Dear Ted,
Your course sounds excellent and timely. I would be very interested to see the list of programs/resources you develop, as I have been working with colleagues at Copenhagen Business School, University of Washington and Harvard Business School to bring narrative-based and arts-based (mainly theatre-based) pedagogical approaches into the classroom.
You might be interested in taking a look at a new approach for teaching information technology leadership developed by Rob Austin, Richard Nolan and myself. An article recently published in AMLE describes our pedagogical approach, which employs a narrative structure, draws on the strengths of inductive and deductive teaching strategies (combining lecture and case-based discussion, as well as other interactive methods), and supports development of cumulative and integrated management frameworks. The narrative structure is inspired by Joseph Campbell's "monomyth" or "hero's journey" (which I had used as a theatre director), and brings engaging and coherent plot and character development to what would otherwise be a series of 18 business cases on management topics.
What we've found, teaching the course to undergraduates, graduates and executives, is that students at all levels of experience are able to engage with different kinds of knowledge, engage in dramatic scenarios based on real-world experiences, empathize with characters and the complexity of professional relationships, and exercise decision-making (and its consequences) in a "holistic" way within the simulated business context described in the narrative.
The article can be accessed here by AOM members: http://www.aom.pace.edu/amle/v8n3.html, or through other channels. Here's the info:
"The Technology Manager's Journey: An Extended Narrative Approach to Educating Technical Leaders." (2009). Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, Shannon O'Donnell. Academy of Management Learning & Education, Vol. 8, No. 3, 337-355.
Best wishes,
Shannon
Shannon O'Donnell, PhD Fellow
Department of Management, Politics & Philosophy
(and the Centre for Art and Leadership)
Copenhagen Business School
Porcelænshaven 18A
2000 Frederiksberg, Danmark
(45) 3815 2186
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Dear Fellow AACORNers,
This semester I’ll be teaching a Clark University Graduate Management directed-research course in “Innovations in Management and Management Education.” The focus will be on the growing trend in business schools to teach leadership and adaptive skills alongside functional business skills. Some programs are doing so with an increased focus on creativity, decision making, intuition, empathy, and/or ethical reasoning. I’m especially interested in attempts to change how students think or learn, for example by teaching them such approaches as integrative, design, systems, holistic, or associative thinking; or transformative, transdisciplinary, or interdisciplinary learning. (Yes, there’s considerable overlap in those terms.) And, as part of this study, I’m of course interested in where, how, and why the arts and humanities are being integrated into business education.
Can you recommend specific programs we should research? And the names of individuals to contact within these programs? You’re certainly welcome to recommend yourselves when appropriate.
Sincerely,
Ted
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