Network learning: a methodological propose to shareholders and executives education

Abstract

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8077.2012v14n33p25

This article aims to analyze the dynamics of the learning networks operation of business and the differential of this methodological practice to other conventional models of teaching. The review of the epistemological theories of learning and educational psychology identified constructivism collective (LAROCHELLE et al., 1998) as the approach that most closely resembles conceptions of teaching in network format. To understand the way they are planned and organized networks and their distinctions for other types of courses targeted at executives use the methods of case study and thematic analysis. The study highlight the differences in entrepreneurial learning networks, still little diffusined in Brazil, for the traditional teaching methods taught in the open courses postgraduate to the public and in-company to complement and update the learning people in executive business function.