Management Education: Classifying Business Curricula and Conceptualizing Transfers and Bridges
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Traditionally, higher academic education has favored the acquisition of individualized conceptual knowledge over context-independent procedural knowledge. Applied degrees, on the other hand, favor procedural knowledge. We present a conceptual model for classifying a business curriculum. This classification could inform discussion around the difficulties associated with issues such as assessment of prior learning, as well as transfers and bridges from applied degrees to baccalaureate degrees in business education.
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