Learning Alliances
Description: Howard Silverman\’s blog on innovation and transformation: theories of change, search for affordances, practices of engagement, ways of learning.
Back in 2015 and ’16, Peter Tuddenham sparked a variety of conversations about systems literacy.
In “ Governing in the Anthropocene ,” Ray Ison and Monica Shelley set out an argument for how a systems literacy might assist one in developing one’s systemic sensibilities into practical capabilities. They wrote:
The good news, based on over 40 years of experience in offering systems education at The Open University (UK), is that despite our culture and institutions (norms, or rules of the ‘human game’) a certain percentage of us retain a systemic sensibility—something which we may have been born with, or which developed in childhood. What is missing, however, are the contexts for a systemic sensibility to flourish, to be recovered and/or fostered. Investment in building systems literacy and then system thinking in
Learning Alliances