What am I to action learning and what is action learning to me?. (1st September 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Doherty, Daniel
• Is Part Of: Action learning. Volume 13:Number 3(2016)
• Page Start: 263
• Page End: 271
• Publication Date: 2016-09-01
• Subjects: Action learning -- autoethnography -- management history -- origin narratives; Organizational learning -- Periodicals; Active learning -- Periodicals; 153.152
• DOI: 10.1080/14767333.2016.1220168
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1476-7333

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This account of practice charts one organisation development practitioner's experience of the influence of action learning (AL) at various points in his career, from the early 1970s to the present day. It explores the impact of AL upon his practice over the years, chronicling various episodes which had strongest impact. It contrasts AL as it was in its formative years in the UK with how it is now, asking some questions as to how the early pioneering spirit might sustain the face of forces for commoditisation.