Management Knowledge and Education (MKE)
The community for advancing scholarship-informed management education. We are an academy-wide community of practice supporting scholarly-activity, professional development events, networking, and the development of resources to advance management education practice and impact management education policy.
The overarching goals of BAM MKE are:
- To promote the centrality of the scholarship of teaching and learning in Business / Management Schools
- To explore and establish the relevance of other forms of scholarship for education-focused academics
- To provide a programme of development for BAM members to develop their own scholarship profile
Our community comprises academics, practitioners and policy-makers who are interested in management education. We propose that the scholarship of teaching and learning and conventional basic research (the scholarship of discovery) should be valued equally in terms of the status, recognition, and reward for success.
Within MKE we collectively explore, examine and co-construct innovative and progressive educational/teaching practice and scholarship within global Business / Management Schools.
Our programme of activity enables all educators to flourish and addresses the need for evidence-based scholarly professional development for Education- focused career pathways.
Underpinned by the BAM core values of EDIR and Sustainability, our activities focus on rigorous and systematic management education scholarship; professional development; education practice to impact management education policy.
These are detailed below.
Management Education Scholarship
The activities of our community are evidence-based. This evidence is developed through our community’s activities, as well as through our engagement with academic theory and practice.
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Professional Development
MKE supports a broad range of professional development opportunities for all academics and colleagues that champion students’ learning.
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Advancing Education Practice
MKE leads on a range of activities to advance education practice.
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Education Policy Impact
MKE’s activities contribute to influencing management education policy through a series of papers:
- White Paper on Education-Focused Career Tracks in UK Business and Management Schools - which has been produced by the MKE Sub-Committee to address the phenomenon of the growing numbers of education-focused academics on ‘Teaching and Scholarship’ (T&S) contracts, and presents findings of our study into the support, development and recognition this education-focused career path receives in Business and Management Schools, in UK Higher Education Institutions. We make use of these findings to define the form and quality of ‘scholarship’ in an education-focused context, including the new SEEL model, and propose an illustrative set of criteria that recognition this education-focused career path receives in Business Schools and universities can use to develop and promote T&S academics. Read the White Paper HERE.
- Reflective frameworks for the delivery of teaching in multiple modes
- Developing Digital Content for Teaching in online and hybrid modes of delivery
- Education-focused careers within UK Business-Management Schools: The perspectives of their Deans
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