Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to assess the extent to which these practitioners ' perspectives and practices match Willis ' s conception of a Revans “gold standard” of action learning. Design/methodology/approach – This study adopts a qualitative design and methodology based on...

In adapting Bowles' and Gintis's correspondence principle of education, this paper suggests that there are ways in which the theory and practice of action learning developed <italic>in correspondence</italic> with the NHS. In doing so, the paper draws, in part, upon an historical assessment of Revans' Hospital...

The question addressed in this paper is whether action learning as a management development technique can be more effective in promoting ethical decision-making than more traditional approaches. Recent examples of moral failures which have emerged in both corporate and public sector...