Reflective Learning in Practice

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Anne Brockbank, Ian McGill, Nic Beech
Gower Publishing, Ltd., 2002 - Business & Economics - 229 pages
This book gathers together details of seventeen case studies of learning in practice, after having set the issue of reflective learning in a theoretical context. The cases are drawn from a wide range of situations and discuss both apparent successes and failures. The cases are used as a basis to develop general findings. These general findings are expressed as themes and questions so that, as readers come across new circumstances, they are not limited by prescriptive recipes. Instead they are empowered by having both an open and focused approach: open because the starting point is questions rather than answers, and focused because the questions direct attention to factors that have been found to be influential for effective, reflective learning. The crucial factor is the ability of managers and others to extract quality learning from experience. Reflective Learning in Practice develops an approach that will help this to happen.
 

Contents

Our Purpose
3
Reflective Learning and Organizations
15
Themes of Reflective Learning
29
On the Journey Learning Through and Around Development
41
Learning with Sainsburys during the 1990s
51
Learning to Manage Change in the Health Service
59
Leadership Learning at Novartis
69
Pearl Assurance Better by Miles
78
IMPACT at Thus plc
85
Organizational Change and Learning at Allied Distillers
103
Action Learning at the London Borough of Ealing
129
Values Work in Health and Health Education
150
A Life in Five Chapters
167
Knowledge Management and CELT
186
Conclusion
213
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