Teaching with Arts: How Paintings Enrich Classroom Insights and Discussion

This roundtable discussion session explores how paintings from various artists and historical periods contribute to meaningful higher education delivery vis-à-vis contemporary business and management challenges. It highlights in an exemplary manner how paintings contribute to fostering critical reflection abilities of business and management students in areas we label historical awareness, contemporary debates and change of perspective. The aim of this inter-active session is to share experience and discover further possibilities around the use of paint-ings as catalysts of fruitful and mind-opening classroom discussions in typical business and management courses, ultimately serving the greater purpose of Bildung.