Action Learning and its Applications

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ISBN: 0230576419
ISBN 13: 9780230576414
Herausgeber: R Dilworth/Y Boshyk
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xxx, 307 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.02.2010
Auflage: 1/2010
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

In examining a variety of sectors in which action learning is being used (e.g., healthcare, education, business, communities, government and the military), the book interweaves it with the philosophy and precepts Reg Revans of England, action learning’s principal architect and pioneerA number of themes and perspectives are addressed, some for the first time (e.g., Future search in Action Learning, and Team Effectiveness in Action Learning)It elaborates on areas that have needed greater clarification, including Action Learning and Action Research and the Relationship Between Organization Development (OD) and Action LearningIt looks to the future of action learning and addresses ways to increase its effectiveness in applicationIt provides the reader with a window through which to gauge learner reactions to action learning. How were they impacted by the experience? Much of what is written about action learning talks about technique and facilitative practices, and never really gets around to addressing learner learner needs and perceptions

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Beschreibung

This second volume of two discusses the employment of action learning in different contexts, including healthcare, education, government, military and the business world. Use of action learning in delivery of Future Search Conferences is addressed, as well as action learning in community and civil society and the future of action learning.

Autorenporträt

ROBERT L. DIILWORTH was a retired U.S. Army Brigadier General who served as the 54th Adjutant General of the Army. He was also Professor Emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University where he had responsibility for the graduate program in Human Resource Development. Besides numerous articles, he co-authored several books, including Action Learning: Images and Pathways with Verna J. Willis (2003), and Fogs of War and Peace: A Midstream Analysis of World War III, with Shlomo Maital (2008). Dilworth was a close associate and friend of Reg Revans. In June, 2009 Dilworth was posthumously awarded a Professional Achievement award for his outstanding contributions to action learning. YURY BOSHYK is Chairman of the annual Global Forum on Executive Development and Business Driven Action Learning, a 15-year-old community of practice. He is also Chairman of The Global Executive Learning Network, a worldwide association of professionals involved in assisting multinationals and others in the design and implementation of executive education. He is editor of Business Driven Action Learning: Global Best Practices (2000), and Action Learning Worldwide: Experiences of Leadership and Organizational Development (2002), and author of articles on geopolitics, the learning organization and global trends. Formerly, he was a professor at IMD in Switzerland, and a graduate of the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

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