Beyond tolerance: Higher education a haven for

intercultural dialogue and sustainable development ?

Walter Baets, PhDDirector Graduate Programs

Euromed Marseille – Ecole de Management, France

Professor at Nyenrode University, The Netherlands

Diversity and sustainability are epistemological choices

Complex, dynamic, emergentPlanning and control are impossibleThe observer makes the observedConstructivist, holistic

Diversity, multi-interpretableSustainable horizon

Static and mechanicThere exists a truth out thereSubject/object divisionRational/reductionist

One best curriculumThe same for all“A la recherche” of that truth

To lay down the path in walking (Antonio Machado)

Pedagogical metaphors

• Transfer metaphor

• Shaping metaphor

• Traveling metaphor

• Growing metaphor

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Theory

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The fundamentals of management development

The elements of the EAMS approach

The “political” and institutional context

Pedagogical principle (traveling/growing metaphor)

Content and delivery

The role of the tutor (diversity)

A holistic (project driven) management education