The Black Box of GovernmentalLearning : The Learning Spiral - A Concept to OrganizeLearning in Governments

Blindenbacher, Raoul ; Nashat, Bidjan

World Bank

关键词: ACTION LEARNING;    ADJUSTMENT;    ADULT LEARNING;    ATTENTION;    ATTRIBUTION;   

DOI  :  10.1596/978-0-8213-8453-4
RP-ID  :  55538

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

There are more poor people and povertyreaches further into middle-income countries around theworld than ever before. Adequate governmental capacitydevelopment is considered one of the critical missingfactors in current efforts to reduce poverty and, by doingso, to meet the millennium development goals. If thedevelopment of sustainable capacity is not given greaterattention in the near future, development efforts in thepoorest countries are expected to fail even if they aresupported with substantially increased funding. Oneeffective way to improve the quality of democraticgovernments is by their learning from the past and from eachother's experiences. But to what extent are governmentscapable of and/or willing to learn? And if they are, whatare they supposed to learn-and how? Is the way they learndifferent from the way individuals or organizations learn?Under what conditions do they learn best, and to what extentcan learning events enhance their capacities to improve theperformance of their public sectors? These and many relatedquestions are examined in the black box of governmental learning.