IFAL--USA, International Foundation for Action Learning

1) How do you help people with less power in a situation or involve them in a productive conversation?

• "Developing Critical Thinkers: Challenging Adults to Explore Alternative Ways of Thinking and Acting" by Stephen D. Brookfield, Jossey-Bass 1987
• "Knowledge, Difference and Power", Edited by Nancy Goldberger, Jill Tarule, Blythe Clinchy & Mary Belenky, Basic Books 1996

2) What does action learning do to change the organization?

• "Action Learning: Successful Strategies for Individual, Team, and Organizational Development", Edited by Lyle Yorks, Judy O'Neil and Victoria J. Marsick, Sage, July, 2000.
• "Organization Development: A Data-Driven Approach to Organizational Change" Edited by Janine Waclawski and Allan H. Church, Chapter 9, Action Learning, by Victoria J. Marsick, Judy O'Neil and Karen E. Watkins, Jossey- Bass, 2002.
• "In Action: Creating the Learning Organization",  Section 4 Team and Action Learning Programs and the Learning Organization Edited by Karen E. Watkins, and Victoria J. Marsick,, ASTD, 1996
• "Facilitating Learning Organizations:  Making Learning Count", Victoria J. Marsick and Karen E. Watkins,  Chapter 8, Changing Whole Systems:  Leadership is Real Work at Public Service Electric & Gas, Inc. by Judy O'Neil, Gower 1999.
• "The Persean Ethic: Consistency of Belief and Action in Managerial Practice" by Joseph A Raelin, Human Relations, Vol. 46, No. 5, 1993