The internet in undergraduate management education: A concern for neophytes among metaphors

Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 437-450

  Amernic, Joel H ^a   Craig, Russell J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Education; Internet; Management; Metaphor; Pedagogy; Technology

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; HIGHER EDUCATION; INTERNET;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033381186     PISSN: 08109028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08109029908632121     Document Type: Article

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97. The literature to which students are referred comprises Reddy, op. cit.; C. Forceville, 'IBM is a tuning fork: degrees of freedom in the interpretation of pictorial metaphors', Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media and the Arts, 23, 1995, pp. 189-218; Walters-York, op. cit.; and J. H. Amernic, "'Close readings" of Internet corporate financial reporting: towards a more critical pedagogy on the information highway', The Internet and Higher Education, 1, 2, 1998, pp. 87-112.
98. The literature to which students are referred comprises Reddy, op. cit.; C. Forceville, 'IBM is a tuning fork: degrees of freedom in the interpretation of pictorial metaphors', Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media and the Arts, 23, 1995, pp. 189-218; Walters-York, op. cit.; and J. H. Amernic, "'Close readings" of Internet corporate financial reporting: towards a more critical pedagogy on the information highway', The Internet and Higher Education, 1, 2, 1998, pp. 87-112.
99. The literature to which students are referred comprises Reddy, op. cit.; C. Forceville, 'IBM is a tuning fork: degrees of freedom in the interpretation of pictorial metaphors', Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media and the Arts, 23, 1995, pp. 189-218; Walters-York, op. cit.; and J. H. Amernic, "'Close readings" of Internet corporate financial reporting: towards a more critical pedagogy on the information highway', The Internet and Higher Education, 1, 2, 1998, pp. 87-112.
100. The literature to which students are referred comprises Reddy, op. cit.; C. Forceville, 'IBM is a tuning fork: degrees of freedom in the interpretation of pictorial metaphors', Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media and the Arts, 23, 1995, pp. 189-218; Walters-York, op. cit.; and J. H. Amernic, "'Close readings" of Internet corporate financial reporting: towards a more critical pedagogy on the information highway', The Internet and Higher Education, 1, 2, 1998, pp. 87-112.
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