Thinking About Learning
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Will collect any sources help me reflect and rethink about learning and education in the emerging networked communities.
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Social Poetics as a Relational Practice - creating Resourceful CommunitiesWe began with a focus on fleeting events, on subtleties, on the unique, novel, only 'once occurrent' events that 'strike' us, to which we cannot not respond. It is this emphasis that moves us away from what in the past has been called theory, toward what (to be distinctive) we have called the ...
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Articulating a Practice from within the Practice itself - establishing Formative Dialogues by the use of a Social PoeticsIn this, the first of two interlinked articles, we describe a set of methods - that we call a “social poetics” - for use by a group of practitioners in coming to a more articulate grasp of their own practices, thus to develop them. Crucially influenced by Wittgenstein's (1953) claims - that ...
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Resonances from within the Practice – Social Poetics in a Mentorship ProgramIn this, the second of two interlinked articles, we describe an experimental mentoring program conducted in a major medical school in the Northeast of the United States. In it, primary care physicians mentored medical students in the course of conducting their daily practices. All involved were ...
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Constructing resourceful or mutually enabling Communities - putting a new (dialogical) practice into our practicesThe whole idea of being a "participant," of being an involved actor as distinct from being an "external observer" standing over against or apart from what one is learning about or researching into, is crucial in everything that follows below. It leads us to a focus on actual practices and ...
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Network Action ResearchCurrent literature stresses the significance of networks and network theory in both social as well as technical domains. Not only is the role of networked technologies (such as mobile phones and the internet) in everyday life being scrutinized, but network theory is re-shaping an understanding ...
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3Evolution of research on collaborative learningABSTRACT: "For many years, theories of collaborative learning tended to focus on how individuals function in a group. More recently, the focus has shifted so that the group itself has become the unit of analysis. In terms of empirical research, the initial goal was to establish whether and under ...Giorgio Bertini added 3 months ago
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3How to Present While People are TwitteringA couple of weeks ago I started to facilitate participatory planning sessions as an open space using twitter, and has been a great social learning and change experience, with the full audience organized in several round tables for topic conversations and a single twitter voice to tweet the ...Giorgio Bertini added 5 months ago
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3Sociodrama and Structured Improvisation: Methodology for Education, Training, Healing, and ChangeThe power of Kolb, Freire and Boal for learning and change.Giorgio Bertini added 6 months ago
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3Canada’s Hidden Deficit: The Social Cost of Low Literacy SkillsThis is an important issue everywhere, with an urgent need for comprehensive policies, with national, regional and local coverage.Giorgio Bertini added 7 months ago
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