Call for Proposals for:
A LIFETIME OF MANAGEMENT LEARNING: UNIVERSITY AND CORPORATE INNOVATIONS IN LIFE LONG LEARNING
Vol. 6: Research in Management Education and Development series
Charles Wankel and Robert DeFillippi, Editors
Due: December 10, 2005
This sixth volume in the Research in Management Education and Development series (Information Age Publishers) examines the evolution of Life Long Learning (LLL) programs and the distinctive challenges and opportunities in providing life long learning in management education for a workforce that is already academically credentialed but in need of new knowledge, skills and perspectives to fit with a life time of work that may extend thirty or more years beyond their original academic degree qualifications.
Universities are responding to these challenges by creating LLL offerings such as non-degree certificate programs, customized and on-site management development programs, intensive executive education training and development programs, online and distance learning continuing education programs, to name just a few. Companies also sponsor their own LLL programs in-house through corporate education and corporate university management development offerings. Chapter topics include but are not limited to emerging directions of LLL, LLL through new technologies, the crafting of government programs to support LLL, LLL as a response to globalization, skill inflation (the expectation for professionals to know more and more), predictions of future skill and knowledge requirements, research strategies for studying LLL, the evolution of LLL, LLL as a catalyst for organizational change, ongoing integration of field experience and education, structuring (or organizing) LLL, evaluating LLL, societal LLL, the attitudes, motivations, preferred resources, desired settings, and reflective thinking of the active adult learners, learning skills to support autonomous, continuous learning throughout life, individualization, LLL through formal education vs. life-wide learning (in informal settings), fostering autonomous learners, problem-based learning to develop self-directed learning skills, the social context of LLL, networking for LLL.
We invite manuscript proposals that explicitly examine any of the above (or other) topics of LLL in management education and development.
Each chapter should be grounded in relevant theory, empirical research and examples of best practice for life long learning in management education.
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE FOR PUBLICATION:
Book chapter proposals received: December 10, 2005
Notification of accepted chapter proposals: January 10, 2006
Receipt of full book chapters: August 25, 2006
Review book chapters and give feedback: Oct. 15, 2006
Receipt by editors of final draft of book chapters: Dec. 1, 2006
Final book received by publisher: January 15, 2007
Anticipated volume 6 publication: Summer 2007
Submit your chapter proposal by Microsoft Word email attachment. We would most appreciate a three to five page proposal outlining your chapter, identifying your perspective(s) on graduate management education theory and practice. Include as a separate file a brief biography covering your current institutional affiliation and position and a listing of your relevant publications and educational background.
Send proposals and inquiries to both:
Charles Wankel - wankelc@stjohns.edu
and
Robert DeFillippi - rdefilli@suffolk.edu
A recent review of the first volume in this series by Daniel Rowley in the Academy of Management Learning and Education (AMLE), June 2004, 222-223, favorably commented on the wide variety of perspectives regarding what management should look like as presented in this series and found all articles to be thought provoking and informative. The series was described as an excellent podium from which concerns of every management educator will be addressed.