The Finnish Team Academy model: implications for management education

Tosey, Paul, Dhaliwal, S and Hassinen, J (2013) The Finnish Team Academy model: implications for management education Management Learning, 46 (2). pp. 175-194.

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Abstract

This article explores an innovative model of management education, the Team Academy based in Finland, in which teams of learners create and operate real enterprises, supported by coaches. The contributions of the article are to provide insights into how the Team Academy works, and to review its implications for theories of management learning and educational design. Based on a case study of the Team Academy model we argue that management education programmes need to be construed as artificially-created learning environments, and specifically as `micro-cultures’ - local contexts in which pedagogical and cultural practices coalesce. The concept of a micro-culture can bring together four main attributes of learning environments (social embeddedness, real-worldness, identity formation and normative). Construing learning environments in this way has likely important implications for the theory and practice of management learning and education, since a micro-culture is a complex, emergent phenomenon that is not necessarily controllable or transferable.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions :	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Surrey Business School
Authors :	Name Email ORCID Tosey, Paul P.Tosey@surrey.ac.uk Dhaliwal, S Hassinen, J
Date :	10 October 2013
DOI :	10.1177/1350507613498334
Copyright Disclaimer :	This is the accepted version of the following article: Tosey, P., Dhaliwal, S. and Hassinen, J. (2015) `The Finnish Team Academy model: implications for management education’, Management Learning 46(2): 175-194. which has been published in final form at doi: 10.1177/1350507613498334.
Uncontrolled Keywords :	Micro-culture; learning environment; collective learning; dialogue; entrepreneurial learning; experiential learning
Additional Information :	Published in Management Learning, online, 2013. Copyright 2013 Sage Publications.
Depositing User :	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited :	08 Nov 2013 11:40
Last Modified :	16 Jan 2019 16:48
URI:	http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/804227

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