Action Learning and its Applications: Present and Future - Hardcover

 
9780230576414: Action Learning and its Applications: Present and Future
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0230576419 ISBN 13: 9780230576414
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Synopsis

This second volume of two discusses the employment of action learning in different contexts, including healthcare, education, government, military and the business world. Use of action learning in delivery of Future Search Conferences is addressed, as well as action learning in community and civil society and the future of action learning.

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About the Author

ROBERT L. DIILWORTH 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 the graduate 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.

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.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0230576419
ISBN 13 
9780230576414
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
337
Editor
Dilworth R., Boshyk Y.

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