Actionlearning emerged as an important idea in the late 1960s. At this time and withthe help of colleagues, Revans initiated two major projects: in a consortium ofLondon hospitals (Wieland and Leig...
Professor R.W. Revans‘There is no learning without action and no (sober and deliberate) action without learning’ （R.W. Revans 1907-2003）Revans never gave a single definition of action learn...
These four elements are depicted in Figure 1.2. · First, each person joins and takes partvoluntarily. (You can’t be sent or send anyone else-although you might work atpersuading and encourag...
Tackling difficult challenges and wicked problems is perhaps demanding enough, and yet there is more. Revans was passionate in encouraging people to help themselves, and also urged us to help those...
However,action learning was designed for an industrial society and for an age marked bythe increasing predominance of large scale organizations. Behind the simplerules of action learning described ...
However,a further analysis of Revans’ thoughts on the role of the action learning facilitator reveals three important aspects or parts of this role(Figure 2.1). Figure 2.1 The three roles of...
