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Accepting Conflict and Experiencing Creativity: Teaching “Concertation” Using La Francilienne CD‐ROM
Author(s) -
De Carlo Laurence
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
negotiation journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.238
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1571-9979
pISSN - 0748-4526
DOI - 10.1111/j.1571-9979.2005.00048.x
Subject(s) - creativity , negotiation , mediation , experiential learning , sociology , democracy , process (computing) , pedagogy , psychology , computer science , law , social psychology , political science , social science , politics , operating system
This article discusses the use of the La Francilienne CD‐ROM, which I developed with my colleague Alain Lempereur, law professor at ESSEC Business School, near Paris. As a professor in the ESSEC Department of Environment, I use the CD‐ROM as the basic tool for my course “Concertation, Decision, and Local Democracy.” The CD‐ROM's simulation of a public negotiation process for a highway project allows me not only to teach basic concepts and methods of negotiation and mediation but also to enhance two important concepts in public decision processes in planning and environment: conflicts and creativity. The students are given the opportunity first to experience, and then to discuss, conflict and creativity in a quasi‐real setting. These experiences and discussions encourage an internal change process for the students and help them to integrate the negotiation and mediation concepts and methods taught. This internal change will be conceptualized in this article according to two educational theories: transitional thinking theory and experiential learning theory.