Agile Learning and Management in a Digital Age: Dialogic Leadership

This book offers a detailed theoretical analysis of the fields of learning and management in the digital age. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it opens a dialogue between agile management theory and agile learning theory.

The book argues that there is a tension between participative and action-orientated approaches on the one hand and neoliberal enclosure of the actor on the other hand. It takes this as an opportunity for interdisciplinary dialogue between learning theories and management concepts. With contributions from a range of international experts, chapters discuss the need for suitable theoretical, epistemological, and ethical foundations as well as practice-orientated methods for learning and management to implement appropriate strategies and meet educational challenges.

This highly topical book will be of great interest to academics, postgraduate students, and researchers in the fields of digital learning, educational theory, management theory, and communication studies.

David Kergel is Professor of Social Work, IU International University of Applied Sciences and Director of the Center for Diversity and Education in the Digital Age, Germany.

Birte Heidkamp-Kergel is the Leading Coordinator of the E-Learning Centre, Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Hanne Nørreklit is Professor of Management Accounting and Control, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Michael Paulsen is Associate Professor at the Syddansk University, Denmark.