Promoting dialogue through authentic conversations in change management education

Abstract

This paper highlights a learning design intended to promote dialogue and social construction of meaning through the presentation of a series of workplace video scenarios related to change management. By delivering to students an authentic presentation of the conversations that occur during change processes, and facilitating dialogue through open ended scenes and activities, an immersive situated learning platform is created. Social construction is utilised both as an educational process and as a key theory for the management of organisational change. The scenarios facilitate both goals through providing a focal point for the former and demonstration of the latter.