Replying to LO29690 --
Dear Organlearners,
Andrew Campbell < ACampnona@aol.com > quotes:
>Burgoyne, J. G. (1995): "Learning from experience: From
>individual discovery to meta-dialogue via the evolution of
>transitional myths", Personnel Review Vol. 24, No. 6: 61-72
>-- Learning from experience assumes particular importance
>at times of fundamental transition because inherited learning
>becomes irrelevant or misleading. The current fundamental
>transition is from work for the production of knowledge to
>work for the production of identify/meaning. The accompanying
>transition in terms of learning from experience is from individual
>discovery of personal and environmental realities to collective
>meaning making. The contemporary concern with dialogue as
>a core process of collective meaning making in organizational
>learning is discussed, and a process of meta-dialogue is
>proposed as an approach to facilitating learning from experience
>in a way appropriate to the times. Meta-dialogue involves sharing
>and reaching an understanding of the ways in which beliefs under
>discussion in dialogue can be believed to be true or useful.
>[Abstract from BPO 21/9/96]
Greetings dear Andrew,
We are now deep into the festive season and families and friends get
together for a barbeque or another form of feasting. A few evenings ago we
held a barbeque at our home. I was sitting aside and observing everyone
closely. They were doing exactly that -- sharing their experiences through
dialogue to to deepen their understanding. It has been a wonderful night.
What a pity that the day to day activities of our organisations cannot be
the same!
>To be continued, in another time.
I am looking forward to it.
With care and best wishes
--At de Lange <amdelange@postino.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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