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Action Learning and its Applications

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Editors:
  1. Robert L. Dilworth

    1. Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

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  2. Yury Boshyk

    1. The annual Global Forum on Executive Development and Business Driven Action Learning, UK

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
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  2. Sector Overviews

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Action Learning in Health care

      • Cheryl Brook
      Pages 3-14

    3. Action Learning in Education

      • Robert L. Dilworth
      Pages 15-42

    4. Transformative Action Learning in the U.S. Government

      • Robert Kramer, James L. Kelly
      Pages 43-54

    5. Action Learning in the Military

      • Robert L. Dilworth
      Pages 55-67

    6. Action Learning in the Business World: Past, Present, and Future

      • Yury Boshyk
      Pages 68-98

    7. Action Learning, Community, and Civil Society

      • Verna J. Willis
      Pages 99-115

  3. Themes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. The Practical Primacy of Questions in Action Learning

      • Marilee G. Adams
      Pages 119-130

    3. Process in Action Learning Teams: Similarities and Variations

      • Michael Huge, John W. Bing
      Pages 131-143

    4. Action Learning and Organization Development

      • W. Warner Burke, Debra A. Noumair
      Pages 144-153

    5. Action Learning and the Learning Organization: Building Learning Capacity in Individuals, Groups and Organizations

      • Judy O’Neil, Karen E. Watkins, Victoria J. Marsick
      Pages 154-165

    6. Action Learning and Action Research

      • Verna J. Willis
      Pages 166-178

    7. Future Search as Action Learning

      • Marvin R. Weisbord, Sandra Janoff
      Pages 179-191

  4. Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
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    2. Action Learning through the Lens of Action Learners

      • Robert L. Dilworth, Verna J. Willis, Karen M. Videtic, Mariana Garban, Lillie Graham Sapp, Marvin R. Weisbord et al.
      Pages 195-210

    3. From the Frying Pan to the Fire — And Back Again: An Action Learning Story from General Electric

      • Stephen R. Mercer
      Pages 211-225

    4. My Experience with Business Driven Action Learning

      • Alasdair Philip
      Pages 226-230

    5. Making Space for Reflection in Action Learning

      • Geert R. Egger
      Pages 231-241
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

    Robert L. Dilworth

  • The annual Global Forum on Executive Development and Business Driven Action Learning, UK

    Yury Boshyk

About the editors

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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