Action Learning for Social Action

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.

• 1. On social actionMike Pedler2. Practising change together - Where nothing is clear, and everything keeps changingCathy Sharp3. Participatory action research as political educationÉva Tessza Udvarhelyi 4. The transformative potential of action learning in community-based research for social actionOrtrun Zuber-Skerritt and Lesley Wood5. Action learning & Action research to alleviate poverty George Boak, Jeff Gold and Dave Devins6. Carbon management and community-based action learning: a theory to work experience Annie Booth, Kyle Aben, Todd Corrigall, and Barbara Otter7. Using participatory action learning to empower the active citizenship of young people Anna Jarkiewicz8. Social action learning: applicability to comrades in adversity in NigeriaAdrian Ogun, and Jeff Gold9. Action learning in the service of food security and poverty alleviation in MozambiqueArmando Machevo Ussivane and Paul Ellwood 10. Developing the circular economy in TasmaniaGenevieve Cother11. Exploring the challenges of system leadership in the voluntary and community sectorStephen Moss12. Using action learning to tackle food insecurity in ScotlandChelsea Marshall and Ruth Cook13. Developing empowered and connected leaders in the social sector: the Rank Foundation's engagement with Action LearningSam Anderson, Caroline Broadhurst, Siobhan Edwards and Michelle Smith14. DIAL: the rise of cafe-based, drop-in action learningPaul Levy and David Knowles