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This book is about action learning in the service of social action and social change. The contributors are all engaged in developing new approaches to the many problems found in the world today.
List of contents
1. On social action
Mike Pedler
2. Practising change together - Where nothing is clear, and everything keeps changing
Cathy Sharp
3. Participatory action research as political education
Éva Tessza Udvarhelyi
4. The transformative potential of action learning in community-based research for social action
Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt and Lesley Wood
5. Action learning & Action research to alleviate poverty
George Boak, Jeff Gold and Dave Devins
6. Carbon management and community-based action learning: a theory to work experience
Annie Booth, Kyle Aben, Todd Corrigall, and Barbara Otter
7. Using participatory action learning to empower the active citizenship of young people
Anna Jarkiewicz
8. Social action learning: applicability to comrades in adversity in Nigeria
Adrian Ogun, and Jeff Gold
9. Action learning in the service of food security and poverty alleviation in Mozambique
Armando Machevo Ussivane and Paul Ellwood
10. Developing the circular economy in Tasmania
Genevieve Cother
11. Exploring the challenges of system leadership in the voluntary and community sector
Stephen Moss
12. Using action learning to tackle food insecurity in Scotland
Chelsea Marshall and Ruth Cook
13. Developing empowered and connected leaders in the social sector: the Rank Foundation's engagement with Action Learning
Sam Anderson, Caroline Broadhurst, Siobhan Edwards and Michelle Smith
14. DIAL: the rise of cafe-based, drop-in action learning
Paul Levy and David Knowles
About the author
Mike Pedler is Emeritus Professor, Henley Business School, University of Reading and founding editor of the journal Action Learning: Research and Practice. He has been working with action learning since 1976, when he first met Reg Revans.
Sonja Antell is Director of Action Learning Associates. She has been designing and delivering action learning interventions and facilitator training since 1998.
Summary
This book is about action learning in the service of social action and social change. The contributors are all engaged in developing new approaches to the many problems found in the world today.
