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Lean Education: An Overview of Current Issues

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This chapter introduces the contextual issues that motivated this book project. Perspectives from Lean Operations to Lean Education are presented by several authors. To begin the book, it is important to have a concept of the Lean Education concept. The preface by Murman delineates that Lean Education includes both the inclusion of Lean Thinking as curriculum content and as a method of improving educational delivery. The thought of a Lean School or undergraduate or graduate Lean degree, for example, seems imminent, based on this preface.

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  1. Centro ALGORITMI, Department of Production and Systems, School of Engineering, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Anabela Carvalho Alves

  2. Department of Organizational Leadership, School of Education and Human Services, Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Shannon Flumerfelt

  3. Kahlen Global Professional Solutions, Fabrikstraße 3, 48599, Gronau, Germany

    Franz-Josef Kahlen

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Carvalho Alves, A., Flumerfelt, S., Kahlen, FJ. (2017). Introduction. In: Alves, A., Flumerfelt, S., Kahlen, FJ. (eds) Lean Education: An Overview of Current Issues. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45830-4_1

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