Action Learning: History and Evolution

✍ Scribed by Yury Boshyk, Robert L. Dilworth (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 309
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The first of a two volume set that fully explore the roots of action learning and the legacy of its principal pioneer, Reg Revans. Rather than prescribe one approach to action learning, it shows alternative approaches to fit different contexts, including classic action learning, action reflection learning and business driven action learning.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Explaining Traditional Action Learning: Concepts and Beliefs....Pages 3-28
Remembering Reg Revans: Action Learning’s Principal Pioneer....Pages 29-47
Reg Revans: Sources of Inspiration, Practice, and Theory....Pages 48-72
Revans: The Man and His Legacy....Pages 73-95
National Level Experiments with Action Learning: Belgium and Beyond....Pages 96-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Milestones in the History and Worldwide Evolution of Action Learning....Pages 117-204
Action Learning in Different National and Organizational Contexts and Cultures....Pages 205-233
Action Learning Today: Resources, Networks, and Communities of Practice....Pages 234-279
Back Matter....Pages 280-299

✦ Subjects

Human Resource Management; Careers in Business and Mangagement; Economic History