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This paper asks to what extent is it possible to teach management in a university setting using critical pedagogy? This is a relevant question for consideration by academics who take a critical perspective on management for at least three reasons. Firstly, many of us who embrace critical management theory would like our teaching to be as congruent with a critical perspective as possible. Secondly, reflection on the potential for critical pedagogy in a university environment and observation of the impediments to use, offer opportunities for improving understanding educational organisations from a critical perspective. Thirdly, a critical perspective on management presents some special pedagogic considerations when the context of the teaching is concerned with providing students with practical management skills. We have taken as our starting point for this paper an outline of the basic tenets of critical pedagogy and the, now classic, ‘refutation ’ by Ellsworth of the possibilities for critical pedagogy in universities, (Ellsworth, 1989). Ellsworth’s critique provides a useful starting point because in reviewing her contentions, it is possible to dispose o