The liberal arts and management education: A global agenda for change

Publication Type

Book

Publication Date

1-2020

Abstract

Calling for the transformation of undergraduate education, Thomas and Harney argue that the liberal arts should be integrated into the traditional management curriculum to blend technical and analytic acumen with creativity, critical thinking, and ethical intelligence. In describing their vision for a new liberal management education, the authors demonstrate how a holistic pedagogy that does not sacrifice one wealth of learning for another instead encourages participation and integration to the benefit of students and society. Global in sweep, the book provides case studies of successfully implemented experimental courses in Asia and Britain, as well as a speculative chapter on how an African liberal management education could take shape, based on African-centred principles and histories. Finally, the book argues that the stakes of this agenda go beyond mere curricular reform and pedagogical innovation and speak directly to the environmental, business, political, and social challenges we face today. Including case studies from Singapore Management University and Queen Mary University of London.

Keywords

Management education, liberal arts, humanities, pedagogy, Singapore, Africa, United Kingdom

Discipline

Business | Higher Education

Research Areas

Strategy and Organisation

First Page

1

Last Page

224

ISBN

9781108561839

Identifier

10.1017/9781108561839

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

City or Country

Cambridge

Additional URL

https://worldcat.org/isbn/9781108561839

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