Teaching the Person, Not the Topic: An Implicit Theory Approach to Management Education
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Management education may be failing students by ignoring the hidden belief systems they already hold — and implicit theory research explains exactly why that gap is so dangerous.
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Theory Briefing
- Traditional management courses deliver formal theories while ignoring the personal beliefs students already bring to the classroom.
- Implicit theories — the unconscious mental models people use to make sense of the world — shape how learners absorb or resist new ideas.
- An implicit theory approach to teaching reframes education around the student's existing worldview, making formal knowledge actually stick.