TY - JOUR

T1 - Critical management education

T2 - Selected auto-ethnographic vignettes on how attachment to identity may disrupt learning

AU - Knights, David

AU - Huber, Guy

AU - Longman, Richard

PY - 2022/7/1

Y1 - 2022/7/1

N2 - In this essay, we explore the underlying processes of identity work in teaching from a critical management education (CME) perspective. Identity is a concern for both teachers and students and especially where the assumptions and routines on which it is grounded are challenged as in a CME learning environment. Through auto-ethnographic accounts of our teaching experience, we focus on the problems that result from being attached to an identity and how this might be explored through reflexive participative learning. Identity work describes the pursuit of these attachments without challenging the pursuit itself. A distinctive part of o2ur contribution is to consider how in taking identity for granted as a laudatory accomplishment, CME scholars often fail to recognise how our attachment to it can be an obstacle for management learning. To conclude, we speculate on the implications of our pedagogy for inculcating more critical forms of identity work, through which we might free ourselves to think and engage with the world differently.

AB - In this essay, we explore the underlying processes of identity work in teaching from a critical management education (CME) perspective. Identity is a concern for both teachers and students and especially where the assumptions and routines on which it is grounded are challenged as in a CME learning environment. Through auto-ethnographic accounts of our teaching experience, we focus on the problems that result from being attached to an identity and how this might be explored through reflexive participative learning. Identity work describes the pursuit of these attachments without challenging the pursuit itself. A distinctive part of o2ur contribution is to consider how in taking identity for granted as a laudatory accomplishment, CME scholars often fail to recognise how our attachment to it can be an obstacle for management learning. To conclude, we speculate on the implications of our pedagogy for inculcating more critical forms of identity work, through which we might free ourselves to think and engage with the world differently.

KW - Attachment to identities

KW - critical management education

KW - engaged teaching and learning

KW - identity work

U2 - 10.1177/13505076211049868

DO - 10.1177/13505076211049868

M3 - Journal article

VL - 53

SP - 605

EP - 616

JO - Management Learning

JF - Management Learning

SN - 1350-5076

IS - 3

ER -