Due to the growing learning requests demanded of managers in the actual context and the importance of their role for organizations and society, the need for broadening management education perspectives is suggested. Business education have been criticized either by scholars that point out the reflection importance as by those that emphasize the critical reflection role for management learning. The article presents Brazilian studies developed in the management learning field which corroborate the reflection and the critical reflection importance in learning processes, although the last one is still least evident in business or in management education. It is proposed that transformative learning theory might contribute to management learning, stimulating critical reflection that favors autonomous thinking and liberates conditioned assumptions about the world, about others and themselves, crucial for work, citizenship and for moral decision making.
learning; managers; management education; critical reflection; transformative learning
