learning by doing to enable learning for life
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Learning by Doing to Enable Learning for Life. Colin Ashurst NUBS. Management…. “the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives” Birkinshaw , 2010; p10 (Reinventing Management). The craft of management. Craft. Science. Art. Management…. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Learning by Doing to Enable Learning for Life
Colin AshurstNUBS
Management…
“the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives”
Birkinshaw, 2010; p10 (Reinventing Management)
The craft of management
Craft
ArtScience
Management…
“is a practice, learned primarily through experience, and rooted in context”
Mintzberg, 2011; p6 (Management)
The Craftsman Richard Sennett
Penguin Books (2009)
All craftsmanship is founded on skill developed to a high degree… about 10,000 hours of experience are required to produce a master carpenter or musician (p20)
Changing perspectives
‘a computer on every desk and in every home’
BUILDING ENGAGEMENTExamples
Induction
MA Management
Induction
239 students
2 half days
Focus on employability
Challenges
Management into Action
The theory and practice of management
Becoming a manager
Management into Action
‘Workshop 1’: two Fridays at the start of term
• Recreating a classic piece of management research
Management into Action
• Day 1: focus on skills for management including networking
• Plan the research project
• Day 2: groups present back on research project• Plan assignment 1
Consulting module
3 lectures & seminars >>>> 3 tutorials – action learning sets
Management into Action: Innovation Challenge
3 day workshop (June)
Real world group projects
Assessed presentations on day 3 to sponsors
Thank you
Questions?
Questions
• How can we embed skills development across a programme?
• How can we ensure consistency in approach and progression?
• The carpenter, lab technician and conductor are all craftsmen because they are dedicated to good work for its own sake. … their labour is not simply a means to another end (20)
• Impact of separating ‘head and hand, technique and science, art and craft’ (20)
Enterprise
“Enterprise is making things happen, having ideas and doing something about them, taking advantage of the opportunity, and bringing about change”.
Paul Kearney, Scottish Enterprise, 1994
Learning by Doing to Enable Learning for Life
• The session provides examples of activities to engage with business school undergraduate and postgraduate (pre-experience / taught) students. In all cases the intention was to build student engagement in learning, and as a result to help them develop their skills and to enable learning for life. All the ideas have a foundation in the idea that management is a craft and that effective management is in essence a set of skills (teamwork, communication etc) as set out in the graduate skills framework. This perspective draws on many sources including work by Mintzberg (Managers NOT MBAs, 2004) The examples are drawn from induction and three different modules. They are presented simply as examples of learning by doing to enable learning for life.