文档介绍：Action Leadership
Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt
Action Leadership
Towards a Participatory Paradigm
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Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt
Brisbane, Australia
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ISBN 978-90-481-3934-7 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3935-4
DOI -90-481-3935-4
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I dedicate this book to the disadvantaged
and oppressed, . those with little hope and
spirit, whether poor or rich, and to those
who help these people attain empowerment,
confidence and self-worth.
Learning does not mean to fill a barrel, but
to ignite a flame.
(Heraclitus, sixth century BC)
Foreword
In Chapter 2 of this book there appears a characterization of action research.
As Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt says, ‘It is a working definition’. Unlike most definitions,
it is not couched in a way that assumes a universal audience. It begins ‘If yours is
asituationinwhich...’. So it invites readers to recognize how far they are already
engaged in a process and how much further they might want to take it. This working
definition was an old friend of mine. Reading it again in this book I was suddenly
transported back over 20 years to a Symposium in anized by Ortrun.
I had been lucky enough to be among the participants there, and so part of the
process of producing what was then, literally, a ‘working definition’.
The Symposium was an eye-opener for me. Ortrun anized the Symposium
in a way that I have e to recogn