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Bright Lights and the pastoral idyll: ideas of community underlying management education methodologies

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Bright Lights and the pastoral idyll: ideas of community underlying management education methodologies. / Reynolds, Michael.
In: Management Learning, Vol. 31, No. 1, 03.2000, p. 67-81.

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Reynolds M. Bright Lights and the pastoral idyll: ideas of community underlying management education methodologies. Management Learning. 2000 Mar;31(1):67-81. doi: 10.1177/1350507600311006

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abstract = "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.",
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