Valerie Brown: Collective social learning - a theoretical foundation for Web 2
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1 Collective social learning Foundation for Web 2 and beyond? Valerie A. Brown Local Sustainability Project Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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http://www.lkl.ac.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=218Collective social learning - a theoretical foundation for Web 2 Print Friday 19 June 2009, 12:00pm - 2:00pmEmeritus Professor Valerie A. Brown AO, BSc MEd PhD *Location: LKL Auditorium Whether we are now at Web 2, Web 3 or Web 8, we can agree that after Web 1 came a surge of interoperability, user-centered design and mass collaboration. Web-based communities, social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, and blogs, add up to a new cultural force. There has been little consideration of the changes this integrative cultural force brings to the ruling fragmentation of knowledge. This seminar will identify the hierarchy of knowledge structures in the construction of Western knowledge and suggest collective social learning as a synthesising framework consistent with the needs of Web 2 and above.* Director, Local Sustainability Project, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University. Valerie works collaboratively with communities in Australia, Asia, Canada and Europe on whole-of-community change. Her latest books include "Social learning and environmental management: towards a sustainable future" 2005; "Leonardo's vision: a guide to collective learning and action" 2008 and "Tackling wicked problems: using the transdisciplinary imagination" In press, 2009.
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Collective social learning
Foundation for Web 2 and beyond?
Valerie A. Brown
Local Sustainability Project
Fenner School of Environment and Society,
Australian National University
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1. Web 1 …..Web 2……..?
2. Culture change
3. Five voices
4. Multiple knowledges
5. Collective social learning
The argument:
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Web 1 creates links:• across space
• across time
• across cultures
• across languages
• across organisations
• among people
• among communities
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Web 2, 3, 4, - - - - - - - • User-centred design
• Wide social networking
• Open interoperability
• Flat organisation
• Mass collaboration
= a new cultural force
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Individuals +
Communities +
Specialists +
Organisations +
Shared focus
Cultural change involves:
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Local community
SpecialistsCouncil
Local Sustainability Project 1996-2006
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Multiple knowledges in practiceMultiple knowledges in practice
2. COMMUNITY2. COMMUNITY
3. SPECIALIST3. SPECIALIST
4. ORGANISATION4. ORGANISATION
5. HOLISTIC5. HOLISTIC
Shared beliefs, events
Health, Sociology, Ecology, Economics…
Agendas, strategies
Focus, goal
1. INDIVIDUAL1. INDIVIDUAL Personal experience
KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURE TEST FOR TRUTH
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Multiple knowledges in theory Multiple knowledges in theory
LOCAL COMMUNITYLOCAL COMMUNITY
SPECIALISTSPECIALIST
ORGANISATIONORGANISATION
HOLISTIC FOCUSHOLISTIC FOCUS
Geertz, W. Berry, Putnam
Kuhn, Ravetz, Gould
Foucault, Senge, R. Saul
INDIVIDUALINDIVIDUAL Polanyi, Satre, Buber
KNOWLEDGES AUTHORS
De Chardin, Berlin, T. Berry
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Western knowledge as a hierarchyWestern knowledge as a hierarchy
3. LOCAL3. LOCAL
1. SPECIALIST1. SPECIALIST
2. ORGANISATIONAL2. ORGANISATIONAL
5. HOLISTIC FOCUS5. HOLISTIC FOCUS
Shared beliefs, memories Shared beliefs, memories
Health, Education, Sociology, Engineering… Health, Education, Sociology, Engineering…
Agendas, strategiesAgendas, strategies
Collective ideal Collective ideal
4. INDIVIDUAL4. INDIVIDUAL Personal experiencePersonal experience
KNOWLEDGES SOURCE OF EVIDENCE
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Mutual rejection:Mutual rejection:
• As a citizen of the community• As an expert in your field• As a strategist in your political environment• As yourself in thinking and doing
LOCALLOCAL
RESEARCHRESEARCH
ORGANISATIONORGANISATION
HOLISTIC FOCUSHOLISTIC FOCUS
Powerless
Fragmented
Self-serving
Too hard
INDIVIDUAL Biased
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Multiple knowledges in Malaysia Multiple knowledges in Malaysia
LOCALLOCAL
SPECIALISTSPECIALIST
ORGANISATIONORGANISATION
HOLISTIC FOCUSHOLISTIC FOCUS
No action: People resigned to risks
Universities clinicians identify new strain from pigs Health Dept calls it En.J 9 (from mosquitos)/ blocks emails
INDIVIDUALINDIVIDUAL Encephalitis epidemic KNOWLEDGES EVENTS
Fear for future livelihood/cost/loss of face
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Information access in MalaysiaInformation access in Malaysia
• As a citizen of the community• As an expert in your field• As a strategist in your political environment• As yourself in thinking and doing
LOCALLOCAL
SPECIALISTS SPECIALISTS
ORGANISATIONORGANISATION
HOLISTICHOLISTIC
University, clinicianspublish new strain
Government sticks to story
Community under-ground email
INDIVIDUALINDIVIDUAL Digital divide
Strong community
Different
-language
- vision
- know-ledge culture
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What sort of order?
One right answer?
Lowest common denomin-ator?
Consensus?
Majority vote?
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Local knowledge Local knowledge
Holistic knowledge Holistic knowledge
Individual knowledge Individual knowledge
Collective knowledge as a nested set Collective knowledge as a nested set
A collaborative system
Specialist knowledgeSpecialist knowledge
Organisational knowledgeOrganisational knowledge
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For collective learning
How do you address the multiple knowledges in your own designs?
Who wins?Who loses?
Whose truth prevails?
How do you address the multiple knowledges in your own designs?
Who wins?Who loses?
Whose truth prevails?
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Jig-saw puzzle:Pre-determined picture
Reproduces what is
Requires:
Careful observation
Good memory
Accuracy
Perseverance
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A collage
requires:
- reflection - review - creativity
Brings something new into the world
Accepts ambiguity and uncertainty
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Ideas
FactsIdeals
Actions
Kolb et al 1984, 1995
Focus
question
Experiential learning cycle (Kolb et al, 1984)
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3. Design3. Design1.Develop1.Develop
Collective Learning spiral2. Describe2. Describe
4. Do4. Do
Ideas What could be?
Facts What is ?
Ideals What should be?
Actions What can be?
Kolb et al 1984, 1995
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2. Describe2. Describe
3. Design3. Design1.Develop1.Develop
4. Do4. Do
What could be?
Collective knowledge
What is? Multiple
knowledges
What should be?
Informed citizens
Collective Social Learning:
What can be?
Collective action
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1. Web 1 …..Web 2……..?
2. Culture change
3. Five voices
4. Multiple knowledges
5. Collective social learning
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