ABSTRACT
This chapter builds on my earlier chapter in this volume Action Learning: A Pragmatic and Moral Philosophy and, based on this view, develops practical proposals for evaluating action learning. The contents of this chapter are:
Introductory comments
A philosophical and meta theoretical basis for evaluating action learning
A discussion of what we might expect to be carried forward from action learning
A mixed method approach to evaluation
Case Study: evaluating shared leadership development in NHS Diabetes Networks
Instrumental or critical? A discussion of evaluation practice
Conclusions
