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Rimanoczy, Isabel; Brown, Carole – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2008
This paper introduces Action Reflection Learning (ARL) as a learning methodology that can contribute to, and enrich, the practice of action learning programs. It describes the Swedish constructivist origins of the model, its evolution and the coded responses that resulted from researching the practice. The paper presents the resulting sixteen ARL…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Models
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Lane, Jane-Erik – European Journal of Education, 1979
Power in the university is seen as the academic division of labor that creates a number of self-sufficient units responsible for the production of academic work. Two kinds of reforms in higher education, efficiency and participation by disenfranchised groups, have affected the power structure of higher education institutions. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Decision Making, Higher Education, Models
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Backstrom, Tomas – Learning Organization, 2004
A theoretical model of collective learning has been developed based on complex systems theory. The need for collective learning is illustrated by an empirical study of an "unsuccessful" organizational-renewal project in a Swedish Telecom firm. The conclusion, using chaordic systems thinking as a diagnostic framework, is that its interior…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Development, Telecommunications, Models
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Berg, Gunnar – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1984
Discusses the connection between type of control structure for a school system and type of strategy for change that may be chosen. Shows that the mandator-controlled Swedish school system best corresponds to the "Developing the Organization" model of educational change. Describes a Swedish training program based on the model. (SB)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Administration, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education