Action Learning and Its Applications

ISBN-13: 9781349366279 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 307 str.

R. Dilworth;Y. Boshyk

Spis treści

Action Learning in Healthcare Action Learning in Education Action Learning in Government Action Learning in the Military Action Learning in the Business World Action Learning in Community and Civil Society Future Search in Action Learning Action Learning and Action Research Action Learning and Team Effectiveness Centrality of Questions to Action Learning Making Space for Reflection in Action Learning Action Learning: Networks and Communities of Practice Action Learning through the Lens of Action Learners Looking to the Future Action Learning: a Resource Guide

O autorze

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.