This book unites international contributors in management, corporate communications, and information technology to reveal recent thinking in management education. The book’s 15 chapters deal with topics including the role of the instructor in virtual environments, crowd learning, leadership models in education, IT infrastructure in education, and transdisciplinary learning (TDL) as an innovative pedagogy in universities. Of special interest is a chapter on transcendental meditation in management education, written by a contributor from Maharishi University of Management in the US and outlining the latest research in Consciousness-Based Education (CBE).
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The chapter “Effective Change in Educational Institutions: Does the Construct of Power Influence Management and Leadership Models in Everyday Professional Practice?” is particularly helpful, in which the authors determine the role of the leader in the introduction and integration of educational innovation process. [...] A very useful resource for Indian researchers of teaching methodology and innovative learning environments.
– Barbara Masourou, Ph.D, University of Athens, Greece
Leadership is a mental tool, which helps to deal with the complexity of our times and to overturn traditional beliefs and outdated perceptions based on behaviorism, mechanistic learning and traditional management. This publication is not only a great help for researchers of pedagogy, graduate and undergraduate students, and academic staff, but is useful to any scientist who seeks new intellectual tools. It is necessary and useful for all demographics, a valuable tool for development and substantial improvement of the current way of thinking and behavior. A challenge and self driver, this title creates a strong desire for continuous improvement and excellent performance and shows the way to achieve them.
– Achilleas Efthimiopoulos, PhD, University of Athens, Greece