Table of Contents
Contents: Introduction; The state of the art, Mike Pedler; Part 1 Origins: Introduction to part 1; Action learning: its origins and nature, Reg Revans; The enterprise as a learning system, Reg Revans; The power of action learning, Bob Garratt; Minding our Ps and Qs, John Morris; Continuity in action learning, Jean Lawrence; David Casey on the role of the set adviser, David Casey; Digging deeper: foundations of Revans' gold standard of action learning, Verna J. Willis; Ad fontes - Reg Revans: some early sources of his personal growth and values, Yury Boshyk; Getting started: an action manual, David Pearce. Part 2 Varieties: Introduction to part 2; Self-managed action learning, Tom Bourner; Action reflection learning, Lennart Rohlin; Business-driven action learning today, Yury Boshyk; Virtual action learning, Mollie Goodman and Jean-Anne Stewart; Critical action learning, Kiran Trehan; The practice and politics of living enquiry, Judi Marshall; The varieties of action learning in practice: a rose by any other name, Judy O'Neil and Victoria J. Marsick. Part 3 Applications: Introduction to part 3; Leadership, Richard Thorpe; Developing facilitative leaders: action learning facilitator training as leadership development, Katie Venner; Action learning in SME development, Lisa Anderson, Jeff Gold and Allan Gibb; Addressing systemic issues in public services, Clare Rigg; Action learning for organization development in South Korea, Yonjoo Cho and Hyeon-Cheol Bong; Facilitation and the affective domain, Ian McGill and Anne Brockbank; Learning to be an action learning facilitator: three approaches, Christine Abbott and Tom Boydell; Action learning and organization development, John Edmonstone; Network learning in an Austrian hospital - revisited, Otmar Donnenberg; Action learning and social capital, Mike Pedler and Margaret Attwood; Action learning round the world, Michael J. Marquardt. Part 4 Questions: Introduction to part 4; Action learning: a pragmatic and moral philos