"If you encounter a Brit at the Academy of Management I exhort you to treat them to dinner at restaurant with a great bar.
Cybercollegially,
Charles Wankel
http://managment-education.net/rmed4 <http://managment-education.net/rmed4> "
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What a generous offer Charles. I shall keep an eye out for you :-)
Or you may be interested in coming to our symposium on practice based learning where you can encounter 3 Brits and (1 Yank) who have braved the 11 hour queues and terrorist threats not to mention the airline food to start a conversation in Atlanta . Should you be planning to come you can find short papers from each contributor at the following url:
http://cetl.open.ac.uk/pbpl/p5_4.shtml
If this interests you read the papers (they are short) and come along equipped for a lively discussion.
best regards
Mark Fenton-O'Creevy
Director, Centre for Practice Based Learning
Open University
Program Session #: 809 | Submission: 12643 | Sponsor(s): (MED)
Scheduled: Monday, Aug 14 2006 2:30PM - 3:50PM at Hyatt Regency Atlanta in University
Developing Managers Not Academics: Towards a Pedagogy of Practice
Creating Managers v Academics
Recent critiques of management curricula and teaching pay particular attention to the disconnect between the formal knowledge and analytical techniques conveyed in management programs and the messy, ambiguous nature of management practice which emphasizes tacit and self regulative knowledge. However, it would be unhelpful to construct a curriculum, purely dominated by practice knowing. The most effective learning experiences for managers will be those that subject their existing understandings to challenge and widen their repertoire of perspectives. The challenge for management educators is to pay attention to both practice relevance and to providing appropriate challenge to program participants' perceptions of the 'real world'. The route to achieving this combination of relevance and challenge is to see management education as a process of designing learning environments and experiences, not as a process of transmitting a body of knowledge. Program participants' previous, current and shared experiences are a rich resource for learning and rich learning often comes out of the collision between different experiences or 'real worlds,'; between different perspectives, theories and practices. However, such an approach confronts us with some significant challenges. This symposium will explore these challenges and themes.
Come prepared to join in the discussion.
Search Terms: management learning, practice-based learning, pedagogy
A Dialectical Approach to Practice Based Learning
Author: Mark Fenton-O'Creevy; Open U.; <mailto:
m.p.fenton-ocreevy@open.ac.uk>
Author: Peter Knight; Open U., U.K.; <mailto:
peter.knight@open.ac.uk>
Search Terms: None
Scaffolding or Provocation? Relational Processes Emerging Within Professional Learning.
Author: Caroline Ramsey; Open University Business School; <mailto:
C.R.Ramsey@open.ac.uk>
Search Terms: None
From Management Trainer to Management Educator: Challenges and Lessons Learned
Author: Kathryn Aten; U. of Oregon; <mailto:
katen@uoregon.edu>
Search Terms: None
Blending Formal and Informal Approaches to Management Learning
Author: Steven Armstrong; U. of Hull; <mailto:
stevearmstrong@welton-lincoln.freeserve.co.uk>
Search Terms: None
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From: Management Education and Development Discussion on behalf of Charles Wankel
Sent: Thu 10/08/2006 17:08
To:
MG-ED-DV@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
Subject: Take a Brit out to dinner
I have received reports of Brits trying to get to Atlanta coping with cancelled flights and other nasty things. If you encounter a Brit at the Academy of Management I exhort you to treat them to dinner at restaurant with a great bar.
Cybercollegially,
Charles Wankel
http://managment-education.net/rmed4