Collective learning for transformational change : a guide to collaborative action / / Valerie A. Brown and Judith A. Lambert

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910970476003321
• Autore: Brown Valerie A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Routledge, 2013; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-136-25471-4; 0-203-10567-2; 1-283-84151-7; 1-136-25472-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): LambertJudith A
• Disciplina: 303.4
• Soggetti: Social change; Organizational change; Organizational learning
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Collective Learning for Transformational Change: A guide to collaborative action; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Boxes; Sally and Richard; Foreword; Acknowledgements; PART 1. INSTRUCTIONS: Collective Learning for Transformational Change; 1 The theory: Collective social learning; 2 The practice: Party time; 3 Following the collective learning spiral; 4 Step 1 Setting the scene: Who to invite?; 5 Step 2 Collective ideals: What should be?; 6 Step 3 Collective facts: What is?; 7 Step 4 Collective ideas: What could be?; 8 Step 5 Collective action: What can be?; 9 Step 6 Following on; 10 Guiding transformational changePART 2. CASE STUDIES: Celebrations of Collective Learning; 11 Holding the party; 12 Managing whole-of-community change: Bon voyage; 13 Introducing new ideas: A cocktail party; 14 Initiating long-term change: Opening night; 15 Changing problem communities: Housewarming; 16 Achieving collective thinking: Coming of age; 17 Monitoring and evaluation: Street party; 18 Teamwork: Bring a plate; 19 Working from the Guidebook: Going it alone; 20 Summing up; PART 3. RESOURCES: A-Z of Collective ; Learning; Introduction: Who? Why? What? When?; Adaptive management; AlliancingBalancing the players; Collaboration; Conflict resolution; Consultation; Conversation; Dialogue; Event management; Forecasting; Gatekeepers; Hosting; Imagining; Joining in; Knowledge brokering; Learning styles; Multiple knowledges; Negotiation; Open Space Technology; Pattern languages; Problem-solving games; Questioning; Risk and risk-taking; Synergy and synthesis; Team-building; Transdisciplinarity; Understanding; Values mapping; Visioning; Wicked problems; Xing the minefield; Yarning; Zany ideas; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The drive for change has informed human endeavour throughout history. From fields to factories to offices, people have always asked how to make things better. This innovative book offers a step by step guide for recognising the need for transformational change and kick-starting a course of implementation that leads to the creation of a productive, just and sustainable future for the given community. Drawing on over 300 cases of transformational change planned-for and supported through the process of collective learning, the book shows how a collective learning model based on open learning a