Understanding Action Learning

INTRODUCTION

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

—Ghandi

“Since knowledge is about yesterday, the real learning takes place through questions about today and tomorrow.”

—IFAL-USA

What Is Action Learning?

This book is about Action Learning (AL), an approach to developing people that has become increasingly used by organizations. In the first chapter of this book, we show how AL grew out of a common interest in different parts of the world in an action-based approach to learning from experience that values the knowledge people develop by doing things. People have come to define AL in different ways, but at ...