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TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring the Contribution of Action Learning to Transdisciplinary Research
AU - Rigg, Clare
AU - Coghlan, David
AU - Coughlan, Paul
AU - O'Leary, Denise
AU - Saabye, Henrik
AU - Powell, Daryl
PY - 2025/8/3
Y1 - 2025/8/3
N2 - Action learning has a rich heritage in management development and organizational learning. Its practices, in which groups of peers engage in questioning and reflection on actions to address problems, may be brought to a transdisciplinary research initiative, thereby creating a forum and process for members of transdisciplinary groups to work together. Transdisciplinary research through action learning is a candidate response to substantive problems for which no single disciplinary solution exist. In this paper, we make the case that the process of action learning facilitates the enactment of transdisciplinary research. Further, noting that enacting TDR is itself also a problem, we contend that engaging the co-researchers as an action learning set can lead to co-directing, co-developing and co-deploying resources to address the substantive problem.
AB - Action learning has a rich heritage in management development and organizational learning. Its practices, in which groups of peers engage in questioning and reflection on actions to address problems, may be brought to a transdisciplinary research initiative, thereby creating a forum and process for members of transdisciplinary groups to work together. Transdisciplinary research through action learning is a candidate response to substantive problems for which no single disciplinary solution exist. In this paper, we make the case that the process of action learning facilitates the enactment of transdisciplinary research. Further, noting that enacting TDR is itself also a problem, we contend that engaging the co-researchers as an action learning set can lead to co-directing, co-developing and co-deploying resources to address the substantive problem.
KW - action learning
KW - Interdisciplinarity
KW - TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
M3 - Journal article
JO - The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
JF - The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
SN - 0021-8863
ER -