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Managing To Learn: The Social Poetics of a Polyphonic 'Classroom'

Caroline Ramsey

Open University, UK, c.m.ramsey{at}open.ac.uk

This paper draws on Bakhtin's use of polyphony and explores its potential for organizing processes within management education. In developing the concept of a polyphonic 'classroom', the interplay between tutor, manager-student and theory is related to Bakhtin's identification of the relationship between hero, other characters and idea within Dostoevsky's novels. In particular, a carnivalesque polyphonic relationship is argued to change tutor—student relations, extend the physical classroom into a wider polyphonic 'classroom' that includes the manager-student's work context and re-imagines learning as a changing, social poetic performance beyond common understanding of learning as cognitive processes of understanding or sense making.

Key Words: Bakhtin • management education • polyphony • social poetics • work-based learning

Organization Studies, Vol. 29, No. 4, 543-558 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0170840608088700
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