Hi Fred and Don,
Many thanks for all your work on the Johari Window, Fred. I have been told
that William Howell is a name associated with the Awareness/Competence
framework and I have a couple of references to check out on it.
In a message dated 4/27/98 5:43:03 AM EST, Fred writes:
"A library search by professional librarians turned up several pages of
articles making use of the scheme about which David Hurst originally
inquired. The oldest of them date back to the 1970s. So far, all
make use of the scheme but, except for one, none cite anything remotely
resembling a seminal source. I did find one citation suggesting a source
and I hope to have that in hand this week. More than...
"In the meantime, as I asserted earlier, there is no connection between
Joseph Luft's Johari Window and the growth continuum marked by unconscious
competence at the outset and unconscious competence at the end, with
conscious uncompetence and conscious incompetence marketing the interim
stages."
Don, I agree with you completely, it is a spiral of ongoing development. I
am not sure that one can map the process very satisfactorily onto a high
level framework like entropy production etc, Terms such as "emergent
learning" and "digestive learning" seem to be descriptive rather than
explanatory; that is they describe outcomes of processes which remain
unexplained. It's hard work getting to the roots of the processes in
business organizations!
Don, writes:
>Rather than "finally to UC Competence", consider what you've described as
>one round of a spiral, where you've attained a degree of competence and
>now begin a new round ending in a higher degree.
Looking at At's framework through this lens, I hypothesize: the movement
from UC-I to C-I is accomplished through entropy production, pushing one
away from equilibrium to the unstable state of awareness of one's
incompetence. At that point, a bifurcation occurs, resulting in an
immergent dropping back to the original state (or maybe lower?), or moving
one to C-C (emergent learning). From there, digestive learning brings one
to the UC-C state.>>
Regards,
David Hurst
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