Theory we already know about

Please add links to papers and books that might be helpful, with a little summary about why.

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Permalink Reply by Juanita Brown on February 21, 2014 at 7:24pm

Hi everyone,

You all might want to take a look at my doctoral dissertation which has lots of theory references from the fields of consciousness, strategic planning, living systems etc. around why this "stuff" works!

Here's the dissertation attached.

Attachments:

JB Dissertation.pdf, 896 KB

Permalink Reply by Chris Corrigan on February 21, 2014 at 8:24pm

Gold mine! Thanks Juanita!

Permalink Reply by Chris Corrigan on February 21, 2014 at 8:26pm

Here is a good outline of Bob Marshak and Gervase Bush's theory of dialogic organization development. I'm currently finishing up a chapter on containers for a forthcoming book on this stuff.

http://www.gervasebushe.ca/DODTOP.pdf

Permalink Reply by Juanita Brown on February 21, 2014 at 8:35pm

Thanks Chris...and I'm happy to talk with you in more depth about all of this, anytime!

With best wishes,

juanita

Chris Corrigan said:

Gold mine! Thanks Juanita!

Permalink Reply by Rosa Zubizarreta on November 28, 2015 at 12:06pm

Hey Chris... responding to an older post of yours on this thread, where you wrote something about it being "interesting to create theory backward from practice"...

I've been reading Donald Schön recently.. (The Reflective Practitioner)... his take on it, is that it's only backward, from the perspective of "technical rationality", in which theory supposedly comes first.... yet in actual practice, we are often engaging in "practical experiments" designed to test our "theories in action"... as a result of which, practice often develops beyond the existing theories.

And, it is still very useful of course, to do the work of linking our discoveries in practice, with the existing academic conversations...

Permalink Reply by Ria Baeck on November 29, 2015 at 10:09am