Action Learning — or antiquity reborn

Abstract

A recent issue of The Behavioral Sciences Newsletter referred to action learning as the latest management buzzwords in Europe. It is, on the contrary, a codification of the oldest activities of Mankind, since we became the social animals we are only by each learning with and from the other by common responses in the face of threat. Action learning asks whether managers learn anything useful in their tasks of managing by being cloistered with experts in the traditional programmes; it prefers real managers to tackle real problems in real time, so that by asking each other how they deal with today's troubles, and by observing the outcomes, they may succeed in dealing more effectively with tomorrow's.

Citation

Revans, R. (1978), "Action Learning — or antiquity reborn", Education + Training, Vol. 20 No. 4, pp. 121-124. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb016548