Action Learning: A Holographic Metaphor for Guiding Social Change

1 January 1984

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Human Relations

Vol. 37 (1) , 1-27
https://doi.org/10.1177/001872678403700101

Abstract

This paper develops the concept of action learning in terms of holographic principles. It offers an approach to inquiry, learning, and organizational design in terms of minimum critical conditions which seek to enhance capacities for individual and collective self-organization.

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