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What is it to be Critical? Teaching a Critical Approach to Management Undergraduates

Mingers, John (2000) What is it to be Critical? Teaching a Critical Approach to Management Undergraduates. Management Learning, 31 (2). pp. 219-237. ISSN 1350-5076. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:3896)

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Abstract

Developing our students' abilities to be critical is important but what does it mean to be critical? It is just the cognitive skills of critical thinking or should it involve more radical re-examination of management knowledge and practice from a Foucauldian or Habermasian perspective? This article addresses the issue of what it is to be critical by reflecting on the development of an innovative core course for final year management students concerned with critical management issues. The first section outlines the specific educational context and the structure of the course as a whole. Then the article explains the underlying theoretical framework that was developed which identified four aspects of being critical-scepticism towards rhetoric, tradition, authority, and objectivity. The teaching material associated wit this part of the course is discussed next. This looks at two real situations, one the debacle of the Taurus stock exchange system, and the other an ongoing legal case concerning racial discrimination that is being documented on the web. The article concludes with a more theoretical discussion of the relation between this particular course and critical management more generally.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions: Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Department of Analytics, Operations and Systems
Depositing User: John Mingers
Date Deposited: 26 May 2009 21:45 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:42 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/3896 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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