I remember walking down the classroom corridor at Quinnipiac College one afternoon in the mid-1970s. 10 years earlier I had dropped out of college after my freshman year due to lack of money. Now, after a divorce and much hardship, I was so grateful to be back in school. This article is written as a chapter for the forthcoming book Rethinking Management Education , a volume in the Research in Management Education and Development series edited by Charles Wankel and Robert DeFillippi . The majority of management education takes place in a classroom setting, whether it is in a university or a corporate classroom.
Students sit in rows facing forward while the expert pontificates in front of the room.
More enlightened professors and trainers find ways to involve the students in experiential exercises, team projects, online simulations, discussions and other innovative approaches. But all of these pedagogical tools are based on the premise that we are educating the mind of the student only.