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An Account of Practice: Employing Drawings and Stories to Enable Reflective Learning
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Robertson, Jane; le Sueur, Heidi; Terblanche, Nicky – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2019
Facilitating reflection for personal growth in a business context requires careful thought and planning. As a learning process, Business-Driven Action Learning (BDAL) has two points of focus. It aims to firstly identify and make recommendations regarding a business challenge, whist secondly facilitating potentially significant individual personal…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Transformative Learning, Reflection, Management Development
Student Accounts of Action Learning on a DBA Programme: Learning Inaction
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Mendonça, Roger; Parker, Anthony; Udo, Uwem; Groves, Catherine – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2015
This account of practice sets out the action learning experience of three doctoral students on the same Doctoral Programme in Business Administration at a UK university. It also include the sense-making of a fourth member of the set. It explores the tension between their area of work and their engagement in the action learning process and, in so…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning, Learning Experience, Graduate Students
Action Learning in Postgraduate Executive Management Education: An Account of Practice
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Ruane, Meadbh – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2016
The merits of action learning as a change tool and enabler of deep learning are well recognised. However, there is a gap in the literature of participants' stories regarding their experiences on accredited postgraduate executive programmes underpinned by an action learning philosophy. The following account of practice addresses this gap and…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Management Development, Graduate Study, Graduate Students
Beyond You and Me: Stories for Collective Action and Learning? Perspectives from an Action Research Project
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Gearty, Margaret – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2015
This paper explores the combination of storytelling and reflective action research as a means to effect change and learning within and across communities and organizations. Taking the complex challenge of "pro-environmental behaviour change" as an example, the paper reflects on the experiences of a pilot project run for the UK government…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Action Research, Foreign Countries, Rural Areas
The Narrative Turn in Action Learning Practices: From Restitution to Quest
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Chivers, Mandy; Yates, Alan – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2010
Discourse genres of narrative and dialogue are integral to action learning approaches. Whilst an examination of dialogue as the mode of critical thinking, sense making and strategising has been thorough, we suggest that there has been scant attention paid to the role of narrative in action learning practices. In this paper the authors present a…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Reflection, Well Being, Organizational Change
The Power, and Dilemma, of Honesty: Action Learning for Social Entrepreneurs
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Weinstein, Krystyna – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2005
This is an account of one particular set meeting during a year long programme for social entrepreneurs. It triggered a number of questions and insights for me about the amazing value of honesty, and its power. It released a great deal of energy, ownership and "control". I realized how important it was to highlight, discuss and reflect on…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Network Analysis