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Professional Background

Associate Professor of Adult & Continuing Education and AEGIS Program Coordinator

Educational Background

  • Ed.D. Columbia University, New York, N.Y. May 1995 
  • M.A. Columbia University, New York, N.Y.  May 1993
  • M.A. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. May 1972
  • B.A. Tusculum College, Greeneville, TN. June 1968

Scholarly Interests

Action Learning.

Collaborative Inquiry.

Qualitative Research Methods.

Strategic Approaches to Human Resource Development.

Application of adult learning theory to individual, group, and organizational learning, and workforce and organizational development.

Selected Publications

Poell, R.F., Marsick, V.J., & Yorks, L. (forthcoming, 2009/2010). The relation between central actors and level of reflection in action-learning programs: Dutch and U.S. data and theory compared. In M. Van Woerkom & R.F. Poell, (Eds.), Workplace learning. London, U.K.: Routledge.

Yorks, L., Beechler, S., & Ciporen, R. (2007). Enhancing the impact of an open enrollment  executive program through assessment. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 6, 310-320.

Yorks, L., Neuman, J.H., Kowalski, D., & Kowalski, R. (2007). Lessons learned from a 5-year project within the Department of Veterans Affairs: Applying theories of interpersonal aggression and organizational justice to the development and maintenance of collaborative social space. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 43, 352-372.

Yorks, L., Aprill, A., James, L., Rees, A.M., Hoffman-Pinilla, & & Ospina, S. (2007). The tapestry of leadership: Lessons from six cooperative inquiry groups of social justice leaders. In P. Reason & H. Bradbury (Eds.), Handbook of action research: Participatory inquiry and  practice, (2nd edition), (pp. 497-509). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Yorks, L. (2005). Strategic human resource development in organizations. Mason. Ohio: South-Western College Publishing.

Yorks, L. (2005). Adult learning and the generation of new knowledge and meaning: Creating liberating spaces for fostering adult learning through practitioner based collaborative inquiry. Teachers College Record, 12, 9-25.

Yorks, L. (2004). Toward a political economy model for comparative analysis of the role of strategic human resource development leadership. Human Resource Development Review, 3, 189-208. (Outstanding Article Award, HRDR, Academy of Human Research Development).  

Yorks, L. (2003). Beyond the classroom: Transfer from work-based learning initiatives. In E. Holton and T. Baldwin, (Eds.). Improving learning transfer in organizations, (pp. 138- 160). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Yorks, L. & Kasl, E. (2002). Toward a theory and practice for whole-person learning: Reconceptualizing experience and the role of affect. Adult Education Quarterly, 52, 176-192. (Reprinted in Danish, in K. Illeris & s. Berri (Eds.). Texts on adult learning.  CopenhagenDenmark: Roskilde University Press.)


Lyle Yorks

Lyle Yorks

Associate Professor of Adult & Continuing Education

AEGIS Program Coordinator

Phone: 212-678-3820
Email:

Office Hours: By appointment.

Office Location: 210A Zankel