{"product_id":"9780803977839","title":"Rethinking Management Education","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt a time of ever-increasing debate about orthodox approaches to management education, and their application in the post-industrial era, this innovative book brings together the work of authors actively engaged in developing new forms of education.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKey starting points for the volume are: first, that it is important to expose to reflective analysis and critique such a significant and influential contemporary activity as management; and second, that management education is a primary site for such interrogation since it plays a crucial role in helping to produce and reproduce managerial practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe introduction contrasts dominant utilitarian and functionalist conceptions of management education with various alternatives. It argues the need for a critical and pluralistic form of management education whereby participants are introduced to the full diversity of appropriate perspectives and debates. The remainder of the book echoes this commitment by exploring a range of approaches, including those based in psychoanalysis, critical theory and poststructuralism. Throughout the book, there is a focus is upon the implications of problematizing management knowledge so as to facilitate alternative and critical modalities of teaching and learning. In this context management is seen not simply as a bundle of skills and techniques but, rather, as a complex social, political and moral practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRe-Thinking Management Education\u003c\/b\u003e is essential reading for all academics, students and professionals concerned with the most significant developments in education and learning in the field.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAGE Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016158888176,"sku":"9780803977839","price":57.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780803977839_p0.jpg?v=1763728332","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780803977839","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}