...Greg Hearn; Penny Williams; Jose Hilario Pereira Rodrigues; Melinda Laundon Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the approaches to education and training adopted by manufacturing organisations to identify and develop a set of learning principles for the successful transition to Industry...

...Naveed Yasin; Zeinab Khansari Purpose This study evaluates the effectiveness of an enterprise education (social innovation and enterprise) learning programme on the enterprising characteristics among interdisciplinary undergraduate enterprise education students from a general (without considering...

...Brendan Boyle; Rebecca Mitchell; Anthony McDonnell; Narender Sharma; Kumar Biswas; Stephen Nicholas Purpose This paper explores the challenge of “fuzzy” assessment criteria and feedback with a view to aiding student learning. The paper untangles three guiding principles as mechanisms to enhance...

...Guilherme Luz Tortorella; Rogério Miorando; Diego Fettermann; Diego Tlapa Mendoza Purpose This article identifies the association between two methods for teaching lean manufacturing (LM): problem-based learning (PBL) and classroom lectures, and students' learning styles of a postgraduate course...

..., the importation of student-centred approach into these cultures without adequate consideration given to philosophical and cultural differences impede students’ learning and developmental proficiencies (Thanh, 2014). The diverse nature of students coming to study in the UK universities echoes the enormity...

...Timothy Shea; Satyanarayana Parayitam Purpose Using content analysis on assessment of a student’s learning, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of teaching on students through self-disclosure in E-portfolios. The antecedents of graduate student satisfaction are studied using...

... 02 2019 25 02 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Teaching Curriculum Learning Social entrepreneurship Business education Critical awareness According to the South African secondary school curriculum...

...María Alvarez Sainz; Ana M. Ferrero; Arantza Ugidos Purpose The knowledge society determines a work scenario in which it is essential to manage time efficiently; a non-innate skill that should be learned at the university. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach...

... College of Further and Higher Education were interviewed to determine if graduates experienced significant social, emotional and intellectual growth as a result of participation; what teaching and learning settings make this possible; can it be proposed that graduates can be transformed by the experience...

...Sharon Louise Clancy; John Holford Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the implications for adults of learning in a residential context and whether the residential aspect intensifies the learning process, and can lead to enhanced personal transformation, moving beyond professional...

...Michael Breum Ramsgaard; Sara Juul Østergaard Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how using an entrepreneurial learning approach for assessment of internships could increase the reflected value of combining theory and practice articulated in students’ learning outcomes. Furthermore...

...Jan P. Warhuus; Lene Tanggaard; Sarah Robinson; Steffen Moltrup Ernø Purpose The purpose of this paper is to ask: what effect does moving from individual to collective understandings of the entrepreneur in enterprising education have on the student’s learning? And given this shift in understanding...

... to the growing body of research on the role of the psychological contract in volunteering, in particular in university student volunteering and host organisations. Australian universities were slower than their North American and British counterparts in taking up volunteering as an integral part of learning...

... practice to major established educational theories and as such presents a valuable approach to education through entrepreneurship as it aligns authentic approaches to instruction, learning and assessment that strike a balance between resembling and being relevant for real entrepreneurial activity...

...Professor Harry Matlay; Lenita Nieminen; Ulla Hytti Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how self-employed entrepreneurs commit themselves to an entrepreneurship training programme and how such commitment relates to their perceptions of learning. Design/methodology/approach...

... development of the field and discusses the concepts, from philosophical roots and their application, in entrepreneurship education. Findings – Neither of the discussed concepts are enough to generate learning one by one, as they are intertwined within the learning process that aims to generate knowledge...

... key factors of influence for the approaches to teaching and learning. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the assumption that sustaining enterprise education involves developing educator capacity, networks of collaborating educators from different institutions and subject disciplines...

...Dr Paul Jones and Dr Heather Skinner; Tara Smith; Rowena Barrett Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of an informal online discussion forum (ODF) to encourage voluntary participation and promote double-loop learning by small business owners (SBOs). Design/methodology...

...Clare D'Souza Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine if training through debates can be used as a rationale to enhance learning skills. In particular, it investigates whether debating can be useful in developing both, key graduate capabilities skills (critical thinking...

... and benefits associated with the move towards using online technologies in an on‐campus undergraduate first year management subject. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a survey of 362 first year students undertaking a blended learning course in management. Findings Students prefer...