Lean Construction Journal – Special Issue Call for Lean Education: Principles, Practices, and Simulations for Enhancing Lean Education and Training

Abstract

The purpose of this special issue is to help identify and gather the emerging methods, technology, approaches, and advancing standards for well-known educational modules, simulations, and games as well as new content that can enhance the understanding of lean principles, methods, and practices. This call summarizes the topics, scope, and timeline to elicit submissions for the special issue gathering content related to Enhancing Lean Education and Training. The lean construction community has a rich history of engaging its students in active simulations and educational practices that use experiential learning. While the lean community and adoption of lean methods and systems have grown significantly across the construction industry, the methods of teaching and training the next generation of lean practitioners have continued to grow and evolve. The practices and modules that are developed by academics or industry practitioners are often maintained in small communities but not easily accessible for use and advancement of the industry, and vice versa with industry firms creating their own versions or new content. In addition to teaching lean in academic environments, lean education and training is applied extensively in industry training environments. As projects develop new methods of onboarding and training team members, or as projects find new or better processes for capturing reflective experience sharing and project-related learning, these practices benefit from greater dissemination and feedback from other teams or lean community members.