Roles of Business Schools for New Generations of Innovative Business Leaders: A collaborative stakeholders as agents of change perspective

In the post economic crisis, the ability of a society to (re)create sustainable social, organisational and business structures is paramount. This need is clearly seen in our global economy where competitive economic realities result in a steady stream of economic activities being outsourced to offshore manufacturing facilities and service centres. The ability to replace this flow with new offerings is largely dependent on a society’s innovative capacity. This research project seeks to understand the roles of business schools in building innovative capacity within young graduates. Interviews and focus groups will be held with UK universities, leading graduate recruiters, entrepreneurs and students to understand the challenge of developing creative capacity from the perspectives of these key stakeholders. It is anticipated that a richer understanding of the context, ‘real world’ requirements and innovative pedagogical approaches will illuminate opportunities narrowing the skill gap as well as identifying the possibility of developing collaborative relationships between these stakeholders. The findings of this study will be pertinent to universities, national and international policy makers, educational institutions and ultimately future generations of students

Critical thinking across the curriculum (CTAC)

Implementing critical thinking across the curriculum is challenging, involving securing substantial agreement on the nature of critical thinking, areas of prospective application (subject matter? everyday life?), degree of need for a separate course, and the nature of coordination, including leadership, a glossary, selection of courses for incorporation, avoidance of duplication and gaps, acquiring required subject matter, and assessment of the total effort, teaching methods used, and decrease or increase in retention of subject matter

Commentary on: Ilan Goldberg, Justine Kingsbury and Tracy Bowell\u27s Measuring critical thinking about deeply held beliefs

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The influence of television on vocabulary, concepts and comprehension of thirty children in the second grade

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Definition: A Three-Dimensional Analysis with Bearing on Key Concepts

This essay presents a three-dimensional analysis of definition (form, stance, and content) with application to making and evaluating definitions; teaching how to define; avoiding equivocation with argument and bias ; and, using the concept-conception distinction, avoiding being deterred by the many definitions of critical thinking , and seeing the usefulness of objectivity in everyday arguments in spite of existing conflict and confusion about aspects of objectivity

Correlation and causality

This paper provides an analysis of the argument from cause and effect and a comparison of its various types with the argument from correlation. It will be claimed that arguments from causality and from correlation should be treated as equivalent for argumentative purposes. The main advantages of this approach (theoretical economy and impact on the taxonomy of critical questions) as well as possible theo-retical objections will be discussed