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2024-05-24
Nic Beech, Paul Hibbert and Katy Mason
A Learning Orientation to Improve Impact Across Sectors
Learning plays a critical role in fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and impactful outcomes. This article presents a comprehensive learning framework that includes four interrelated steps: developing skills within communities to build expertise, facilitating dialogue across communities to share and expand knowledge, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue to challenge and refine best practices, and engaging in reflexive learning for personal and community transformation. Emphasizing the importance of situational learning, dialogic learning, and reflexive practice, the article argues for an intentional and iterative engagement with learning to improve the quality of relationships, spur innovation, and increase impact across sectors.