Teaching Leadership Critically to MBAs
作者分享在MBA和EMBA项目中教授“领导力与变革”课程的经历,通过批判性教学和体验式学习,鼓励学生挑战传统领导力观念,并反思自身在教学中的角色与情感。
In 2004, after a year's leave, I started teaching a new Masters of Business Administration (MBA) subject called `Leadership and Change' in what I hoped was a more critical way. In this article I explore my experiences of launching two versions of this subject— one in a full-time MBA and one in an Executive MBA programme. I describe what I did and what happened, including the obstacles encountered—in myself and the structures around me—how it felt and how students and the institution responded. By working experientially as well as critically, I aimed to create a space in which students could challenge their ways of thinking about leadership and all of us could experiment with different ways of `doing' leadership in the group. The article is written with an emphasis on `practical' reflexivity. By interweaving personal reflection with insights from critical theory, I make explicit the `me' in this account—as power-holder, participant and observer; as mind, body and heart, dripping with and scoured by emotion at times. Neither pure narrative nor theoretical exploration, my desire is to excavate insight from points of intersection between critical theory and personal experience.