Suchergebnisse

Preliminary Material -- The case for synthesis -- Utopia revisited -- Parallel worlds -- Collective decisions -- Thinking for oneself -- Community engagement -- Commonsense inquiry -- Integrative management -- A holistic focus -- A Just, secure and sustainable future -- Bibliography -- List of boxes -- Index -- Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education Series.

Pressures for transformational change have become a regular feature of most fields of human endeavour. Master-thinkers and visionaries alike have reframed existing divisions as connecting relationships, bringing together as dynamic systems the supposed opposites of parts and wholes, stability and change, individuals and society, and rational and creative thinking. This reframing of opposites as interconnected wholes has led to realisation of the power of a collective mind.This book offers ways and means of creating the synergies that are crucial in influencing a desired transformational change

Pressures for transformational change have become a regular feature of most fields of human endeavour. Master-thinkers and visionaries alike have reframed existing divisions as connecting relationships, bringing together as dynamic systems the supposed opposites of parts and wholes, stability and change, individuals and society, and rational and creative thinking. This reframing of opposites as interconnected wholes has led to realisation of the power of a collective mind. This book offers ways and means of creating the synergies that are crucial in influencing a desired transformati.

This step by step guide is for those seeking to undertake a transformational change process based on strong collaboration among diverse interests. Guiding transformational change goes beyond small changes to an existing system. It leads to lasting change in the system itself. The collective learning process achieves a systems change through a continuous learning spiral based on open learning among diverse interests. The sixteen case studies cover guided transformational change in personal learning, team-building, community development, organizational change, monitoring and evaluation, and cros.

Thinking for oneself : outside the square / Valerie A. Brown -- Collective learning : joining the dots / Valerie A. Brown, Judith A. Lambert & John A. Harris -- Multiple dimensions of mind : parts and wholes / Valerie A. Brown -- Celebrating difference : on not losing one's mind / David Waltner-Toews & Ellen Wall -- Multiple minds : the more we are together / John A. Harris -- Multiple voices : so say all of us / Valerie A. Brown & John A. Harris -- Post-normal reconciliation : reframing the agenda / Kerry A. Arabena -- Sophia in the anthropocene : towards an environmental ethic / Dianne E. Dibley -- The organic, the mechanical and the emergent mind / Charles J. Massy -- Escaping the "circular conundrum" : cropping and learning in Northern Australia / Kathryn E. Andrews -- Epidemiological regeneration in a complex world / David Waltner-Toews -- Landscape management and landscape regeneration in Australia / Richard M. Thackway & Mark W. Gardner -- Transcoherence : labels and wicked problems / Craig A. Ashurst -- Re-imagining person-centred practice in a person-first organisation / Julia H. Wolfson -- Engaging creatively with tension in collaborative research / Elizabeth A Clarke, Rebecca Freeth, and Dena Fam -- Life and change for a regenerative farmer / David S. Marsh -- That's how the light gets in / David Waltner-Toews -- Knowing our own minds / David Waltner-Teows, Valerie A. Brown & John A. Harris.

Radical changes in the biosphere and human interaction with the environment are increasingly impacting on the health of populations across the world. Diseases are crossing the species barrier, and spreading rapidly through globalised transport systems. From new patterns of cancer to the threat of global pandemics, it is imperative that public health practitioners acknowledge the interdependence between the sustainability of the environment and the sustainability of the human species* Why are issues of global and local sustainability of increasing impotance to the public's health?* Why do issue