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Informing Educational Approaches to PRME Using Foucault

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Abstract

This essay argues that careful thought should be given to understanding the impact that external forces and the university milieu have on the potential of learning approaches that inform Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME). Drawing on Foucault’s “early” work on power-knowledge (1980), the essay discusses how the potential of PRME to graduate students who will be everyday responsible managers is constrained by the “logic of performativity” that is a dominant ethos in university education. However, following Foucault’s “later” work, we subsequently suggest that education approaches to PRME can nurture an “art of living” (1988), whereby responsible management becomes an everyday response in students. This requires pursuing self-care practices that engage the self in critically enquiring how forms of domination exist and can thus be changed.

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    Pouvoir-savoir is another term used by Foucault to describe “discourse”. See Foucault M (1991).

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    Ball (1990, p. 4), for instance, describes processes of testing, examining, profiling, streaming, and entry criteria as examples of these. See Ball (1990).

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Caspersz, D., Leung, E. (2019). Informing Educational Approaches to PRME Using Foucault. In: Neesham, C., Segal, S. (eds) Handbook of Philosophy of Management. Handbooks in Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48352-8_24-1

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