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ERIC Number: EJ1052641
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-1942-2504
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Practicing What We Teach, Teaching What They'll Practice: Developing "Reflective Practitioners" through a Capstone Business Course
Grinnell, James; Muise, Cristina; Litvin, Deborah
American Journal of Business Education, v2 n6 p109-116 2009
Business education is failing to prepare undergraduates for success in the 21st century workplace. In this paper we contribute one example of a course specifically designed to confront and close this gap between what we know and what we do as business educators. Our example is an innovative, student-centered, senior-level capstone course developed at the Girard School of Business and International Commerce at Merrimack College. To develop the course, Strategic Analysis and Decision Making, faculty drew from the time-tested pedagogical traditions of Oxford University's tutorial system as well as from the recent movement toward a pedagogy of peer-assisted learning. They conceived and implemented the course as a structure within which students--as individuals and as team members--formulate appropriate questions for themselves in order to rise to the challenges they face during each weekly seminar with their faculty.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Massachusetts
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