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Participant Perspectives on Action Learning in Higher Education: A Framework for Learning
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Meadbh Ruane; Sandra Corlett – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2024
This paper presents a framework which captures the complexity and multi-dimensional process of learning in action learning (AL) on an accredited executive Master's programme. The framework extends current knowledge by presenting a holistic participant perspective of learning. Underpinned by a social constructionist epistemology, the study…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Masters Programs
Facilitating Action Learning & Virtual Action Learning for Leadership Development: Experiences and Insights from a UK Masters Programme
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Jean-Anne Stewart – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2024
Action learning is one of the most effective leadership development interventions [Day, Fleenor, Atwater, Sturm, and McKee. 2014. "Advances in Leader and Leadership Development: A Review of 25 Years of Research and Theory." The Leadership Quarterly 25 (1): 63-82; Pauleen. 2003. "Leadership in a Global Virtual Team: An Action…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Electronic Learning, Leadership Training, Technology Integration
The Wicked Problem of Employee Wellbeing: Creating Safe Space within a Change Laboratory
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Lawless, Aileen; Willocks, Katie Elizabeth – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2021
This article sheds light on employee wellbeing. We reveal how an 'adapted' action learning intervention (a change laboratory) introduced prior to the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, enabled learning and action to emerge within an educational programme. We utilise the theoretical lens of activity theory to illustrate the challenges and tensions of…
Descriptors: Employees, Well Being, Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning
Looking at the Bigger Picture: Designing and Facilitating Action Learning across Boundaries
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Marguet, Natalie; Wilson, Hannah – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2021
Action learning is seen under many guises, being adapted into different contexts (Marsick and O'Neil [1999. "The Many Faces of Action Learning." "Management Learning" 30 (2): 159-176.]). This is especially true in higher education, due to the divergent requirements and challenges of multiple action learning programmes and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Instructional Design, Business Schools, Foreign Countries