THE ROLE OF THE COACH IN THE INTRODUCTION PROCESS OF A LEARNING BY DOING BASED EDUCATIONAL METHOD IN HUNGARY – AN EXPERIENCE BASED STUDY

Abstract

Twenty years ago with the core idea of team learning, a brand new educational method, the Finnish originated educational method; the so-called Team Academy was introduced. Team-entrepreneurs – previously students – operate as independent companies in form of corporative and learn by run real-life projects. These independent companies use also different tools as student in the traditional educational system: use dialogue as a tool to share knowledge and think together, as well as tradition frontal teaching is replaced by trainings and self-improvement is done by learning by doing. Teachers are also not called anymore teachers, instead team coaches. Being a team coach requires different competences and mentality than teaching. In September 2012 the system was introduced at Budapest Business School Faculty of Finance and Accountancy. In this article as a form of case study we share our experiences and challenges of the first semester.

Keywords

• team coaching, learning-by-doing, team academy, introduction, higher education

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