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Embedding Responsible Management Education________________________________________
To be published by Greenleaf- Spring 2016
Call for authors:This collaborative text profiles cutting-edge approaches to learning and teaching for the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) that go beyond the current discussions of sustainability and corporate social responsibility content, to include a wider lens that highlights the processes of educating the next generation of responsible managers within and beyond the boundaries of higher education.
A unique aspect of this book is that each chapter integrates original content from academic authors, together with commentary from practising managers. This collaborative approach allows the voices of both academia and business to be heard in education for responsible management.
This text aims to provide comprehensive and detailed coverage of pedagogical practices and tools used by RME educators around the world, drawing together leading thinkers, and management educators in this field, to share their practice, primary research and scholarship on this topic. The book is structured in two parts that together overview the six themes that constitute the Principles of Responsible Management Education. For details regarding the chapters and the proposal guidelines see below.
Timeline:
30 October 2014 Chapter Proposal
15 November 2014 Decisions & Feedback
1 June 2015 Chapters Due
Summer 2015 Review
15 October 2015 Revisions Due
Co-editors:Dr. Roz Sunley, University of Winchester, UK
roz.sunley@winchester.ac.uk, Tel: 07795 325484
Dr. Jennifer S.A. Leigh, Nazareth College of Rochester, NY, USA
jleigh4@naz.edu, Tel: 585-694-8770
Prof Alan Murray, University of Winchester, UK
Chapter & Proposal Guidelines:For chapter proposals please include the following: 1) an outline of the chapter, 2) a statement about how the chapter proposal links to the book themes and where it fits into the chapter outline below, 3) a description of how they would involve practitioners (co-authors, reflective preface or postscript, or others), 4) Identification of the key learnings, practices, and inquiries that can be generalized to other educational contexts..
We are looking for co-authored contributions from academics and practicing managers on the following topics and others closely related to this domain:
Part 1 offers the context for Responsible Management Education (RME) and considers questions relating to the first three PRME themes - purpose, values and method.
1. Review of RME literature/information in both academic and business contexts: What's the relevant research that contextualizes RME today?
2. Creating a RME vision: What are effective strategies for developing a RME vision regardless of the political, business, educational or policy environment?
3. RME Purpose: What's the business case behind engaging with RME? Written from a Manager perspective with academic commentary
4. Values & RME: What ethical values are underpinning education for socially responsible leaders? How are the values of social responsibility incorporated into academic and business activities? What are the challenges and obstacles to values-based education/management practice in politically & ideologically mixed contexts?
5. Reflective Practice in RME - Academic & Business: What values do management educators hold themselves? Are there links between professional development and responsible management education?
6. Formal and informal learning to support the RME agenda: How does blending formal and experiential learning support RME?
7. Global Issues: Are there differences in RME across the globe? If so, how?
8. Practices that bridge theory and practice: How do we connect students' lived experience with conceptual classroom ideas (i.e. advisory councils, business plan competitions)? Manager commentary
9. RME & Learning Platforms: How do we provide the best learning opportunities via F2F, hybrid & virtual learning for RME integration?
Part Two considers how research, stakeholder relationships and dialogue support responsible management education.
1. Research and RME stakeholders: What is the relationship between research and global stakeholders in RME? What are the current challenges for business schools and global stakeholders in creating sustainable economic, social and environmental value?
2. Talking responsible management in higher education and beyond: Do internal relationships/processes exist to promote conversation about responsible management in higher education and beyond? Where do conversations take place? What is the focus of discussion? How can educators and managers negotiate discussion barriers like ideological conflicts, political processes, and epistemological & value differences?
3. What external relationships or connections are being forged with business to extend knowledge of the challenges in meeting social and environmental responsibilities (e.g. with extractive industries in S. Africa, Canada)
4. Action Research in RME: What does this look like in academic contexts? What does this look like in business and what does this mean for education (i.e. market research, environmental scanning & other scoping exercises)?
5. Engaged Learning: How can service learning support responsible management education? What other examples of community engagement exist to promote and encourage the practice of responsible management?
6. Dialogue & Action: Civil society and RME - What's this new space for business action? How do social enterprise /social entrepreneurship and civil society promote responsible management education? Is this part of an agenda for change?
7. Technology, Big Data, and RME - looking to the future: What are the tensions and cutting edge issues of how digital technologies and data analysis practices support and contest RME? What place is there for gamification, virtual laboratories and other online technologies in RME education?
8. Change agents: How can socially responsible values hold up under business pressures? How have RME methods created lasting effects in the workplace?
Both Roz (located in GMT time zone) and Jennifer (located in GMT -4 time zone, EDT/EST) are available for further consultation on this process.
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