This book constitutes an exploration of an episode of change in a tertiary educational institution. The change episode in question concerns an educational product which is the Masters of Business Information Technology (MBIT). This is a postgraduate coursework program. A need has been discerned to continuously change this product in an evolutionary manner in order to align it with market, government and technological shifts and to accommodate the diversity of students needs. The start and finish of the episode in question are marked by validation of MBIT product change...

Pragmatism and American Experience provides a lucid and elegant introduction to America's defining philosophy. Joan Richardson charts the nineteenth-century origins of pragmatist thought and its development through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on the major first- and second-generation figures and how their contributions continue to influence philosophical discourse today. At the same time, Richardson casts pragmatism as the method it was designed to be: a way of making ideas clear, examining beliefs, and breaking old habits and reinforcing new and useful ones in the...