ROBERT DILWORTH is an Associate Professor Emeritas at Virginia Commonwealth University.

YURY BOSHYK is founder of Global Executive Learning, a world-wide network of knowledge experts on global trends.

Preface	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. xi
Action Learning: History and Foundations
Explaining Traditional Action Learning: Concepts and Beliefs	p. 3
Introduction	p. 3
Understanding action learning's principal pioneer	p. 4
Basic precepts	p. 5
Conclusion	p. 26
Remembering Reg Revans: Action Learning's Principal Pioneer	p. 29
Early years	p. 30
Student years	p. 31
Other postgraduate activities	p. 32
Seeds of action learning	p. 33
War clouds over Europe	p. 35
Management by fire	p. 36
Coal Board	p. 37
Manchester University	p. 38
The Belgian years (1965-1975)	p. 39
The Hospital Internal Communications (HIC) Project	p. 40
From Higher Downs	p. 41
From Tilstock	p. 42
Basics of action learning	p. 43
Anecdotes	p. 43
Honors	p. 44
A few indicative attributes	p. 45
Last days	p. 46
Reg Revans: Sources of Inspiration, Practice, and Theory	p. 48
Parents and childhood	p. 48
Spirituality, Quakerism, and the practice of the “Clearness Committee”	p. 52
The Cambridge years and the Cavendish Laboratory (1928-1930, 1932-1935)	p. 59
World War II	p. 64
Work in the coal mines and the coal industry (1944-1946)	p. 68
Revans: The Man and His Legacy	p. 73
Introduction	p. 73
Glimpses of his personality and character	p. 73
A daughter's view	p. 78
Friend and Protégé of Revans	p. 81
A Summary: Proof of the power of action learning	p. 93
National Level Experiments with Action Learning: Belgium and Beyond	p. 96
Introduction	p. 96
The Belgian Experiment	p. 97
The Nile Project	p. 108
Applying knowledge gained in the Belgian Experiment to other national efforts	p. 111
The Evolution of Action Learning
Milestones in the History and Worldwide Evolution of Action Learning	p. 117
Introduction	p. 117
1907-1925: Early years	p. 118
1925-1935: University years	p. 119
1932-1935 Back to Cambridge	p. 120
1935-1945: Pioneering work in education and health care - World War II	p. 122
1944-1950: Coal mines and miners - years at the Mining Association of Great Britain and the National Coal Board	p. 124
1950-1955: Years as an independent research consultant	p. 131
1955-1965: The Manchester years	p. 133
1964-1965: Initiation of the Hospital Internal Communications Project(HIC Project)	p. 139
1965-1974(5): Self-exile	p. 140
1974-2003: Revans - Back to the U.K: The explication, adoption, and evolution of action learning worldwide: Theory and practice	p. 151
Action Learning in Different National and Organizational Contexts and Cultures	p. 205
Introduction	p. 205
The nature and importance of national cultural differences	p. 207
A survey of some selected cultural dichotomies and how they can be related to action learning	p. 212
Differences between domains, contexts, occupational groups and corporate cultures in adapting action learning approaches	p. 219
Some rules of thumb and resources that can be helpful	p. 225
An analysis of the hypothetical introduction of an action learning program in Japan	p. 225
Conclusion	p. 232
Action Learning Today: Resources, Networks, and Communities of Practice	p. 234
Publications by Reg Revans	p. 234
Archival and other primary sources	p. 250
Selected publications relating to the history and evolution of action learning	p. 252
Action learning networks and communities of practice	p. 277
A Collection of Photographs Related to Reg Revans and Action Learning	p. 280
Glossary	p. 285
Index	p. 291
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