[Air-l] Educating Managers through Real World Projects

[Charles Wankel]

Friends and colleagues:

Educating Managers through Real World Projects is now available with
research on best practices around the world in using work embedded
e-Learning, action learning, consulting projects etc. in management
education and development.  Full information including chapter abstracts and
an order form for your library is available at
http://management-education.net/rmed4.html  

EDUCATING MANAGERS THROUGH REAL WORLD PROJECTS

Introduction: Project Based Management Education Best Practice
Robert DeFillippi and Charles Wankel

Section I: Consulting Projects 

1. Wharton's Global Consulting Practicum: Interdependence, Ambiguity, and
Reflection 
Patricia Gorman Clifford, Wharton School of Business
Jane Hiller Farran, Wharton School of Business
Leonard Lodish, Wharton School of Business

2. Project Based International Business Consulting
C. Patrick Fleenor, Seattle University
Peter V. Raven, Seattle University
Jerry Ralston, Seattle University

3. Real Real World Projects
Mats Lundeberg, Stockholm School of Economics
Pär Mårtensson, Stockholm School of Economics

4. Managing Divergent and Convergent Focus of Learning in Student Field
Projects
Susan Adams, Bentley College

Section II: Service Learning Projects

5. Educating Managers through Service Learning Projects 
Karen Ayas, Rotterdam School of Management
Philip Mirvis, Boston College

6. Real World Transfer of Professional Knowledge: A modification to
internship learning 
Jan Brace-Govan, Monash University, Australia
Irene H. Powell, Monash University, Australia

7. Creating actionable knowledge: Experimenting with service learning in a
corporatist nonprofit regime
Judith van der Voort, Rotterdam School of Management
Lucas C.P.M. Meijs, Rotterdam School of Management
Gail Whiteman, Rotterdam School of Management

Section III: Action Learning

8. Action Learning as a Vehicle for Management Development and
Organizational Learning: Empirical Patterns from Practice and Theoretical
Implications
Lyle Yorks, Columbia University, Teachers College

9. Action Learning for Management Development: Lessons from a Leadership
Development Programme
Richard T. Harrison, University of Edinburgh
Claire M. Leitch, Queen's University, Belfast

10. The Manchester Method: A Critical Review of a Learning Experiment
Tudor Rickards, Manchester Business School
Paula J. Hyde, Manchester Business School
K. Nadia Papamichail, Manchester Business School

11. A Management Education Model for Bridging the Academic and the Real
World
Eugene Baten, Central Connecticut State University
David Fearon, Central Connecticut State University
Cheryl Harrison, Quinnipiac University

Section IV: A Potpourri of Project-Based Practices and Perspectives 

12. Work Embedded e-Learning
Paul Shrivastava, Bucknell University

13. Problem-based Learning Approaches in Management Education
Oon-Seng Tan, Nanyang Technological University

14. Business Plan Competitions: Vehicles for Learning about Entrepreneurship
Malu Roldan, San Jose State University
Asbjorn Osland, San Jose State University
Michael Solt, San Jose State University
Burton V. Dean, San Jose State University 
Mark V. Cannice, University of San Francisco 

15. The Role of the Student in Project Learning
Timothy C. Johnston, University of Tennessee at Martin 

16. A Design for Assessing Authentic Business Projects: Project-Organized
Education in an Undergraduate Program
Marjolein van Noort, Hogeschool Zeeland 
Georges Romme, Tilburg University

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Collegially,
Charles Wankel
Associate Professor
St. John's University, New York
wankelc at optonline.net