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Action Learning

History and Evolution

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Yury Boshyk

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

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  2. Robert L. Dilworth

    1. Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Action Learning: History and Foundations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Explaining Traditional Action Learning: Concepts and Beliefs

      • Robert L. Dilworth
      Pages 3-28

    3. Remembering Reg Revans: Action Learning’s Principal Pioneer

      • Albert E. Barker
      Pages 29-47

    4. Reg Revans: Sources of Inspiration, Practice, and Theory

      • Yury Boshyk, Albert E. Barker, Robert L. Dilworth
      Pages 48-72

    5. Revans: The Man and His Legacy

      • David Botham, Robert L. Dilworth, Yury Boshyk
      Pages 73-95

    6. National Level Experiments with Action Learning: Belgium and Beyond

      • Robert L. Dilworth, David Bellon, Yury Boshyk
      Pages 96-113

  3. The Evolution of Action Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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    2. Milestones in the History and Worldwide Evolution of Action Learning

      • Yury Boshyk, Albert E. Barker, Robert L. Dilworth
      Pages 117-204

    3. Action Learning in Different National and Organizational Contexts and Cultures

      • Robert L. Dilworth, Yury Boshyk
      Pages 205-233

    4. Action Learning Today: Resources, Networks, and Communities of Practice

      • Yury Boshyk, Robert L. Dilworth
      Pages 234-279

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 280-299
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About this book

The first of a two volume set that fully explore the roots of action learning and the legacy of its principal pioneer, Reg Revans. Rather than prescribe one approach to action learning, it shows alternative approaches to fit different contexts, including classic action learning, action reflection learning and business driven action learning.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Yury Boshyk

  • Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

    Robert L. Dilworth

About the editors

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. 

ROBERT L. DILWORTH 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 thegraduate 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.

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