Updated handbook combining both the theory and practice of all types of learning that employ activity-based experience. Techniques included are used in management education and corporate training.
Colin Beard is a senior lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, director of The Experiential Company and has recently received the accolade of being awarded a National Fellowship Award. Dr John P Wilson is the editor of Human Resource Development (published by Kogan Page), a senior lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University and also a director of The Experiential Company.
Full of creative ideas that can be used by trainers and facilitators to develop their range of skills...The book illustrates the sort of issues that managers and HR specialists should consider when deciding whether to use such events to develop and motivate staff. In particular, it will help them to formulate the sort of questions that need to be asked of experiential learning providers before handing over some of their cash from hard-earned training budgets. People Management This book is valuable for all the boundary crossing it does. Other books on the subject do not go far beyond the walls of higher education, but this book draws on a huge range of sources... A stimulating collection of ideas and examples that encourages experimentation. Dr Roger Greenaway, Reviewing Skills Training The range of coverage is impressive. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning Beard and Wilson manage to smoothly lead the reader on a superlative tour of must see concepts and principles. Horizons Magazine I think you have written a beauty here and I suspect it is going places. International Association of Experiential Education
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