Action Learning: Research and Practice

2004 - 2025

Current editor(s): Kiran Trehan and Clare Rigg

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Volume 16, issue 3, 2019

A call to act through action! pp. 203-204

David Higgins

Improving teamworking competence through action learning. Experiences in operations management education pp. 205-222

Cristina Garcia-Palao, Maria J. Oltra-Mestre and Paul Coughlan

Is action learning culture bound? An exploration pp. 223-237

John Edmonstone

Origins of the ethos of action learning pp. 238-253

Tom Bourner and Asher Rospigliosi

Action learning: extending the reach pp. 254-255

Kath Aspinwall, Kathryn Winterburn, Christine Abbott and Chandana Sanyal

An anger management programme as an action learning set pp. 256-265

Gary Shepherd

How do facilitators most effectively support CAL?: an account of practice of a facilitator’s research project pp. 266-279

Daniel Scott

The action learning organisation – an account of practice pp. 280-294

Genevieve June Cother, Robert Fletcher Cother, William Stanley Woodworth, Leslie John Souster, Daniel Moriarty, Luke Miller, Roxanne Chugg and Christine Sophia Cother

Account of practice: using action learning to develop and educate undergraduate management degree apprentices pp. 295-303

Becky Quew Jones and Cheryl Brook

Reconnecting with context and community pp. 304-305

Judith Breen, Mike Pedler, John Edmonstone and Brian Milsom

Studying leadership: traditional and critical approaches pp. 306-309

Stephen Brookes

Fostering critical thinking through collaborative group work: insights from Hong Kong pp. 309-311

Robin Stanley Snell

The complete handbook of coaching: third edition pp. 311-314

Mary Holmes

Systems leadership in health and social care pp. 314-317

Sue Pritchard

Action learning and action research: genres and approaches pp. 317-321

Cathy Sharp

Correction pp. 322-322

The Editors

Volume 16, issue 2, 2019

Have leaders got the questioning habit? pp. 105-106

Cheryl Brook

How to ask better questions? Dewey's theory of ecological psychology in encouraging practice of action learning pp. 107-122

Rasmus Pedanik

Deriving an affinity for collective leadership: below the surface of action learning pp. 123-135

Joseph A. Raelin

Beyond critical action learning?: Action learning’s place in the world pp. 136-148

John Edmonstone

Facilitating action learning; an assumed norm? pp. 149-150

Kathryn Winterburn, Christine Abbott, Kath Aspinwall and Chandana Sanyal

Becoming a midwife to wisdom: a retrospective account of practice of an action learning facilitator pp. 151-158

Daniel Scott

Integration of the practice of mindfulness within action learning as an added component within a post graduate leadership programme: an account of practice pp. 159-165

Chandana Sanyal

How to create an action learning environment that makes self and social awareness business-like pp. 166-177

Dorte Sandager, Kirsten Bragh and Lotte Svalgaard

A double win: practice and participation in an action learning facilitators’ set pp. 178-186

Nicola Wilson and Caragh Dewis

Finding new insights in the action and the learning pp. 187-188

Judith Breen, Mike Pedler, John Edmonstone and Brian Milsom

A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about cross-cultural management pp. 189-192

John Edmonstone

The Palgrave handbook of organizational change thinkers pp. 192-196

Yury Boshyk

The story cookbook: practical recipes for change pp. 196-198

Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt

Conducting action research for business and management students pp. 198-200

Bernadette McDonald

Learn how to fold a stingray! pp. 200-202

Mike Pedler

Volume 16, issue 1, 2019

What can action learning offer a troubled world? pp. 1-2

Clare Rigg

Action learning for social action pp. 3-4

Mike Pedler and Sonja Antell

Examining the development of action learning practice in South Korea pp. 5-22

Yonjoo Cho, Hyeon-Cheol Bong and Hyeong-Sook Kim

What can be learned from action learning coaching? Learnings of novice action learners and their coach pp. 23-36

Angela Danielle Carter

Leadership development, wicked problems and action learning: provocations to a debate pp. 37-51

John Edmonstone, Aileen Lawless and Mike Pedler

Trust and collaboration build new futures pp. 52-53

Christine Abbott, Kath Aspinwall, Kathryn Winterburn and Chandana Sanyal

‘Once, there was a life, a life that someone could not enjoy’: Learning and development in an action research project pp. 54-61

Sara Csillag

Creating a path out of bankruptcy through action learning pp. 62-67

Mark Chrystal

Building high-performance teams through action learning pp. 68-76

Peter Cauwelier

An account of practice: employing drawings and stories to enable reflective learning pp. 77-86

Jane Robertson, Heidi le Sueur and Nicky Terblanche

Speaking with different voices for a new way of living pp. 87-87

Judith Breen, Mike Pedler, John Edmonstone and Brian Milsom

The John Maynard Keynes of the 21st century? pp. 88-92

Mike Pedler

An introduction to coaching skills: a practical guide pp. 92-94

Mary Holmes

Executive Team Leadership in the Global Economic and Competitive Environment pp. 95-97

Richard Hale

Global leadership perspectives – insights and analysis pp. 97-100

Jean-Anne Stewart

A University Education pp. 100-104

Tom Bourner

Volume 15, issue 3, 2018

Scholarly practice: re-connecting the l, p and q pp. 207-209

Aileen Lawless, Jim Stewart and Lynn Nichol

Yes we can: towards assurance of learning by scholarly academics through a praxeology of the scholarship of teaching pp. 210-223

David Coghlan and Paul Coughlan

Becoming a scholarly practitioner: as a teacher in higher education ‘how do I improve my practice’? pp. 224-234

Mary Hartog

Action learning through radio: exploring conceptual views and lived experiences of women entrepreneurs pp. 235-248

Loliya Agbani Akobo

Categorical entanglements of scholarly practice – re-connecting ‘L’, ‘P’ and ‘Q’ in new ways pp. 249-257

Paul Ellwood

Can business schools increase student employability by embedding action learning into undergraduate management education? An account of practice pp. 258-266

Catherine J. Groves, Gabrielle D. Orbaek White, Fuangfa Panya and Jim Stewart

The role of Action Learning in supporting cross-cultural adaptation of international students pp. 267-275

Helen Collins and David Callaghan

North West Cross Institutional Action Learning developing women's leadership pp. 276-286

Meriel Box and Tracy Ellis

Academic–practitioner relationships: developments, complexities and opportunities pp. 287-291

Julie Davies

Action learning in health, social and community care principles, practice and resources pp. 291-293

Paul Taylor

Volume 15, issue 2, 2018

Management education in action – observations, reflections and ways forward pp. 87-89

David Higgins

Reflective practice or poetic mindfulness: a role for social poetics in constructing and performing futures pp. 90-101

Caroline Ramsey

Energising critique in action and in learning: The GNOSIS 4R Framework pp. 102-125

Elena Antonacopoulou

Action learning in East Africa: new encounters or impossible challenges? pp. 126-138

Ulrike Burger and Kiran Trehan

A blended learning curriculum for training peer researchers to conduct community-based participatory research pp. 139-150

Andrew D. Eaton, Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco, Shelley L. Craig, Soo Chan Carusone, Michael Montess, Gordon A. Wells and Galo F. Ginocchio

Action learning: from individual learning to organisational development pp. 151-153

Kath Aspinwall, Christine Abbott, Sue Smith and Kathryn Winterburn

From nurturing the H in HR to developing the D in OD – systemic benefits where action learning and organisational development combine pp. 154-167

Richard Hale, Carolyn Norgate and James Traeger

Report on some action research in the implementation of social prescription in Crawley. Paths to greater wellbeing: ‘sometimes you have to be in it to get it’ pp. 168-181

Danny Chesterman and Malcolm Bray

Account of practice: transferring the ‘drawer of nonsense’ from a DBA-program to daily professional practice pp. 182-188

Gido Englisch

The potential of powerful learning pp. 189-189

Judith Breen, Mike Pedler, John Edmonstone and Brian Milsom

Applications of action learning, a practical guide / Empowering change through facilitation – become a facilitator. Help others to help themselves pp. 190-193

Mike Bloodworth

Conferences as sites of learning and development: using participatory action learning and action research approaches pp. 193-197

John Edmonstone

Action research: all you need to know pp. 197-200

Maeve O’Grady

Doing research in the business world pp. 200-202

Steve Marshall

Human resource management, strategic and international perspectives pp. 202-206

Neil O’Sullivan

Volume 15, issue 1, 2018

Past, present and future – how do we know what we know in action learning? pp. 1-2

Clare Rigg

Learning, action and solutions in action learning: investigation of facilitation practice using the concept of living theories pp. 3-17

Chandana Sanyal

Collaborative knowledge and intellectual property: an action learning conundrum pp. 18-27

Tish Elliott and Mike Pedler

The Nurses Memorandum of 1938: a first step in the development of action learning? pp. 28-37

Tom Bourner, Cheryl Brook and Mike Pedler

An invitation to reflect on facilitation and evaluation within action learning pp. 38-39

Kathryn Winterburn, Sue Smith, Christine Abbott and Kath Aspinwall

Leadership development through virtual action learning: an evaluation pp. 40-51

Kath Aspinwall, Mike Pedler and Phil Radcliff

A new facilitator in action and on action pp. 52-60

Greta Hofman

Making facilitation work: the challenges on an international DBA action learning set pp. 61-67

Jack OFarrell

Emphasing and enriching both episteme and techne pp. 68-68

Judith Breen, Mike Pedler, John Edmonstone and Brian Milsom

Managing change, creativity and innovation pp. 69-72

John Edmonstone

Lead and disrupt – How to solve the innovator's dilemma pp. 72-73

Annie Yeadon-Lee

Paradox regained pp. 73-78

Mike Pedler

A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about studying organizations pp. 78-81

Deborah M. Humphreys

How to Coach Your Team – Release team potential and hit peak performance pp. 81-83

Wyn Owen

Understanding social enterprise 2nd edition pp. 84-86

Christine Abbott