Tim on Etienne (Part III: Design for Learning)
This post constitutes the second of three endeavors in preparing myself to lecture the Knowledge Management 2009 course at the University of Amsterdam. Again, this part is based on Wenger’s (1998) seminal work on communities of practice. Whereas the previous post dealt with Learning in Practice in extensive detail (and the role of Communities of [...]
Tim on Etienne (Part I: Learning in Practice)
This post constitutes the first delicate steps in preparing myself to teach the Knowledge Management 2009 course at the University of Amsterdam. The parts are based on Wenger’s (1998) seminal work on communities of practice.
Introduction
“Perhaps more than learning itself, it is our conception of learning that needs urgent attention” (p.9). Wenger argues that our ‘modern’ [...]
Curious Case of Sociality Revisited
Monday last week, a subset of the Maatschap was invited (including me, Bolke de Bruin and Mark Nijssen) to present at the ICT Societeit Zoetermeer, a platform where entrepreneurs with an interest in new technologies, especially social software in this case, can meet. There we did a recap of the presentation done by Wim Bouman [...]
Having a realistic attitude towards information, knowledge and change management
Currently, I am struggling my way through Giddens” rewarding, but dense, Magnus Opum The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration (1986). And to ensure some ‘’stickiness”, pondering is definitively needed.
Lecturing at the University of Amsterdam, I became enthralled by the stories about his focus on practices, floating between the extremes of [...]
