Open AccessMilitary Doctrine Development and Curriculum Development
Author(s) -
Joseph L Walden
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of curriculum and teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1927-2685
pISSN - 1927-2677
DOI - 10.5430/jct.v8n2p17
Subject(s) - syllabus , doctrine , curriculum , curriculum development , world war ii , work (physics) , political science , the arts , engineering ethics , liberal arts education , sociology , management , engineering , public relations , law , higher education , economics , mechanical engineering
One of the complaints about the development of military doctrine over the past several decades is that “we arealways preparing to fight the last war.” One of the complaints that surfaced during a four year long study into thedevelopment of a common framework for supply chain management curriculum development was that the text booksused in the curriculum development process were out of date. In other words, we are preparing students for the realworld by teaching them about the historical business world and not the emerging business world. While thisapproach may work in the liberal arts such as history, it is in the words of Freire, doing a disservice to the studentsand not adequately preparing them for the real world. This study looks at a methodology for developing businessschool curriculums in particular. The study reviewed syllabi, job announcements, and textbooks for the top ratedschools and for those not in the Top 25. The gap between what industry is asking for and what schools are teaching ismuch wider for the not-Top 25 schools than for the top ranked schools.