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TY - JOUR
T1 - Wild frontiers
T2 - reflections on experiential learning
AU - Reynolds, Michael
PY - 2009/9
Y1 - 2009/9
N2 - Experiential learning is currently prominent in management—including ‘critical’ management, pedagogy. This article reflects on the contribution of experiential learning to management education and on the resistance it has sometimes evoked, both from academics and managers. On the basis of these observations I suggest that the significance of experiential learning is not only as an alternative way of learning but in the social and political values that it brings to both educational and organizational contexts. In view of recent post-heroic developments in conceptions of leadership, I speculate that there could be currently a better match between experiential learning approaches and organizational practice than had previously been the case.
AB - Experiential learning is currently prominent in management—including ‘critical’ management, pedagogy. This article reflects on the contribution of experiential learning to management education and on the resistance it has sometimes evoked, both from academics and managers. On the basis of these observations I suggest that the significance of experiential learning is not only as an alternative way of learning but in the social and political values that it brings to both educational and organizational contexts. In view of recent post-heroic developments in conceptions of leadership, I speculate that there could be currently a better match between experiential learning approaches and organizational practice than had previously been the case.
KW - conceptions of leadership
KW - control
KW - critical management education
KW - experiential
KW - negotiated
KW - participative
U2 - 10.1177/1350507609335848
DO - 10.1177/1350507609335848
M3 - Journal article
VL - 40
SP - 387
EP - 392
JO - Management Learning
JF - Management Learning
SN - 1350-5076
IS - 4
ER -