Systems Practice: How to Act in a Climate Change World is a Reader that showshow to do systems thinking and to translate thinking into action (i.e praxis). The Open University has been teaching Systems for nearly forty years and although it has developed an effective approach to teaching students, there is still a major deficiency in the market about the doing of systems. This book aims to fill this gap and meet an important need by building the case for a systems praxiology. Praxiology is that branch of knowledge dealing with practical activity and human conduct. One of the main findings to emerge from the activities of the EPSRC-funded Systems Practice for Managing Complexity (SPMC) Network was the idea that systems practice is highly valued by those who do it and know about it but most use it as a silent practice. A consequence of this is that many people have not heard of it, they do not know how to talk about it andthey also do not know what is involved in doing it, i.e there is little demand-pull despite the wide-spread and increasing recognition that there is a needfor thinking and acting systemically. Systems Practice will be relevant to praxis under the rubrics of leadership, management complexity, joined-up thinking, and action, strategic risk management, corporate social responsibility and climate change adaptation. In contrast to competing titles in this field, thisbook will focus on the history of the practitioner (as a biological and social person) and their unfolding relationship with complex situations – it will not be methodology led. Systems Practice, Systemic Inquiry and Action Research is likely to be unique among recent systems books in that it places the practitioner (and the constraints and possibilities of the practitioners own knowingand doing) at the centre of a generic model of doing systems. The book is built on a rigorous theoretical and research base, but is also highly practical in that it can trigger new understandings and practices in the reader about their own situation and how they can build their own practice. Aims to meet an important need by building the case for a systems praxiology. INDICE: PART I Thinking and acting differently.- Introduction and rationale.- PART II Systems practice as juggling.- Introducing systems practice.- Making choices about situations and systems.- The juggler – a way to understand systems practice.- Juggling the B-ball – being a systems practitioner.- Jugglingthe E-ball – engaging with situations.- Juggling the C-ball – contextualizingsystems approaches.- Juggling the M-ball – managing overall performance in a situation.- PART III Systemic practices.- Four settings that constrain systemspractice.- Systemic inquiry.- Systemic action research.- Systemic intervention.- PART IV Valuing systems practice in a climate-change world.- Valuing systems practice
- ISBN: 978-1-84996-124-0
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 324
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés