Handbook of Experiential Learning and Management Education

466 Pages·2008·2 MB·English

by  Michael Reynolds

the handbook of
EXPERIENTIAL
LEARNING AND
MANAGEMENT
EDUCATION
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the handbook of
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EXPERIENTIAL
LEARNING AND
MANAGEMENT
EDUCATION
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Editedby
MICHAEL REYNOLDS
and
RUSS VINCE
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ListofContributors ix
Introduction:ExperientialLearningandManagement
Education:KeyThemesandFutureDirections 1
RussVince&MichaelReynolds
PART I FUNDAMENTAL IDEAS AND
THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
1. Double-LoopLearninginaClassroomSetting 21
ChrisArgyris
2. AGoodPlaceforCHAT:ActivityTheoryand
MBAEducation 35
JeffGold,RobinHolt,&RichardThorpe
3. LearningaboutandthroughAestheticExperience:Understanding
thePowerofExperience-BasedEducation 53
M.AnnWelsh,GordonE.Dehler,&DaleL.Murray
4. AestheticsinTeachingOrganizationStudies 70
AntonioStrati
PART II THE DIVERSITY OF CLASSROOM
EXPERIENCE
5. ExperientialLearningwithoutWorkExperience:Reflectingon
Studyingas‘PracticalActivity’ 87
KeijoRäsänen&KirsiKorpiaho
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6. MakingaDramaoutofaCrisis?‘PerformativeLearning’inthe
PoliceService 105
RuthColquhoun,NelarineCornelius,MerettaElliott,
AmarMistry,&StephenSmith
7. ExperientialLearningintheOn-LineEnvironment:Enhancing
On-LineTeachingandLearning 123
JosephE.Champoux
8. ImplementingExperientialLearning:It’snotRocketScience 137
MartinJ.Hornyak,SteveG.Green,&KurtA.Heppard
PART III POLITICALLY GROUNDED
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
9. TalesofOrdinaryLeadership:AFeministApproachto
ExperientialLearning 155
SilviaGherardi&BarbaraPoggio
10. TheatreinManagementandOrganizationDevelopment:
ACritiqueofCurrentTrends 169
JohnCoopey
11. WildernessExperienceinEducationforEcology 187
PeterReason
12. Blue-EyedGirl?JaneElliott’sExperientialLearningand
Anti-Racism 202
ElaineSwan
13. ChoosingExperientialMethodsforManagementEducation:
TheFitofActionLearningandProblem-BasedLearning 221
AnneHerbert&SariStenfors
PART IV EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING AND
SYSTEMS PSYCHODYNAMICS
14. PicturesfrombelowtheSurfaceoftheUniversity:TheSocial
Photo-MatrixasaMethodforUnderstandingOrganizations
inDepth 241
BurkardSievers
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15. BecomingBetterConsultantsthroughVarietiesof
ExperientialLearning 258
JeanE.Neumann
16. BalancingtheOn-LineTeachingofCriticalExperientialDesign:
ACautionaryTaleofParallelProcess 274
ElizabethCreese
17. IntegratingExperientialLearningthrough‘Live’Projects:A
PsychodynamicAccount 291
PaulaHyde
PART V DOCTORAL STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCE
OF LEARNING
18. ExperiencingScholarlyWritingthroughaCollaborativeCourse
Project:ReviewingSomeoftheLiteratureontheLearning
Organization 309
AndreaD.Ellinger(&DoctoralStudents)
19. ExperiencingaCollectiveModelofDoctoralResearch
Supervision 327
SandraJones(&DoctoralStudents)
20.DrawingsasaLinktoEmotionalData:ASlipperyTerritory 345
TusseSideniusJensen,JaneRohdeVoigt,EnricoMaria
Piras,&BenteRugaardThorsen
PART VI CRITICALLY FOCUSED EXPERIENTIAL
LEARNING
21. PowerandExperience:EmancipationthroughGuided
LeadershipNarratives 363
AnnaB.Kayes
22. WorkOrientationsandManagerialPractices:AnExperientialand
TheoreticalLearningEvent 376
TonyWatson
23. MaximumDisorder:WorkingExperientiallywithHRMand
BusinessStudiesUndergraduates 388
JaneThompson&TracyLamping
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24.WorkingwithExperientialLearning:ACriticalPerspective
inPractice 400
KiranTrehan&ClareRigg
CONCLUSION:InstitutionalBarrierstoExperiential
LearningRevisited 417
D.ChristopherKayes
AuthorIndex 433
SubjectIndex 441
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Chris Argyris has received thirteen honorary doctorate degrees and is author of
thirty-threebooksandmonographsaswellasnumerousarticles.Recognitionofhis
lifetime contribution includes awards from the Academy of Management, Ameri-
can Psychological Association, American Society for Training and Development,
andtheFinancialTimes.HismostrecentbooksincludeFlawedAdvice(2000)and
ReasonsandRationalizations(2004),bothOxfordUniversityPress.
Joseph E. Champoux is a Regents’ Professor of Management at the Robert O.
Anderson Schools of Management of the University of New Mexico. His research
activitiesfocusonfilmasateachingresourceandenhancementsforon-linecourses.
He has published articles in several scholarly journals, eleven book chapters, and
thirtyprintorelectronicbooks.
John Coopey, a visiting fellow in Management Learning at Lancaster, has created
unusual links between organizational learning and power and politics. Currently
John is attempting to theorize how pressures from campaigning groups within
global civil society trigger processes of learning and institutional and structural
changeinthebusinessorganizationstheytarget.
NelarineCorneliusisReaderinHumanResourceManagementandOrganizational
Behaviour, Brunel Business School, where she is Director of the Centre for Re-
searchintoEmotionWork(CREW)andHeadoftheOrganizationalBehaviourand
Employment Relations Research group. Her research interests include workplace
diversityandinequality,andemotionandwork.
LizCreeseengagedwithaGroupRelationsapproachtoexperientiallearningsome
eighteenyearsagoasanartsmanagerstudyingaGraduateDiplomainOrganization
Behaviour at Swinburne University of Technology. She has since continued the
‘struggle’ in both her research and teaching, face to face and on-line, at various
Australianuniversities.
GordonE.Dehler(Ph.D.,UniversityofCincinnati)isonthemanagementfaculty
at the College of Charleston. His scholarly interests centre on critical views of
organizations and management, particularly in understanding the place of criti-
cal pedagogy in management education. His published work includes papers in
ManagementLearning,AcademyofManagementJournal,andJournalofManagerial
Psychology.HeisanassociateeditorforthejournalManagementLearning.