In his discussion of an ‘idealised’ Systems Thinking Practitioner, Ison (2017, pp.192-195) makes the case for an underlying emotion of inquiry and curiousity and engaging in what it refers to as small ‘r’ research. He explains this as “willed and … Continue reading
This is a refreshed version of the post I made on 9 January 2024. Some content is the same, but I would like to think I have made the overall argument stronger Weller’s (2014) account of the history of … Continue reading
Recently, my husband had his first bout of COVID-19. He’d avoided it for a long time but finally got caught out! Each day, when I asked him how he was feeling he said things like – “I know they said … Continue reading
Weller’s (2014) account of the history of open learning aligns it with the free and open source software movement. However, it concerns me that this connection is overlooked when phrases like “open technologies” (Weller, 2014, p.94), “open tools” (Cronin, 2017, … Continue reading
I’ve just realised an oversight in relation to the end of my last post (Learning in the open). It’s a bit of a paraphrase, but I concluded that blogging was an activity that I primarily do ‘for me’. In that … Continue reading
For someone who studies and works at a university with ‘open’ in the name, I’ve kind of always assumed that I was therefore involved in open education. But this is only the case if you interpret ‘open’ in relation to … Continue reading
Note: today is 20 July 2023 and I just found this post in my ‘drafts’ folder. It was written 22 August 2014! I’ve read it through and it seems that the only thing I didn’t get round to doing was … Continue reading
I feel as if I have 101 blog titles going around in my head at the moment. It’s getting hard to know which one to focus on. But I guess starting somewhere is better than not starting at all. … Continue reading
In Systems Thinking in Practice, we tend to refer to the ‘object’ of our inquiries as ‘situations’. There are variations on this term such as problematic situations, situations of interest or situations of concern which I have discussed in previous … Continue reading
Recently I have been thinking a lot about the relationship between systems thinking in practice and research. This isn’t a new stream of thought, I have been mulling it over for a long time and in some ways lots of … Continue reading