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TY - JOUR
T1 - Bright Lights and the pastoral idyll
T2 - ideas of community underlying management education methodologies
AU - Reynolds, Michael
PY - 2000/3
Y1 - 2000/3
N2 - The idea of community underlies much of the more participative, if not experiential, approaches to management education and development. More recently the idea has entered the conceptual vocabulary of the `learning organization'. The appeal of community lies in its implied promise of solidarity, belonging, and a sense of personal significance. But these promises can mask darker tendencies towards coercion and the assimilation of differences. This article offers a critique of the notion of community. It proposes an alternative basis for a management pedagogy in which differences are the grounds for debate, dispute and understanding, rather than the reason for assimilation or exclusion.
AB - The idea of community underlies much of the more participative, if not experiential, approaches to management education and development. More recently the idea has entered the conceptual vocabulary of the `learning organization'. The appeal of community lies in its implied promise of solidarity, belonging, and a sense of personal significance. But these promises can mask darker tendencies towards coercion and the assimilation of differences. This article offers a critique of the notion of community. It proposes an alternative basis for a management pedagogy in which differences are the grounds for debate, dispute and understanding, rather than the reason for assimilation or exclusion.
U2 - 10.1177/1350507600311006
DO - 10.1177/1350507600311006
M3 - Journal article
VL - 31
SP - 67
EP - 81
JO - Management Learning
JF - Management Learning
SN - 1350-5076
IS - 1
ER -