Team Teaching: Making Management Education More Student-Centred?

Abstract

One of the original reasons for introducing team teaching into schools was because it seemed likely to make education more 'student-centred'. This paper considers how far this assumption holds in management education where team teaching is frequently employed. In doing this it is necessary to discuss the nature of team teaching in some detail, including both the variety of structural arrangements that may be adopted and the way that different assumptions about the proper content of management education can influence the choice of such arrangements. The conclusion is that the relationship is by no means straightforward, and that the success of team teaching itself depends very much on the skills and circumstances of the teachers involved.