Classroom-as-Organization and XB
Conference Announcement
You are invited to an active and engaging conference on” Improving the
Classroom-as-Organization to deliver transformative learning” Using
eXperience Based learning (XB - Manual For A Learning Organization) for
engaging students with the theories and practices of Organizational Behavior
VENUE: Jericho, near Burlington, VT (USA)
DATES: July 22nd to July 25th, 2008.
BACKGROUND: Several dozen of us OB, Management, Education, and Human
Resources educators approach our classes as organizations to manage
rather than courses to teach. Cohen et al.'s Effective Behavior in
Organizations introduced this concept; Putzel's XB - Manual For A
Learning Organization focuses it on experience-based learning in a
functionally differentiated classroom organization. Other teachers have
invented their own classroom organizations.
DETAILS: We invite anyone interested in knowing more about these
experiential teaching/learning strategies, and in discussing how to
manage a class instead of teaching it, who believes in experiential and
conceptual learning, and who wants to spend a few days with enthusiastic
colleagues in the hills of Vermont near Lake Champlain and Montréal.
We will build the conference around the needs and desires of
participants, whoever we are, interested in the
classroom-as-organization approach (not necessarily XB). Several of us
will be running sessions on the classroom-as-organization at the Babson
Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference. This meeting will help us
set the agenda for the Vermont conference.
Please see
www.xbforum.net for information about XB. If you are
interested in attending the conference, please contact Roger Putzel
(
rputzel@smcvt.edu).