Search Results - subject:"Service Learning"

Kovach, Jamison V.; Carden, Lila L.; Ramos, Miguel A. - In: International journal of six sigma and competitive … 8 (2013/14) 3/4, pp. 227-246

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Teaching entrepreneurship : a practice-based approach

Neck, Heidi M.; Greene, Patricia Gene; Brush, Candida G. - 2014

'Of course, entrepreneurship can be taught, and this books shows how. Using scholarly research as the foundation, the authors have crafted a set of practices to foster entrepreneurial thinking that should be incorporated in all courses across the entire curriculum.'--Tina Seelig, Stanford...

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The Role of Coercive Persuasion in Education and Learning: Subjugation or Animation?

Schein, Edgar H. - In: Research in organizational change and development., (pp. 1-23). 2014

This chapter explores the role that coercion plays in the educational process, looking at it both from the point of view of the teacher and from the perspective of the student/learner. The primary focus will be on coercion but inevitably manipulation and seduction enter the picture as well. I...

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Chapter 16 Experiences of Informed Learning in the Undergraduate Classroom

Maybee, Clarence - In: Information experience, (pp. 259-273). 2014

This chapter discusses using phenomenography to study information experience . Phenomenographers aim to investigate people’s experiences of the world around them, which is comprised of the interrelationship between an individual and a phenomenon they are focusing on. Phenomenography has been...

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One Size Does not Fit all – Different Strategies for Teaching Accounting Ethics

Graham, Carol M.; Kelly, Patrick; Massey, Dawn W.; Van … - In: Research on professional responsibility and ethics in …, (pp. 139-157). 2014

Teaching ethical decision making can be distinguished from teaching decision making in other settings by its juxtaposition of students’ affect with their intellect (Gaudine & Thorne, 2001); as Griseri (2002, p. 374) aptly points out, “effective business ethics teaching should involve a...

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Co-Creating the Classroom Experience to Transform Learning and Change Lives

Quinn, Robert E.; Heynoski, Katherine; Thomas, Michael; … - In: Research in organizational change and development., (pp. 25-54). 2014

This paper is about extraordinary performance in organizations. Our specific focus is unusual. We examine a context with which many readers are deeply familiar, the public school classroom. We consider the work of highly effective teachers and generate a framework of hypotheses about how they...

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Teaching Management Information Systems with Blended Learning Methods

Garcia-Ruiz, Maria Elena - 2006

The aim of this case-study is to show the creation and development of a virtual environment for an information systems subject. In order to prepare this work, we worried about some topics related with differences between traditional classroom teaching and web-based learning (WBL). Our paper is...

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On the Use of Classroom Experiments in 'Aligned' Teaching

Cheung, Stephen L. - 2006

The use of classroom experiments as a teaching-learning activity in economics courses is now well established and a healthy practitioners' literature has evolved around this topic. What is less satisfactory is the paucity of literature relating the adoption of these methods to the more...

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Service-Learning and Leadership: Evidence from Teaching Financial Literacy

Sabbaghi, Omid; Gerald Cavanagh S. J.; Tim Hipskind S. J. - In: Journal of Business Ethics 118 (2013) 1, pp. 127-137

financial literacy service-learning. Using a unique dataset of student self-ratings, we find that students experience … statistically significant increases in these dimensions following the completion of the service-learning suggest positive effects on … consequence of the financial literacy service-learning, we believe that business students become more prepared toward becoming …

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Involuntary volunteering: The impact of mandated service in public schools

Helms, Sara E. - In: Economics of Education Review 36 (2013) C, pp. 295-310

In 1992, Maryland became the first—and only—state to require service activity of all public high school graduates. Proponents of mandates note that since individual volunteer activity is correlated over time, mandates will create lifetime volunteers. Prior studies demonstrate differences in...

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