Politics in Business Higher Education (HE) Courses: Curriculum Design, Teaching, Learning and Assessment.

Abstract

This article explores politics as a context subject on business degree programmes. Interpretation of quality and regulatory body stipulations, alongside curriculum design theory, is used to derive guideline specifics on essential politics content to include, namely ideologies, executive/legislature structures and business lobbying processes. Specifics on the positioning and sequencing of the politics content are similarly derived. Reflection on challenge issues on teaching politics to business students is undertaken in context of learning theory to arrive at constructive approaches both for in class delivery and for assessment, including student group work design of manifestos for business.