policymakers, higher education staff, researchers, scholars,
academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.
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