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This chapter examines the development of a means of capturing expansive learning for the purpose of research into organizational learning. I tackle the question of why such an index might be needed, before describing four parameters of organizational learning that such an index might help to highlight. In the third, final section, I discuss the challenges to such a research tool, stressing the tensions inherent to organizational contexts.
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While it might be tempting to some to reduce the index to a trivial tick-box exercise, it would be counterproductive for the organization to do so.
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Beighton, C. (2016). Toward an Expansive Learning Index. In: Expansive Learning in Professional Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57436-7_5
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