"Visions of World Benefit & Global Responsibility: Perspectives of McGill Students


Saturday, August 4, 2007

FUTURE OF EDUCATION IN MANAGEMENT

Management Education is based on the changes in the society. Education related to managerial education should therefore go through change, be updated, continuously researched and developed so that at any point in time, we are not faced by any obsoleteness in its practicality. The traditional approach may not be adequate to gear the students up for facing real-time problems. Thus, preserving certain relevant and important elements from the traditional style of teaching, and giving it the dexterity to match todays expanded, more comprehensive and holistic teaching style could be rendered sufficient for making difficult situations somewhat ductile. For example, the traditional style of using textbooks and giving out homework is the most basic, and most essential component for any form of academic teaching. However, this must not be the only means, because as reality has it, student psychology has evolved over the years and yearns for more for excellence in academic pursuit. It is important to ensure that current affairs are incorporated into classroom teaching, for practical purposes. To excel in today's world, which is shrinking into networked global village, socialization is a paramount quality. Hence, group ethics should be inculcated into the students through activities which will require them to work as a team, deal with each others' mentality and so on. They should be made to co-op briefly with a company of interest to understand it's functioning. This may not necessarily be long term, and can come in the form of company conferences. Grading can be implemented in the quality and ideology of thought put into every assignment of different testing abilities. The idea of examinations is not totally redundant, as it may be a decently accurate measure of a student's capabilities. To motivate a student in the above-mentioned manner, the teacher himself/ herself has to have the drive, the vision, and the ambition to excel as a human being for making a difference in the world. He/she should understand the importance of change in today's society and is growing needs.
The teacher should be able to identify with the psychology of the students and stir a creative assembly, instilling the goodness of working thoughtfully and thought-provokingly and making them realize that academic excellence in any form not only benefits at an individual level, but at the global level. The teacher should be able to identify with the psychology of the students and stir a creative assembly, instilling the goodness of working thoughtfully and thought-provokingly and making them realize that academic excellence in any form not only benefits at an individual level, but at the global level.

No comments: