Rethinking Management Education
Rethinking Management Education
Summary
This text is a challenge to conventional thinking on management education and its utilitarian relationship to management research and practice. The contributions aim to foster an understanding of management education which deals adequately with developments in management knowledge.
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Rethinking Management Education by Robert French
At a time of ever-increasing debate about orthodox approaches to management education, and their application in the post-industrial era, this innovative book brings together the work of authors actively engaged in developing new forms of education. The introduction contrasts dominant utilitarian and functionalist conceptions of management education with various alternatives. It argues the need for a critical and pluralistic form of management education whereby participants are introduced to the full diversity of appropriate perspectives and debates. The remainder of the book echoes this commitment by exploring a range of approaches, including those based in psychoanalysis, critical theory and poststructuralism. Throughout the book, there is a focus is upon the implications of problematizing management knowledge so as to facilitate alternative and critical modalities of teaching and learning. In this context management is seen not simply as a bundle of skills and techniques but, rather, as a complex social, political and moral practice.`Each of the papers in this book is a rich working out of its particular theme, and each relates well to the agenda laid out by the editors in the introduction. The papers are challenging, mostly well written, and address fundamentally important issues for all who are involved in management education. The book lives up to its title, which should also be seen as a warning; academics involved in the field are likely to find themselves challenged on aspects of their own teaching. It might be particularly useful for management departments to take this book and work through it in seminars, and together to engage in "rethinking management education"′ - The Occupational Psychologist
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ISBN 13 | 9780803977839 |
ISBN 10 | 0803977832 |
Title | Rethinking Management Education |
Author | Robert French |
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Binding Type | Paperback |
Publisher | Sage Publications Ltd |
Year published | 1996-02-14 |
Number of pages | 224 |
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