Bright Lights and the Pastoral Idyll
批判了管理教育中社区概念的理想化倾向,指出其可能掩盖强制和同化差异的负面作用,并提出以差异为基础的管理教学法替代方案。
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.