Action learning in practice:
how do participants learn? |
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Action learning and peer consultation are ways of learning with fellow professionals that are gaining in popularity. In small groups the professionals submit issues from their work for systematic discussion with their colleagues.
The study involved a written questionnaire containing 31 closed questions and answered by 126 participants in action-learning groups. In response to the question “How do participants learn?” we have noticed a picture emerging of a learning group that learns more during than after the action-learning sessions, and learns primarily by exploring issues in depth and receiving personal feedback. Divergent or reflective learning seems to reign. |
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