Learning atmospheres: Re-imagining management education through the dérive
Journal
Management Learning
ISSN
1350-5076
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2020-03-19
Author(s)
Abstract
This article responds to the recent calls for rethinking management education, particularly to those that emphasize space, affect and atmosphere, and makes the case for the practice of dérive as a way of infusing management education with experiential, experimental and reflexive learning processes. The authors draw on ideas and practices of the art movement Situationist International who proposed the dérive, informed by the concept of psychogeography as a way of exploring and reimagining the atmospheres of everyday life. The paper is illustrated by the authors’ teaching experiences in this area (or space as one might say). The authors argue that the dérive in management education may foster future managers’ imaginative skills and inspire an imaginative self-reflection of the business school and its spatial organization. The paper concludes that in re-enacting their experience of educational space, participants may learn about, reflect on, and develop their affective capacities for becoming part of organizational processes, both as students of the business school and as future managers.
Language
English
Keywords
Business school
dérive
educational space
imagination
learning atmosphere
psychogeography
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Sage Publishers
Volume
online first
Start page
1
End page
20
Pages
20
Official URL
Division(s)
Contact Email Address
christoph.michels@uni.li
Eprints ID
259801