Everything you wanted to ask about systems thinking vis a vis action research but were too afraid to ask
The workshop offers a conversation about how we use systems thinking or thinking systemically in action research with a panel of action research systems practice theorists. Full introduction, including list of optional preparatory reading...more
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Saturday 4th September 2010 2pm-5pm Augustine Centre 2 Minona Street Hawthorn VIC 3122 Getting there +613 9819 2844 http://www.augustine.org.au REGISTER NOW |
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Dr Yoland Wadsworth has an international reputation for quality innovative theory in research methodology, publishing, consultancy & collaborative inquiry facilitation, and is the author of Australia's best-selling textbooks on research and evaluation methods - Do It Yourself Social Research and Everyday Evaluation on the Run (Allen & Unwin 1997). Yoland is an Adjunct Professor with the Centre for Applied Social Research at RMIT University, Melbourne. Yoland's papers include:
‘Is it safe to talk about systems again yet?-Self organising processes for complex living systems and the dynamics of human inquiry' Systemic Practice and Action Research, Springer, (2008a), NY, 21(2):153-170;
‘Systemic human relations in dynamic equilibrium' Systemic Practice and Action Research, (2008b), Springer, NY, 21(1):15-34.
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Dr Danny Burns is the author of Systemic Action Research (2007) Policy Press, University of Bristol, UK, and Professor of Organisational Learning, SOLAR, University of Bristol, UK. |
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Dr John Barton is a Melbourne-based strategy consultant and Adjunct Reader, School of Integrative Systems, University of Queensland. Recent papers include: Barton, Stephens and Haslett ‘Action Research: Its history and relationship to the scientific method', Systemic Practice and Action Research, Dec. 2009. Barton, Stephens and Haslett ‘Action Research: its foundations in open systems thinking and relationship to the scientific method', Systemic Practice and Action Research, Dec. 2009. Barton ‘Analysis, Synthesis, Systems Thinking and the Scientific Method: rediscovering the importance of open systems', Systems Research and the Behavioural Sciences, 2007, 14: 143 - 155. |
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