Purpose – Sustainable and effective university‐community partnerships are not easy to create, yet they are an integral part of student community‐based learning as they are uniquely designed to educate students about their roles as members of their local, national, and global communities....

Purpose – This paper aims to describe an ethnographic research study conducted within French families in order to examine the transfer of food learning between parents and children. Design/methodology/approach – An ethnographic study in the respondents' home was conducted. Semi‐directive...

Purpose – Recent advances in the interactive technologies have transformed the way today's organizations and their different stakeholders learn. Now, because of the increasing learning requirements, neither these organizations nor their stakeholders can afford to be too self‐focused while...

Purpose – The Work Foundation has worked with the University of York to deliver a development program for its top 60 leaders designed to address some of the specific challenges faced by a modern university. The program is intended to engage senior leaders in strategic dialogue, to enable them...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore an effective educational method for leadership development. Design/methodology/approach – In order to achieve the objective of the paper, Chester Barnard's insights on leadership and its development are reviewed: the gap between action and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify key themes within the blended learning literature and to develop a series of practical recommendations to facilitate the successful adaptation and implementation of a “blended approach to learning delivery”. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – Apprehension often accompanies the use of unstructured cases from the perspective of teachers and students. To assist in allaying concerns an instructional video that assists learning was developed. However, the effectiveness of the video may be reduced by issues of quality and...