Systemic Inquiry

Author : Gail Simon,Alex Chard
Publisher : Everything Is Connected Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10
Category : Reflexive research
ISBN : 0993072305

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Systemic Inquiry by Gail Simon,Alex Chard Pdf

This edited book is for relationally reflexive practitioners who want to research practice with inspiring innovative research methodology and research in ways which reflect the sensitivity, creativity, values and practices from their everyday working lives. The chapters offer practical and theoretical help in forging connections between relationally sensitive practice, reflexive inquiry and the wider field of post-positivist qualitative inquiry. Reflexivity weaves systemic social constructionist, collaborative dialogical and narrative practices in the fields of therapy, consultation, teaching, supervision, leadership, organisational development, community work and activism. Mary Gergen - Foreword Part 1 - Systemic Methodology Gail Simon - Systemic Inquiry as a form of Qualitative Inquiry Alex Chard - Orientations: Systemic Approaches to Researching Practice Harlene Anderson - Collaborative-Dialogue Based Research as Everyday Practice: Questioning our Myths Sheila McNamee - Research as Relational Practice. Exploring Modes of Inquiry John Shotter - Methods for Practitioners in Inquiring into "the Stuff" of Everyday Life and its Continuous Co-Emergent Development Part 2 - Innovations in Systemic Inquiry Vikki Reynolds - A Solidarity Approach: The Rhizome & Messy Inquiry Saliha Bava - Performative Practices, Performative Relationships - in and as Emergent Research Jacob Storch & Karina Solso - Reporting from inside the emerging process of becoming research consultants Lisen Kebbe - Writing Essays as Dialogical Inquiry Kevin Barge, Carsten Hornstrup & Rebecca Gill - Conversational Reflexivity and Researching Practice Ann-Margreth Olsson - The Impact of Dialogical Participatory Action Research (DPAR). Riding in the peloton of dialogical collaboration Andreas Juhl - Pragmatic inquiry as a research method for knowledge creation in organisations Christine Oliver - Using Coordinated Management of Meaning to Define Systemic Reflexivity as a Research Position Sally St George & Dan Wulff - Research as Daily Practice Ann L Cunliffe, Professor of Organization Studies, University of Bradford, UK "This book connects research, relationships and ethics in a thoughtful and meaningful way. For anyone interested in taking a systemic constructionist perspective to researching and theorizing practice, the book is a great resource, offering practical guides, a range of methods, along with helpful examples from the experience of authors who are carrying out research in a variety of contexts. What is also important is that each chapter illustrates the 'realities' of doing research - that inquiry is not the structured, de-humanised process many research methods books convey. Instead, it is often a messy, challenging, reflexive and ultimately rewarding experience." Peter Lang and Susan Lang, Systemic Founders of KCC, London, UK "Here is a comprehensive bringing together of thoughts and practices involved in creating knowledge through doing systemic social constructionist research. A rich and inspiring resource for the practitioner. Travel in and enjoy your research activity " Frank J. Barrett, author "Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz" "This collection is a hopeful reminder that reflexive research can be a powerful and transformative intervention in social life. What an exciting and important book " Peter Stratton, Emeritus Professor of Family Therapy, University of Leeds, UK "This important book has assembled leading thinkers and researchers to usher in greater coherence to the imaginative thinking that has emerged as the postmodern social constructionist shift is applied to practitioner research.""

Author : Gail Simon,Alex Chard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0993072313

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Author : Arne Collen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351323505

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Systemic Change Through Praxis and Inquiry by Arne Collen Pdf

This new volume in the distinguished Praxiology series examines the confluence of praxiology, pragmatics, and systemics in the study of systemic change through human inquiry, particularly small group activities, human organizations, and globalizing trends. It covers core concepts indigenous to organizational life. The author presents and subsequently integrates several conceptual schemes relevant to human beings and small groups engaged in human inquiry for systemic change in organizational settings. Each key concept in the volume is covered in a chapter theme that articulates the praxiology and pragmatics of human inquiry. Chapter 1 examines change as a systemic idea from a research methodologist's point of view. Chapter 2 articulates numerous points to distinguish systemic from non-systemic research methods to bring about systemic change. Chapter 3 discusses the prevalence of hierarchy and control. Chapter 4 focuses on "disciplinarity," viewed as one kind of quest for understanding complexity and change. Chapter 5 describes praxiology in inquiry. Chapter 6 elaborates on emergent forms of praxiology. Chapter 7 demonstrates the viability of systemic change through praxiology. Chapter 8 targets the general features of research process that are the means to effectuate systemic change, while Chapter 9 elaborates on these means toward developing systemic inquiry to systemic change. Chapter 10 discusses "complexification" in human inquiry and systemic change. Systemic Change Through Praxis and Inquiry is a pioneering effort to attain a more integrated view of research methodology for human inquiry. It will be of great interest to students of business, management, and organizational studies. Arne Collen is a long-standing member of both the Executive Faculty at Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco and the Research and Teaching Adjunct Faculty in the California College of Organizational Studies and the California College of Professional Psychology of Alliant International University, San Francisco Bay Campus. He is a research methodologist, who, over the last three decades, has applied systemic and sociocybernetic perspectives to advances in research methodology for human inquiry. With Wojciech W. Gasparski, he is co-editor of Design and Systems, Volume 3 of the Praxiology series.

Author : Ray Ison
Publisher : Springer
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447173519

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Systems Practice: How to Act by Ray Ison Pdf

This book shows how to do systems thinking and translate that thinking into praxis (theory informed practical action). It will be welcomed by those managing or governing in situations of complexity and uncertainty across all domains of professional and personal life. The development of capabilities to think and act systemically is an urgent priority. Humans are now a force of nature, affecting whole-earth dynamics including the earth's climate - we live in an Anthropocene or Capitalocene and are confronted by the emergence of a ‘post-truth’, ‘big data’ world. What we have developed, organisationally and institutionally, seems very fragile. An imperative exists to recover whatever systemic sensibilities we still retain, to foster systems literacy and to invest in systems thinking in practice capability. This will be needed in future at personal, group, community, regional, national and international levels, all at the same time. Systems Practice: How to Act is structured into four parts. Part I introduces the societal need to invest in systems thinking in practice, in contexts of uncertainty and complexity epitomised by the challenges of responding to human-induced climate change. Part II unpacks what is involved in systems practice by means of a juggler isophor; examining situations where systems thinking offers useful understanding and opportunities for change. Part III identifies the main factors that constrain the uptake of systems practice and makes the case for innovation in practice by means of systemic inquiry, systemic action research and systemic intervention. The book concludes with Part IV, which critically examines how systems practice is, or might be, utilised at different levels from the personal to the societal./div

Author : Ray Ison
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781849961257

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Systems Practice: How to Act in a Climate Change World by Ray Ison Pdf

It is now accepted that humans are changing the climate of the Earth and this is the most compelling amongst a long litany of reasons as to why, collectively, we have to change our ways of thinking and acting. Most people now recognise that we have to be capable of adapting quickly as new and uncertain circumstances emerge: this capability will need to exist at personal, group, community, regional, national and international levels, all at the same time. Systems Practice is structured into four parts. Part I introduces the societal need to move towards a more systemic and adaptive governance against the backdrop of human-induced climate change. Part II unpacks what is involved in systems practice by means of a juggler metaphor; examining situations where systems thinking offers useful understanding and opportunities for change. Part III identifies the main factors that constrain the uptake of systems practice and makes the case for innovation in practice by means of systemic inquiry, systemic action research and systemic intervention. The book concludes with Part IV, which critically examines how systems practice is, or might be, utilised at different levels from the personal to the societal. The development of our capabilities to think and act systemically is an urgent priority and Systems Practice aims to show how to do systems thinking and translate that thinking into praxis (theory informed practical action) which will be welcomed by those managing in situations of complexity and uncertainty across all domains of professional and personal concern.

Author : Arne Collen
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 1574 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 1412835518

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Systemic Change Through Praxis and Inquiry by Arne Collen Pdf

This work examines the confluence of praxiology, pragmatics, and systematics in the study of systemic change through human inquiry, particularly small group activities, human organizations, and globalizing trends. It covers core concepts indigenous to organizational life.

Author : Christine Oliver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429918476

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Reflexive Inquiry by Christine Oliver Pdf

This book sets out to explain how the reflexive inquiry model can be adapted to research so that consultants can continue to evaluate their work and learn from the process. It draws out some implications of the principles, arguments, models, and tools presented for undertaking research.

Author : Mohamed Nemiche,Mohammad Essaaidi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319461649

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Advances in Complex Societal, Environmental and Engineered Systems by Mohamed Nemiche,Mohammad Essaaidi Pdf

This book addresses recent technological progress that has led to an increased complexity in many natural and artificial systems. The resulting complexity research due to the emergence of new properties and spatio-temporal interactions among a large number of system elements - and between the system and its environment - is the primary focus of this text. This volume is divided into three parts: Part one focuses on societal and ecological systems, Part two deals with approaches for understanding, modeling, predicting and mastering socio-technical systems, and Part three includes real-life examples. Each chapter has its own special features; it is a self-contained contribution of distinguished experts working on different fields of science and technology relevant to the study of complex systems. Advances in Complex Systems of Contemporary Reality: Societal, Environmental and Engineered Systems will provide postgraduate students, researchers and managers with qualitative and quantitative methods for handling the many features of complex contemporary reality.

Author : Ockie Bosch,Robert Y. Cavana
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9783038427896

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Systems Education for a Sustainable Planet by Ockie Bosch,Robert Y. Cavana Pdf

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Systems Education for a Sustainable Planet" that was published in Systems

Author : Sergio Barile,Raul Espejo,Igor Perko,Marialuisa Saviano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429944611

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Cybernetics and Systems by Sergio Barile,Raul Espejo,Igor Perko,Marialuisa Saviano Pdf

Society is now facing challenges for which the traditional management toolbox is increasingly inadequate. Well-grounded theoretical frameworks, such as systems thinking and cybernetics, offer general level interpretation schemes and models that are capable of supporting understanding of complex phenomena and are not impacted by the passage of time. This book serves the knowledge society to address the complexity of decision making and problem solving in the 21st century with contributions from systems and cybernetics. A multi-disciplinary approach has been adopted to support diversity and to develop inter- and trans-disciplinary knowledge within the shared thematic of problem solving and decision making in the 21st century. Its conceptual thread is cyber/systemic thinking, and its realisation is supported by a wide network of scientists on the basis of a highly participative agenda. The book provides a platform of knowledge sharing and conceptual frameworks developed with multi-disciplinary perspectives, which are useful to better understand the fast changing scenario and the complexity of problem solving in the present time.

Author : Lisa M. Given
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1073 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412941631

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The Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods: A-L ; Vol. 2, M-Z Index by Lisa M. Given Pdf

An encyclopedia about various methods of qualitative research.

Author : Burns, Danny
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847422750

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Systemic action research by Burns, Danny Pdf

Systemic Action Research works with real social and organisational issues to uncover their complex dynamics, often revealing unexpected opportunities. This book shows how this process can be integrated, in any context, to the process of social and organisational development and change. The book explains how systemic thinking works and how Systemic Action Research can be embedded into organisational structures and processes to catalyse sustainable change and critical local interventions. Practically written, it details how to design a programme and build it directly into policy and practice development, extending the possibilities of action research beyond the 'individual' and the 'group' to work across whole organisations, multi agency governance arenas, and networks. The book is filled with illustrative stories and pictures which bring the concepts to life enabling the reader to develop a clear picture of how to put it into practice.Systemic Action Research programmes are now being adopted in Government and local governance contexts as well as in national and international NGOs. This book will be invaluable for experienced action researchers as well as social science and social policy researchers who will benefit from an approach to qualitative research which is participative, grounded in practice and allows systemic understandings of complex problems. Policy makers and practitioners will appreciate a process which generates meaningful evidence about the dynamics of change and offers a tangible system for continuously integrating that learning into both formal and informal decision-making.

Author : Oreszczyn, Sue,Lane, Andy
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447335313

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Mapping environmental sustainability by Oreszczyn, Sue,Lane, Andy Pdf

While there is growing interest in participatory research to address issues around environmental sustainability, the focus of analysis tends to be on the results or products of the research rather than the processes involved. Addressing this gap, the authors draw on their experience of specific mapping techniques, based on different systemic concepts and theories, that have helped facilitate, explore and capture different understandings of the relationships, perspectives and boundaries within situations involving environmental sustainability. The development of visual mapping techniques is explained and practical case studies describe their application in environmental sustainability projects, from working with farmers and their networks to using visual mapping with indigenous communities and managing coastal environments. Each case study provides a ‘real world’ project example from researchers with extensive experience of using these techniques to research different aspects of environmental sustainability over several decades.

Author : David Coghlan,Mary Brydon-Miller
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781473907324

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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research by David Coghlan,Mary Brydon-Miller Pdf

Action research is a term used to describe a family of related approaches that integrate theory and action with a goal of addressing important organizational, community, and social issues together with those who experience them. It focuses on the creation of areas for collaborative learning and the design, enactment and evaluation of liberating actions through combining action and research, reflection and action in an ongoing cycle of cogenerative knowledge. While the roots of these methodologies go back to the 1940s, there has been a dramatic increase in research output and adoption in university curricula over the past decade. This is now an area of high popularity among academics and researchers from various fields—especially business and organization studies, education, health care, nursing, development studies, and social and community work. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research brings together the many strands of action research and addresses the interplay between these disciplines by presenting a state-of-the-art overview and comprehensive breakdown of the key tenets and methods of action research as well as detailing the work of key theorists and contributors to action research. To watch a video of editor David Coghlan discuss the importance of this major reference work as well as the implications, challenges and successes of editing The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research, click here: http://youtu.be/P6YqCdZCZCs

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309452960

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Communities in Action by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States Pdf

In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.