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Fernanda Duarte
"Package" in Management Education
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Rekindling the Sociological
Imagination as a
Pedagogical “Package” in
Management Education
Fernanda Duarte
University of Western Sydney
Based on the reflections and insights of a sociologist teaching in a school of management, this article invites management educators to rekindle the soci- ological imagination
, which, albeit more than five decades old, is a concept that has not lost its relevance to make sense of organizational phenomena. It is my contention that C. Wright Mills’s sociological imagination is a valuable pedagogical “package” in management education as it encourages contextu- alization of organizational phenomena and fosters reflection , critical thinking
,
and reflexivity skills. These skills are a suitable complement to the more nor- mative pedagogical approaches that emphasize the technical and instrumen-
tal

Citations: at OBTS on August 30, 2009 http://jme.sagepub.com at OBTS on August 30, 2009 http://jme.sagepub.com “The sociological imagination,” wrote C. Wright Mills (1973), “enables us to grasp The article is structured as follows: In the first part, I revisit Mills’s (1973) notion of sociological imagination, drawing attention to its value as a contex- those experiences. As Mills (1973) puts it, The sociological imagination enables its possessor to understand the larger