Creating culturally relevant curricula and pedagogy: Rethinking fashion business and management education in UK business schools

Ranjit Thind; Hanna Yakavenka

doi:10.1016/j.ijme.2023.100870

Creating culturally relevant curricula and pedagogy: Rethinking fashion business and management education in UK business schools

Ranjit Thind
, Hanna Yakavenka

University of the Arts London
Coventry University London

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Abstract

The dominant western contemporary fashion business and management-related curriculum at business schools in the United Kingdom continues to uphold an Anglo-Eurocentric narrative, which limits knowledge and practice for local and international students in fostering unbiased and democratic global approaches. This study aims to tackle these pedagogical gaps by using a constructivist approach as a theoretical frame to design and deliver a culturally relevant curriculum and pedagogy (CRCP). The research followed an in-depth three-stage qualitative investigation involving thematic analysis of programme websites and descriptors, key informant interviews with educators, and student-led focus group feedback. Among the major contributions of this study is the creation of a learning framework as a pedagogic device to aid institutions and educators. This exploratory study is the first to examine how to create and deliver a CRCP in the domain of fashion business and management studies and provides important implications.

Original language	English
Article number	100870
Number of pages	14
Journal	International Journal of Management Education
Volume	21
Issue number	3
Early online date	20 Sept 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2023.100870
Publication status	Published - Nov 2023
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

Culturally relevant curriculum
Decolonisation
Fashion management
Higher education

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Education
Strategy and Management

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