Story Telling
1. The Big Story .. The Sweep of History thus
far
After the death in January 2003 of Dr. Reg Revans, the action learning
inspiration for IMCA and our University, his daughter Marina with
the remainder of Reg's family asked Salford University's Revans
Institute to organise a Workshop in Celebration of Reg's Life and
this was held at The Lowry Centre on Salford Quays on May 23rd 2003.
(Salford University houses the Revans Records and Archives at his
special request.) For that occasion a broad sweep of our history
was collated and is linked
here.
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Marina Revans with Revans University Chancellor Dr. Gordon
Prestoungrange
at Salford University. |
2. Historical Insights for Faculty Members
Faculty Members play a crucial role as action learning facilitators
and how to craft and improve that has a permanent place on the agenda.
Gaining and sustaining global accreditations from London and Washington
that are accepted by the British Council and the Secretary of State
for Education have been there too. But to maintain its independence
IMCA's Faculty Members must necessarily take responsibility for its
economic wellbeing. The creation of Ordinance11 and Ordinance 13 Partners,
and a global pattern of Regional Faculties, has ensured survival and
an ever growing contribution
- linked here.
3. Historical Insights for Associates
Associates, which is IMCA's term for those who are action learning
with us, are our lifeblood. IMCA was not established to advance
the body of knowledge as an end itself, and to employ Faculty members
to undertake independent research. [ Faculty do that but that is
not IMCA's raison d'etre.]
Associates bring the real issues and challenges of their workplace
to their Set meetings and rightly expect their fellow Associates
and Faculty to focus on those as the curriculum for learning. And
fellow Set members and Faculty in turn expect each Associate concerned
to act upon the issues and challenges and share the progress and
frustrations as they arise.
Krystyna Weinstein, undertook an important IMCA Fellowship study
in 1995 that discribed and analysed The Associate experience - linked
here.
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