This book aims to rethink systemic intervention to enhance its relevance for supporting social change in the 21st century. It offers a new systems philosophy and methodology, focusing upon the fundamental importance of exploring value and boundary judgements as part of the intervention process. It includes four detailed examples of the practice of systemic intervention.
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"[...]I would strongly recommend this impressive, coherent, and principled book. It could broaden the community psychologists' horizons and suggest some solutions to the kinds of dilemmas and problems that can bog us down so much." (Mark Burton, Manchester Learning Disability Partnership, Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 13:4, July-August 2003)
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This book has three major aims: to formulate a new approach to some vital philosophical issues that have bedevilled theoreticians in scientific and other academic communities for many years; to generate a methodology1 for intervention (intervention being purposeful action by an agent to create change) that is consistent with this philosophy; and to provide examples from my own practice to illustrate how the methodology can be translated into action. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
critical systems heuristics, knowledge generating system, boundary judgements, interventionist learning, own intervention practice, boundary critique, quantitative applied science, interpretive systemology, community operational research, second wave systems, critical systems thinking, total systems intervention, professional intervener, critical systems perspective, wave methodologies, systemic intervention, idealised design, operational research communities, polemical employment, virtual paradigm, pluralist methodology, confidential space, human relations tradition, methodological pluralism, assumption surfacing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
System of Systems Methodologies, Children's Society, Interactive Planning, Socio-Technical Systems Thinking, Custody Project, Alan Boyd, Co-operative Inquiry, Education Department, Spencer Brown, Viable System Model, Strategic Choice, Cognitive Mapping, Mandy Brown, Health Authority, Home Office, Participatory Action Research, Alison Savage, Community Operational Research, Gregory Bateson, Section One, Global Environmental Change Programme, Police Stations, University of Hull, Advisory Group, Jackson System Development New!
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This book has three major aims: to formulate a new approach to some vital philosophical issues that have bedevilled theoreticians in scientific and other academic communities for many years; to generate a methodology1 for intervention (intervention being purposeful action by an agent to create change) that is consistent with this philosophy; and to provide examples from my own practice to illustrate how the methodology can be translated into action. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
critical systems heuristics, knowledge generating system, boundary judgements, interventionist learning, own intervention practice, boundary critique, quantitative applied science, interpretive systemology, community operational research, second wave systems, critical systems thinking, total systems intervention, professional intervener, critical systems perspective, wave methodologies, systemic intervention, idealised design, operational research communities, polemical employment, virtual paradigm, pluralist methodology, confidential space, human relations tradition, methodological pluralism, assumption surfacing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
System of Systems Methodologies, Children's Society, Interactive Planning, Socio-Technical Systems Thinking, Custody Project, Alan Boyd, Co-operative Inquiry, Education Department, Spencer Brown, Viable System Model, Strategic Choice, Cognitive Mapping, Mandy Brown, Health Authority, Home Office, Participatory Action Research, Alison Savage, Community Operational Research, Gregory Bateson, Section One, Global Environmental Change Programme, Police Stations, University of Hull, Advisory Group, Jackson System Development New!
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- Critical Systems Thinking by Robert L. Flood on 11 pages
- Participatory Action Research (SAGE Focus Editions) by William Foote Whyte on 5 pages
- Older People by Hazel Heath in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Systems Design by Isim University in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- New Directions in Management Science by Michael C. Jackson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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