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Organising changes. A development perspective. ‘traditional’ changework themes. approaches to change problem oriented top-down designed ‘big bang’ systems metaphors - mechanistic & organic relations: cause – effect. ‘traditional’ change work. Meta-theoretical assumptions:
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Organising changes A development perspective
‘traditional’ changework themes • approaches to change • problem oriented • top-down • designed • ‘big bang’ • systems metaphors - mechanistic & organic • relations: cause – effect
‘traditional’ change work • Meta-theoretical assumptions: • the rational agent • empirical knowledge of • one real world • language - represents reality • experts = those better able to represent how things really are
Implications • one representation of reality, one expertise... dominates • definitions of fact & value • in relation to • design, • control • evaluation & • definitions of progress
Some post-modern themes De-centering representation
emphasising fragmentation & multiplicity
scepticism regarding all grand narratives
de-centering epistemology & truth & centering “language games” & “forms of life
Relating as a process of constructing forms of life
Relational processes • relating is always ongoing • relatingeg colors, words, actions, artifacts… to other colors, words,actions, images, artifacts… • all treated (equally) • as texts in text-con-text relation • (re)constructing local realities & relations
relational possibilities • mono-logical, hierarchical, Subject-Object (S-O) • we know what…but how! • problems of “implementation” • multi-logical, different & equal (Equo) • focus on the process • of articulating & appreciating multiplicity
recently change(d) work • centers • dialogue within & between • multiple ‘forms of life’ • learning as a local, community-based affair • qualities of relating • appreciative and future oriented • multi-centered • emergent/developmental • all kinds of action
consultant’s orienting principles • participation • grounded in this post-moderndiscourse of relational processes • ‘orientation’- not techniques • open & reflexive • emphasis shifts from ‘power over’ (S-O) • to ‘power to’ (Equo) & • transformative change i.e., from ‘within’