Development and the Learning Organisation - Couverture souple

Roper, Laura; Pettit, Jethro; Eade, Deborah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0855984708 ISBN 13 : 9780855984700

Editeur : Oxfam, 2003

Synopsis

As development NGOs and official aid agencies embrace the idea of "becoming a learning organisation", they are increasingly concerned with some form of knowledge generation and organizational learning. To date, the literature on these issues tended to come out of the private sector and reflect a Western worldview. This book presents contributions from development scholars and practitioners from a range of institutional backgrounds around the world, some introducing new approaches and models, others offering critical case studies of individual and group learning practice across cultures, and organizational efforts to put theory into practice. Among the lessons to emerge from this work are that learning is hard to do, that we often learn the wrong things and that huge gaps often remain between our learning and our behaviour or practice. There are clearly no simple recipes for success, but when learning breakthroughs do occur, the organizational whole can truly become more than the sum of its parts.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jethro Pettit is a fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, UK. He has worked with international NGOs, including World Neighbors and Oxfam America.

Deborah Eade was Editor-in-Chief of Development in Practice from 1991 to 2010, prior to which she worked for 10 years in Latin America. She is now an independent writer on development and humanitarian issues, based near Geneva.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxfam
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0855984708
• ISBN 13: 9780855984700
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 452
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible