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The Wicked Problem of Employee Wellbeing: Creating Safe Space within a Change Laboratory
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Lawless, Aileen; Willocks, Katie Elizabeth – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2021
This article sheds light on employee wellbeing. We reveal how an 'adapted' action learning intervention (a change laboratory) introduced prior to the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, enabled learning and action to emerge within an educational programme. We utilise the theoretical lens of activity theory to illustrate the challenges and tensions of…
Descriptors: Employees, Well Being, Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning
Insider Research as Part of a Master's Programme: Opportunities Lost and Found within Action Learning Sets
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Milano, Chloe; Lawless, Aileen; Eades, Elaine – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2015
This account explores the role of action learning during and after an educational programme. We focus on the final stage of a master's programme and the insider research that is a key feature in many UK universities. Researching within one's own organization should lead to individual and organizational learning. However, there is relatively little…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Programs, Experiential Learning, Problem Solving
Action Learning as Legitimate Peripheral Participation
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Lawless, Aileen – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2008
This paper explores how students made sense of the learning that occurred within a Masters educational programme (an MA in Human Resource Development), a programme informed by the ideals of critical action learning and critically reflective practice. Theoretically the paper develops links between communities of practice theory and critical action…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Human Resources, Graduate Study, Critical Theory