The Agribusiness Community as a Laboratory for Teaching Business Management: An Experiment in Undergraduate and Adult Education

Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to explain the role of parents in teaching business management to their children from an early age for the success of family business succession. Methodology: It was a qualitative study and data were collected by observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation. The focus of this study was the succession process of the PekalonganBatik business analyzed from the entrepreneurial learning perspective. Interview questions focused on entrepreneurial learning and how parents teaching business management. Interviews conducted into 6 Informants. Each interview took between 35 – 45 minutes. Main Finding: The results of this study showed that parents usually introduced business management to their children from an early age. They made their children involved in the business to know about the planning, producing and marketing of Batik cloths. The indicators of giving entrepreneurial learning to children are involving them in business activities; they learned to manage the business by doing those activities at their parents’business. Implications/Applications: This study can be useful for another batik enterprises center to guidelines for succession. Novelty/Originality: This research was to explore the parents to involve their children from an early age to help manage businesses in preparation for business succession.

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Teaching business, management and accountancy

A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education ◽

10.4324/9780429259500-22 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 276-290

Author(s):

Dominique A. Greer ◽

Abby Cathcart ◽

Larry Neale

Keyword(s):

Business Management ◽

Teaching Business

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Understanding functional illiteracy from a policy, adult education, and cognition point of view: Towards a joint referent framework

Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie ◽

10.1024/1016-264x/a000255 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 109-122

Author(s):

Aleksandar Bulajić ◽

Miomir Despotović ◽

Thomas Lachmann

Keyword(s):

Adult Education ◽

Operational Definition ◽

Literacy Skills ◽

Point Of View ◽

Industrialized Countries ◽

Functional Illiteracy ◽

Scale Levels ◽

Components Of Reading ◽

The One ◽

Definition Of

Abstract. The article discusses the emergence of a functional literacy construct and the rediscovery of illiteracy in industrialized countries during the second half of the 20th century. It offers a short explanation of how the construct evolved over time. In addition, it explores how functional (il)literacy is conceived differently by research discourses of cognitive and neural studies, on the one hand, and by prescriptive and normative international policy documents and adult education, on the other hand. Furthermore, it analyses how literacy skills surveys such as the Level One Study (leo.) or the PIAAC may help to bridge the gap between cognitive and more practical and educational approaches to literacy, the goal being to place the functional illiteracy (FI) construct within its existing scale levels. It also sheds more light on the way in which FI can be perceived in terms of different cognitive processes and underlying components of reading. By building on the previous work of other authors and previous definitions, the article brings together different views of FI and offers a perspective for a needed operational definition of the concept, which would be an appropriate reference point for future educational, political, and scientific utilization.

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