The Dissonance of “Doing Good”: Fostering Critical Pedagogy to Challenge the Selective Tradition of Nonprofit Management Education

• DOI: 10.1080/10999922.2022.2034341
• Publication Date: 2022-03-11T15:48:45Z
• Authors: Maureen Emerson Feit; Billie Sandberg
• Keywords: Praxis; Critical management studies; Emancipation; Critical Theory; Nonprofit Sector; Critical Consciousness

Nonprofit management classrooms are filled with students who yearn to "do good" in the world and yet, practice, they confront a dissonance between their vision of doing good realities nonprofit work. This is part created by contemporary education (NME) through development perpetuation selective historical tradition sector which mythologizes its These traditions myths based squarely white American Eurocentric values downplay histories people color thus perpetuate whiteness as central norms practice. We present critical reading these an effort help educators reclaim reimagine offer tenets pedagogy that emphasizes consciousness praxis emancipation so can re-envision theory practice future.