Action Learning: History and Evolution

ISBN-13: 9780230576407 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 299 str.

Yury Boshyk; Robert Dilworth

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Explaining Action Learning: Basic Concepts and Beliefs Remembering Reg Revans: Action Learning's Principal Pioneer Perspective on my Father: a Daughter's Perspective Action Learning: Views of Leading Practioners Experiencing the Evolution of Action Learning: Views of Alan Mumford Action Reflection Learning: Tales of Two Journeys Business Driven Action Learning From Belgium to South Africa: Experiences with Countrywide Action Learning Action Learning and the Learning Organization: Building Learning Capacity in Individual's, Groups and Organizations Cross-cultural Perspectives on Action Learning The Future and 'New Frontiers' of Action Learning

O autorze

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. 

ROBERT L. DILWORTH 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.