ABSTRACT
Are they all talking about the same thing? Is any group of learners a ‘learning set’? Does it matter? Why are there whole books (McGill and Beaty, 1992; Revans, 1998; Weinstein, 1998) written about action learning, as well as an ‘Institute of Action Learning’ (www.action-learning.org) and even a ‘University of Action Learning’ (www.u-a-l.org)? Are all learning sets involved in action learning? To answer some of these questions, we are going to first look back at the roots of ‘action learning’ and then address some of the practical issues for HPE.
