Learning as a Way of Being: Strategies for Survival in a World of Permanent White Water

ISBN-13: 9780787902469 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 240 str.

Vaill

Opis

Offers a thoughtful critique of the roots of management education and argues that institutions of higher learning must teach managers how to integrate the discipline of learning into their very being. Such learning must be marked by strong self-direction, willingness to take risks, and integration of the learning that life teaches outside the classroom.

Spis treści

Introduction: An Ordinary Day on the River: Living in a World of Permanent White Water.

WAYS OF LEARNING: DOING VERSUS BEING.

Learning as a Means to Doing: Institutional Learning and the Institutionalized Learner.

Learning as a Way of Being: All Experience Is Learning.

WAYS OF BEING: STRATEGIES FOR LEARNING.

Systems Learning.

Leaderly Learning.

Cultural Unlearning.

Spiritual Learning.

Epilogue: Discovery, Cultivation, Recognition, and the Real Learnings of Life.

O autorze

PETER B. VAILL is professor of human systems and director of the Ph.D. program at the School of Business and Public Management, George Washington University. In 1985, Vaill was described in Training and Development Journal as one of the top ten organization development specialists in the United States.

Blurb

In Learning as a Way of Being, Vaill offers a thoughtful critique of the roots of management education and argues that, if managers are to navigate the waters skillfully, insitutions of "higher learning" must, above all, teach managers how to integrate the discipline of learning into their very being. Such learning must be marked by strong self–direction, willingness to taker isks, and integration of the learning that life teaches outside the classroom.