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How can we help each other to make knowledge and social change within "unruly" (heterogeneous, distributed) ecological complexities? Peter Taylor Univ. Massachusetts Boston Critical & Creative Thinking Science, Technology & Values Education for Sustainability
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How can we help each other to make knowledge and social change within "unruly" (heterogeneous, distributed) ecological complexities? Peter Taylor Univ. Massachusetts Boston Critical & Creative Thinking Science, Technology & Values Education for Sustainability peter.taylor@umb.edu www.faculty.umb.edu/pjt
Intersecting Processes cut across scales involve heterogeneous components develop over time
causality & agency: distributed, not localized multiple points of engagement to modify the course of development joint & partial responsibility
interpreter specificity -> reflexivity
vibrating agency open questions
Opening Up/Out => C3. challenge of contributing to a culture of participatory restructuring of the distributed conditions of knowledge-making and social change
"flexible engagement" • challenge for researchers • in any knowledge-making situation • = • connect quickly with others • who are almost ready to foster participatory processes • & • through the experience such processes provide their participants • enhance the capacity of others to do likewise