The Walk Back to Learning in Action

This is a study of the pilot UWIC Business School SIMS project. This is an action research project for reflective practice by student teams on the MBA. The teams act as consultants to local industry and commerce. They employ a range of tools and techniques to promote corporate vision, reflective learning -in-action, and access tacit knowledge. The emergent dynamic is seen as parallel, staged processes of individual and group transformations which mirror each other as teams develop into micro learning organisations. We suggest that much of the current effort to retrieve tacit organisational knowledge is unduly linear. The tendency has been to assume the field of interaction of the team is bounded by that of the interpersonal dyad or is easily captured or represented by textual means alone. Not all individuals succeed in making the transition from passive to actively-embodied team learning.