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Item Details
| Title:
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CONVERSATIONAL LEARNING
AN EXPERIENTIAL APPROACH TO KNOWLEDGE CREATION |
| By: |
David A. Kolb, Ann C. Baker, Patricia J. Jensen |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£74.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1567204988 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781567204988 |
| Publisher: |
ABC-CLIO |
| Pub. date: |
30 July, 2002 |
| Pages: |
248 |
| Description: |
Despite different belief systems and other divisive problems, people can still learn from each other and in doing so create new knowledge. This text aims to show how conversations can not only facilitate learning within organizations, but actually create the subject of learning: knowledge itself. |
| Synopsis: |
Despite conflicting belief systems and other divisive problems, people can still learn from each other to create new knowledge. The medium is conversation. This challenging new book asserts that business conversations can be seen as social experiences through which we discover new ways of seeing the world, destroying the barriers between us. When this occurs, new knowledge can emerge or be developed. How can people learn from their differences, rather than be divided by them? One way is by creating conversational spaces-areas where conversation occurs. The authors show how such spaces are created, maintained, and enhanced, and how they are used to transform different interpretations and perspectives into new common understandings. With illustrations and case studies, the authors demonstrate the practical value of conversational learning in diverse organizational settings. Emphasis is shifted from techniques that are essentially insensitive to different contexts, attitudes, and beliefs, focusing instead on a theory of learning that is more social and interactive.This remarkable new source of explanatory theory validates an intensely pragmatic way to help organizations get people talking to one another, thereby advancing the well being of the organizations and those within them. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Quorum Books,U.S. |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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