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Enacting Change through Action Learning: Mobilizing and Managing Power and Emotion
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Conklin, James; Cohen-Schneider, Rochelle; Linkewich, Beth; Legault, Emma – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2012
This paper reports on a study of how action learning facilitates the movement of knowledge between social contexts. The study involved a community organization that provides educational services related to aphasia and members of a complex continuing care (CCC) practice that received training from the agency. People with aphasia (PWA) (a disability…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Aphasia, Learning Processes, Case Studies
Why Are We Using Action Learning and in What Contexts?
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Park, Sunyoung; Kang, Ingu; Valencic, Taryn R.; Cho, Yonjoo – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the contexts in which action learning has been used and provide implications for the design of action learning programmes. We performed a content analysis of 127 articles (case studies and case reports included) published in "Action Learning: Research and Practice" between 2004 and 2012. In this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Content Analysis, Case Studies, Professional Development
Identifying Balanced Action Learning: Cases of South Korean Practices
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Cho, Yonjoo; Bong, Hyeon-Cheol – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2010
Despite considerable commitment to the application of action learning as leadership and organization development by a large number of Korean organizations, few identified empirical studies of action learning practices have been reported. The purpose of this study was to conduct case studies of South Korean action learning practices to examine…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Organizational Development, Case Studies, Educational Practices
Action Learning and Organisation Development: Overlapping Fields of Practice
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Edmonstone, John – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2011
This paper explores the relationship between action learning and Organisation Development (OD). It proposes that they are overlapping fields of practice, with interesting similarities and differences. Both fields of practice are experienced as challenging to conventional ways of viewing organisations and people but are also subject to increasing…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Organizational Development, Educational Practices, Correlation
Developmental Action Learning: Toward Collaborative Change
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Raelin, Joseph A.; Raelin, Jonathan D. – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2006
In this account of practice, the authors introduce a variant of classic action learning, called developmental action learning (DAL). The DAL model, derived from cognitive development theory, introduces conventional learning modules prior to the more intensive set experience. It also calls for facilitation designed to help participants, selected…
Descriptors: Institutional Cooperation, Experiential Learning, Learning Modules, Organizational Development
Facilitating Organizational Development through Action Learning--Some Practical and Theoretical Considerations
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Donnenberg, Otmar; De Loo, Ivo – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2004
Action learning programmes are supposed to result in both personal and organizational development. However, organizational development can be negligible because, as the term implies, a connection must be secured between what has been learned by action learning participants and other members of an organization. Here, the facilitation and analysis…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Experiential Learning, Organizational Development, Performance Factors