Handbook of Experiential Learning and Management Education

by Michael Reynolds (Editor), Russ Vince (Editor)

Overview

While Experiential Learning has been an influential methods in the education and development of managers and management students, it has also been one of the most misunderstood. This Handbook offers the reader a comprehensive picture of current thinking on experiential learning; ideas and examples of experiential learning in practice; and it emphasises the importance of experiential learning to the future of management education. Contributors include: Chris Argyris, Joseph Champoux, D. Christopher Kayes, Ruth Colquhoun, John Coopey, Nelarine Cornelius, Elizabeth L. Creese, Gordon Dehler, Andrea Ellinger, Meretta Elliott, Silvia Gherardi, Jeff Gold, Steve G. Green, Kurt Heppard, Anne Herbert, Robin Holt, Martin J. Hornyak, Paula Hyde, Tusse Sidenius Jensen, Sandra Jones, Anna Kayes, Kirsi Korpiaho, Tracy Lamping, Enrico Maria Piras, Amar Mistry, Dale Murray, Jean Neumann, Barbara Poggio, Keijo Räsänen, Peter Reason, Michael Reynolds, Clare Rigg, Bente Rugaard Thorsen, Burkard Sievers, Stephen Smith, Sari Stenfors, Antonio Strati, Elaine Swan, Jane Thompson, Richard Thorpe, Kiran Trehan, Russ Vince, Jane Rohde Voight, Tony Watson, and Ann Welsh.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191607615
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	11/15/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Michael Reynolds and Russ Vince are both management teachers and researchers who have taken a particular interest in researching and writing on the theory and practice of management education. As this volume illustrates, their concern has been management education's methodologies and how these relate to the organizational contexts in which managers work. Michael Reynolds is Emeritus Professor of Management Learning at Lancaster University Management School. Russ Vince is Professor of Leadership and Change at the School of Management, the University of Bath. Their previous collaboration includes Organizing Reflection, a collection of papers in which contributors developed the concept and practice of reflection from an individual to a collective process.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors     ix
Introduction: Experiential Learning and Management Education: Key Themes and Future Directions   Russ Vince   Michael Reynolds     1
Fundamental Ideas and Theoretical Developments in Experiential Learning
Double-Loop Learning in a Classroom Setting   Chris Argyris     21
A Good Place for CHAT: Activity Theory and MBA Education   Jeff Gold   Robin Holt   Richard Thorpe     35
Learning about and through Aesthetic Experience: Understanding the Power of Experience-Based Education   M. Ann Welsh   Gordon E. Dehler   Dale L. Murray     53
Aesthetics in Teaching Organization Studies   Antonio Strati     70
The Diversity of Classroom Experience
Experiential Learning without Work Experience: Reflecting on Studying as 'Practical Activity"   Keijo Rasanen   Kirsi Korpiaho     87
Making a Drama out of a Crisis? 'Performative Learning' in the Police Service   Ruth Colquhoun   Nelarine Cornelius   Meretta Elliott   Amar Mistry   Stephen Smith     105
Experiential Learning in the On-Line Environment: Enhancing On-Line Teaching and Learning   Joseph E. Champoux     123
Implementing Experiential Learning: It's not Rocket Science   Martin J.Hornyak   Steve G. Green   Kurt A. Heppard     137
Politically Grounded Experiential Learning
Tales of Ordinary Leadership: A Feminist Approach to Experiential Learning   Silvia Gherardi   Barbara Poggio     155
Theatre in Management and Organization Development: A Critique of Current Trends   John Coopey     169
Wilderness Experience in Education for Ecology   Peter Reason     187
Blue-Eyed Girl? Jane Elliott's Experiential Learning and Anti-Racism   Elaine Swan     202
Choosing Experiential Methods for Management Education: The Fit of Action Learning and Problem-Based Learning   Anne Herbert   Sari Stenfors     221
Experiential Learning and Systems Psychodynamics
Pictures from below the Surface of the University: The Social Photo-Matrix as a Method for Understanding Organizations in Depth   Burkard Sievers     241
Becoming Better Consultants through Varieties of Experiential Learning   Jean E. Neumann     258
Balancing the On-Line Teaching of Critical Experiential Design: A Cautionary Tale of Parallel Process   Elizabeth Creese     274
Integrating Experiential Learning through 'Live' Projects: A Psychodynamic Account   Paula Hyde     291
Doctoral Students' Experience of Learning
Experiencing Scholarly Writing through a Collaborative Course Project: Reviewing Some of the Literature on the Learning Organization   Andrea D. Ellinger   Doctoral Students     309
Experiencing a Collective Model of Doctoral Research Supervision   Sandra Jones   Doctoral Students     327
Drawings as a Link to Emotional Data: A Slippery Territory   Tusse Sidenius Jensen   Jane Rohde Voigt   Enrico Maria Piras   Bente Rugaard Thorsen     345
Critically Focused Experiential Learning
Power and Experience: Emancipation through Guided Leadership Narratives   Anna B. Kayes     363
Work Orientations and Managerial Practices: An Experiential and Theoretical Learning Event   Tony Watson     376
Maximum Disorder: Working Experientially with HRM and Business Studies Undergraduates   Jane Thompson   Tracy Lamping     388
Working with Experiential Learning: A Critical Perspective in Practice   Kiran Trehan   Clare Rigg     400
Conclusion: Institutional Barriers to Experiential Learning Revisited   D. Christopher Kayes     417
Author Index     433
Subject Index     441