Chapter 6

Achieving the Goals of Multi-disciplinary Thinking

. . . Humanities have been delineated by Ronald S. Crane (1886–1967) as the cultivation of four essential “arts: language, analysis of ideas, literary and artistic criticism, and historiography.” . . . Humanities scholarship and education are dedicated to understanding human experience through the disciplined development of insight, perspective, critical understanding, discernment, and creativity.

—Cole, et al.1

Keywords

Business education, higher education, multi-frame thinking, theory in the business curriculum, research, critical thinking, interdisciplinary collaboration

Introduction

Imagine a first-year student who is sure she wants to major in business. She does not yet see the ...

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