Open AccessDidactics and corporative education: the entrepreneurial challenge of continuous education
Author(s) -
Eliane Maria Pires Giavina Bianchi
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
revista ibero-americana de estratégia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2176-0756
DOI - 10.5585/ijsm.v7i1.969
Subject(s) - corporation , reflection (computer programming) , process (computing) , public relations , human resources , sociology , business , management , pedagogy , political science , economics , computer science , finance , programming language , operating system
The expressive increase of corporate universities, as an answer to changes in the economic scenario and to the perceived deficiency in the formal education; turn those entities in an important player in the educational process. The preoccupation with teaching and learning strategies is fundamental to the establishment of human competencies: keys to personal development, enterprise growth and, consequently, to the progress of the nations. This article has the objective of promote a reflection on didactics practices used in corporate education, using a case study in a corporate university of an international information provider company. It is not conclusive, but the corporation has a rich environment to use technical teaching and learning resources, but the transformation of the organizational managers into educator is not in place yet.