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In memoriam – Professor John Burgoyne

In memoriam – Professor John Burgoyne ACTION LEARNING: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE https://doi.org/10.1080/14767333.2023.2218137 OBITUARY John Burgoyne died on 22 April after a short illness. I had the great good fortune to have John Burgoyne as one of my two PhD supervisors (the other being Mike Pedler) so it is with considerable sadness that I learned of his passing. John was an inspirational figure in the field of management learning and the author of numerous books and journal articles. John’s interest in action learning is strongly represented in his many publications with articles on action learning practices (such as virtual action learning) sitting alongside his more philosophical and methodological interests (such as the pragmatist roots of action learning and critical realist interpretations of the approach). I first worked with John and Mike as a research assistant at the University of Salford back in 2002 and was able to witness at first-hand John’s ability to draw upon his considerable reserves of knowledge in developing a line of argument or proposing some new theoretical model. It was daunting but also exhilarating to hear John in full flow in discussions peppered with casual references to such luminaries as Lyotard, Rorty and Foucault. I was fortunate enough to have a modest http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Action Learning Research and Practice Taylor & Francis

In memoriam – Professor John Burgoyne

Brook, Cheryl
Action Learning Research and Practice , Volume 20 (2): 1 – May 4, 2023
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ACTION LEARNING: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE https://doi.org/10.1080/14767333.2023.2218137 OBITUARY John Burgoyne died on 22 April after a short illness. I had the great good fortune to have John Burgoyne as one of my two PhD supervisors (the other being Mike Pedler) so it is with considerable sadness that I learned of his passing. John was an inspirational figure in the field of management learning and the author of numerous books and journal articles. John’s interest in action learning is strongly represented in his many publications with articles on action learning practices (such as virtual action learning) sitting alongside his more philosophical and methodological interests (such as the pragmatist roots of action learning and critical realist interpretations of the approach). I first worked with John and Mike as a research assistant at the University of Salford back in 2002 and was able to witness at first-hand John’s ability to draw upon his considerable reserves of knowledge in developing a line of argument or proposing some new theoretical model. It was daunting but also exhilarating to hear John in full flow in discussions peppered with casual references to such luminaries as Lyotard, Rorty and Foucault. I was fortunate enough to have a modest

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