Disalienation in the management classroom: lessons from Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game

IF 1.2 4区管理学 Q4 MANAGEMENT

Culture and Organization Pub Date : 2022-02-03 DOI:10.1080/14759551.2022.2033976

M. Zawadzki, T. Lennerfors

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In contemporary academia, education is often perceived as a supplement to an academic career or a tool to satisfy management through course evaluations and this can alienate academics from teaching. To create inspiration and deepen the understanding of teachers’ alienation as well as disalienation in the management classroom, we draw on Hermann Hesse’s last novel ‘The Glass Bead Game’. The story of Joseph Knecht who escapes an elitist pedagogical province to engage in personal teaching serves as an inspiration through which we discuss the act of resisting alienation in contemporary management education. Alienation, as we learn from Hesse, is not an unchangeable condition and it can be resisted through reinventing personal teaching, re-focusing attention from the demands of academic excellence to the imperfection of human beings, and acknowledging education as a history maker and teaching as a preparation for life and death.

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管理课堂上的失望：赫尔曼·黑塞的《玻璃珠游戏》

摘要在当代学术界，教育往往被视为学术生涯的补充，或是通过课程评估满足管理需求的工具，这可能会疏远学术界对教学的兴趣。为了启发和加深对管理课堂中教师异化和异化的理解，我们借鉴了赫尔曼·黑塞的最后一部小说《玻璃珠游戏》。Joseph Knecht逃离一个精英教育省份从事个人教学的故事给了我们灵感，我们通过这个故事来讨论当代管理教育中的抵制异化行为。正如我们从黑塞中学到的那样，异化并不是一种不可改变的条件，它可以通过重塑个人教学、将注意力从学术卓越的要求重新集中到人类的不完美，并承认教育是历史的创造者，教学是生与死的准备来抵制。

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Culture and Organization MANAGEMENT-

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3.20

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