1st Edition

Action Learning for Social Action Taking Part in Social Change

Edited By Mike Pedler Copyright 2021
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

This book is about action learning in the service of social action and social change. The contributors are all engaged in developing new approaches to the wicked problems found in the world today, including the climate emergency, the circular economy, food poverty and insecurity, homelessness, disadvantage, active citizenship, social entrepreneurialism, and the learning of young women abducted by... Read more

1. On social action

Mike Pedler

2. Practising change together - Where nothing is clear, and everything keeps changing

Cathy Sharp

3. Participatory action research as political education

Éva Tessza Udvarhelyi

4. The transformative potential of action learning in community-based research for social action

Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt and Lesley Wood

5. Action learning & Action research to alleviate poverty

George Boak, Jeff Gold and Dave Devins

6. Carbon management and community-based action learning: a theory to work experience 

Annie Booth, Kyle Aben, Todd Corrigall, and Barbara Otter

7. Using participatory action learning to empower the active citizenship of young people

Anna Jarkiewicz

8. Social action learning: applicability to comrades in adversity in Nigeria

Adrian Ogun, and Jeff Gold

9. Action learning in the service of food security and poverty alleviation in Mozambique

Armando Machevo Ussivane and Paul Ellwood

10. Developing the circular economy in Tasmania

Genevieve Cother

11. Exploring the challenges of system leadership in the voluntary and community sector

Stephen Moss

12. Using action learning to tackle food insecurity in Scotland

Chelsea Marshall and Ruth Cook

13. Developing empowered and connected leaders in the social sector: the Rank Foundation's engagement with Action Learning

Sam Anderson, Caroline Broadhurst, Siobhan Edwards and Michelle Smith

14. DIAL: the rise of cafe-based, drop-in action learning

Paul Levy and David Knowles

Biography

Mike Pedler is Emeritus Professor, Henley Business School, University of Reading and founding editor of the journal Action Learning: Research and Practice. He has been working with action learning since 1976, when he first met Reg Revans.

Sonja Antell is Director of Action Learning Associates. She has been designing and delivering action learning interventions and facilitator training since 1998.