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Thursday, January 12, 2017

Social learning traditions


  • Learning systems (Donald Schön), e.g. ‘Government as a learning system’.
    • interaction and transformation
  • Appreciative systems (Geoffrey Vickers).
    • interaction and transformation
  • Critical social learning systems (The Hawkesbury tradition / Richard Bawden et al.).
    • ethics and epistemology
  • Communities of practice (CoPs) (Etienne Wenger).
    • engagement, boundary interactions, discourses, identity, interpersonal relationships and tools.
(OU, 2010, p. 2013; Blackmore, 2010, p. 202).

Blackmore (2010, pp. 206, 207-, 216) identifies "landscape of social learning systems praxis" themes across the traditions:



and could include;

15. Meaning.
16. Governance.
17. Power.
(Blackmore (2010, 216).

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