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Abstract
For 30 years, management educators have supported competency-based management education (CBME). When applying CBME, educators stimulate students’ lateral development, known as the acquisition of subject-specific knowledge and competencies that deepen their current perceptions and task performance. We contend CBME is necessary but not sufficient to develop future leaders in an increasingly complex world. Concurrently, educators must design curricula to stimulate students’ vertical development, described as “how we learn to see the world through new eyes, how we change our interpretations of experience and how we transform our views of reality.” This study examines the impact of an 8-month internship course on students’ lateral and vertical development. The findings support our contention that experiential learning (EL) curricula developed with both lateral and vertical development components are powerful aids in preparing students to address complex work-related challenges.
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Author Biographies
Kirsty K. Spence, PhD, is an Associate Professor of sport management at Brock University, where she has worked since graduating from doctoral studies at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) in 2005. Kirsty’s research interests include experiential learning, integrative curriculum design, executive and managerial coaching and their respective impacts on leadership development. Kirsty’s research appears in respected journals such as the Sport Management Review, European Sport Management Quarterly, Journal of Management Education, and the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice.
Mark A. McDonald, PhD, is an Associate Professor of sport management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he received a PhD in 1996. Dr. McDonald has given more than 40 academic presentations and published 27 journal articles in such respected journals as the Journal of Sport Management, Sport Marketing Quarterly, International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship and European Sport Management Quarterly. His research interests include experiential learning pedagogy, leadership, and leadership development.
