The Handbook of Action Learning

ISBN-13: 9781032734873 / Twarda / 2024 / 144 str.

School of Social Science & Pub John (Senior Research Fellow

Opis

Applied as a discrete activity focused on a priority need or on new or changed roles; as a linkage between more formal programs and the workplace or blended with other elements in a program, this book distils current and previous practice and theory to provide an up-to-date guide to action learning.

Spis treści

Chapter One: What is action learning? Chapter Two: Underlying principles Chapter Three: Distinctions and differences Chapter Four: Preparing for action learning Chapter Five: The action learning set Chapter Six: Choosing the issue Chapter Seven: The key skills Chapter Eight: The energy investment model Chapter Nine: Dealing with anxiety Chapter Ten: Supporting, recording, ending Chapter Eleven: The facilitator role Chapter Twelve: Action learning organisation-wide Chapter Thirteen: Action learning and culture Chapter Fourteen: Evaluating action learning Chapter Fifteen: Action learning resources 

O autorze

John Edmonstone is a leadership, management and organization development consultant with extensive experience within the public services both within the UK and internationally in the human resource and organization development fields. He has worked regularly with action learning in the UK, Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Indonesia. He is the author of: The Action Learner’s Toolkit (2003), Action Learning in Healthcare: A Practical Handbook (2011) and Action Learning in Health, Social and Community Care: Principles, Practices, Resources (2018) together with many journal articles on action learning in the international journal Action Learning: Research and Practice. John Edmonstone is on the Editorial Board of the journal Action Learning: Research and Practice where he guest-edited a Special Issue on Action Learning in Healthcare (2022). He has attended and presented all of the bi-annual international conferences sponsored by that journal from 2008 to 2023. He is Honorary Research Fellow at Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, having previously held similar appointments at Keele, Sheffield Hallam and Queen Margaret Universities. He has facilitated action learning sets in healthcare, local government and higher education.