A review of action learning literature 1994-2000: Part 2--signposts into the literature

Abstract

Many organizations now utilize action learning, and it is appliedincreasingly throughout the world. Action learning appears in numerousvariants, but generically it is a form of learning through experience,"by doing", where the task environment is the classroom, and thetask the vehicle. Two previous reviews of the action learning literatureby Alan Mumford respectively covered the field prior to 1985 andthe period 1985-1994. Both reviews included books as well as journalarticles. This current review covers the period 1994-2000 and islimited to publicly available journal articles. Part 1 of the Reviewwas published in an earlier issue of the Journal of Workplace Learning(Vol. 15 No. 2) and included a bibliography and comments. Part 2extends that introduction with a schema for categorizing action learningarticles and with comments on representative articles from the bibliography.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]