Action Learning Team Experience

Description

This is about your team experience in class. In academic terms this section is your method. That is, in a research paper your method defines your subject of inquiry. For a case study, method is the experience. Put simply, briefly describe the "cast of characters" who made up the learning team you observed and the story (beginning, middle, end) of its learning experience. Structurally, begin with a short paragraph describing your team composition (the who) in a generic way without using people's names. Begin this paragraph with a phrase like: "The action learning team in this case is a team composed of four members." Then, go on to briefly describe the team's demographic characteristics. Don't ask your team members for personal demographic information; you are not doing a questionnaire or interview-based study of your team members. Rather, you are sharing your personal observations of how your team members appear to you. The purpose is to give the reader your observations of your team's composition. For example, you might write: "Three broad demographic characteristics are, first, three team members appear to be female and two male. Second, two members appear to be older adults and three younger adults. Third, one member is a student with limited work experience whereas the other members are established in careers. Next, describe the learning process the team actually experienced (the what, where and when). Take care not to start analyzing, this is simply the story of what happened as a series of events occurring over a period of time. Lastly, elaborate on one particular event, pattern (repeated events) or single-story thread that you would like to analyze in the discussion section of the paper.