Harrison C Keith, Saunders Reggie, Griffin Whitney, Bukstein Scott, Porter Jeffrey, Martin Brandon
College of Business, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States.
Marketing Department, Nike (United States), Beaverton, OR, United States.
Front Sports Act Living. 2024 Feb 15;6:1226233. doi: 10.3389/fspor.2024.1226233. eCollection 2024.
Theory without relevance for practice in a professional graduate degree has been critiqued by some scholars as a deficit approach when preparing MBA students for the workforce. Scholars and practitioners alike call for more pedagogy in the curriculum with a focus on innovation, creativity, and the involvement of industry practitioners. This paper serves as a case study of a moment in time on Monday, 14 June 2021, when the concept of "pracademics" was realized between two artists and two faculty. Following the transcription of the dialogue between two guest speakers from the Hip Hop world (i.e., Fat Joe and DJ Khaled) and two faculty from the sport management MBA program, the paper analyzes the deeper meaning of their intellectual presence with their expertise in the business of culture (i.e., Hip Hop). Findings reveal how the pairing of Hip Hop artists and faculty in an MBA program can address the innovation gap within global business curricula and models. The broader umbrella of pedagogy and application has implications for other academic disciplines to embrace this concept of pairing academics and industry practitioners.
对于专业研究生学位而言，与实践脱节的理论被一些学者批评为在为工商管理硕士（MBA）学生进入职场做准备时的一种缺陷方法。学者和从业者都呼吁在课程中增加更多教学内容，重点关注创新、创造力以及行业从业者的参与。本文是一个关于2021年6月14日星期一某个时刻的案例研究，当时两位艺术家和两位教员之间实现了“实践学者”的概念。在记录了来自嘻哈界的两位客座演讲者（即Fat Joe和DJ Khaled）与体育管理MBA项目的两位教员之间的对话后，本文分析了他们凭借在文化商业（即嘻哈）方面的专业知识所展现的知识内涵的深层意义。研究结果揭示了在MBA项目中嘻哈艺术家与教员的配对如何能够弥合全球商业课程和模式中的创新差距。更广泛的教学法和应用范畴对其他学术学科接纳学者与行业从业者配对这一概念具有启示意义。
