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Some personal and political reflections on critical management education

Willmott, H. ORCID: 0000-0003-1321-7041 (2025). Some personal and political reflections on critical management education. In: Rigg, C. & Trehan, K. (Eds.), Research Handbook of Critical Management Education. (pp. 329-342). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781035308668.00042

Abstract

This chapter offers some reflections on one of the sources of critical management education (CME) in the UK that hinge around the connection of the personal and the political. It sketches what I take to be the distinctiveness of CME and considers what this means in practice. The chapter then explores and assesses the introduction of a first-year undergraduate module on ‘critical thinking’ and ‘dialogical pedagogy’ recently introduced at Bayes (formerly Cass) Business School before concluding with some broader reflections on CME today. Throughout the chapter, reference is made to the relevance of other contributions to this volume.

Publication Type: Book Section
Additional Information: This is a draft chapter. The final version is available in Research Handbook of Critical Management Education edited by Clare Rigg and Kiran Trehan, published in 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035308668.00042
Publisher Keywords: History of CME; The personal; The political; Critical thinking; Dialogical pedagogy; Grand challenges
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
Departments: Bayes Business School
Bayes Business School > Faculty of Management
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