Category Archives: Praxis

Rethinking Critical Pedagogy and the Gramscian and Freirean Legacies

Read Read also  Categories Freire – Gramsci – Critical pedagogy Critical pedagogy problematizes the relationship between education and politics, between sociopolitical relations and pedagogical practices, between the reproduction of dependent hierarchies of power and privilege in the domain of everyday … Continue reading

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From Organizational Learning to Practice-Based Knowing

Read Different streams of research, traversing the boundaries of scientific discipline, are converging on an understanding (and a methodology) based on a pragmatic theory of knowing that reframes traditional research into organizational learning. Practice is the figure of discourse that … Continue reading

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Bridging Epistemologies – The Generative Dance between Organizational Knowledge and Organizational Knowing

Read Much current work on organizational knowledge, intellectual capital, knowledge-creating organizations, knowledge work, and the like rests on a single, traditional understanding of the nature of knowledge. We call this understanding the “epistemology of possession,” since it treats knowledge as … Continue reading

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Knowing in Practice – Enacting a Collective Capability in Distributed Organizing

Read In this paper, I outline a perspective on knowing in practice which highlights the essential role of human action in knowing how to get things done in complex organizational work. The perspective suggests that knowing is not a static … Continue reading

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Change in the Field – Changing the Field – Bourdieu and the Methodological Practice of Educational Research

Read Bourdieu‘s social theory offers a way of understanding some of the most important features of the field of educational research, while also providing educational researchers with a rich conceptual apparatus for their practice. This article addresses both of these … Continue reading

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Vygotskian collaborative project of social transformation – History, politics, and practice in knowledge construction

Read Vygotsky’s theory has recently evolved as an innovative approach to many fundamental issues in psychology and education. Ironically, however, his legacy is mostly portrayed from the standpoint of outdated – cognitivist and individualist – views on science and history, … Continue reading

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Knowledge and praxis of networks as a political project

Read   Modern day society is increasingly described as an  extensive web of networks, but as such, it is often perceived and experienced as elusive. In light of this paralyzing description, this article aims at highlighting the potentially political dimension … Continue reading

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