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The starting point in Diagram 4 is the relationship between

the student and the lecturer. This relationship is not a

distant one. The audience he targets the business case

study at will influence the lecturer. He will be aware of the

components underpinning the business case study (see

Diagram 1) and will adjust his approach to account for them.

Simply put business case study questions should not be set

in isolation of the wider contextual frame of reference.

The Problem

The Kolb model, as depicted in diagram 4 (concrete

experiences; observation and reflection; formulation of

abstract concepts; and testing implications) when applied to

business case study development, helps the lecturer, to

broadly focus his/her attention on each stage of the model

and design appropriate questions that ensure that these

encourage student reflection, conceptualisation and ways of

testing ideas.

Subsumed below this constructivist, experiential learning

aspect is the more structured constructs of the problem, the