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dc.contributor.authorThunberg, Odd Arne
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-22T08:17:33Z
dc.date.available2012-08-22T08:17:33Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractAbstract In a comparative analysis of municipal and banking organisations, this paper examines how dialogs, inspired by the World Cafe approach, can contribute to developing reflective and organisational learning. Participatory and appreciative action and reflection (PAAR) helps people to understand their circumstances with a view to changing them for the better. This creates opportunities to develop employee communication and shared understanding. Continuous support for a dialogic process of this sort needs tolerance. The world cafe can have a long-term and sustainable effect. The basis for the comparative analysis was dialog seminars and an analysis of cafe dialogs. It is important to gain full support for cafe dialogs from an organisation's senior management before expanding them to the whole organisation. Reflective learning is a more complex phenomenon than formerly assumed because the conscious or unconscious participation of senior management can significantly influence reflective learning processes. If increased integrity and mutual respect are attained through dialog it is worth asking how this can also be further developed in different organisations.en
dc.descriptionThis article is part of Odd Arne Thunberg's doctoral thesis. Available in Munin at <a href=http://hdl.handle.net/10037/3336>http://hdl.handle.net/10037/3336</a>en
dc.identifier.citationReflective Practice 12(2011) nr. 3 s. 319-333en
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 806631
dc.identifier.doidoi: 10.1080/14623943.2011.571864
dc.identifier.issn1462-3943
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/4383
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_4101
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherTaylor&Francisen
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Education: 280::Other disciplines within education: 289en
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Pedagogiske fag: 280::Andre pedagogiske fag: 289en
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Sociology: 220en
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Sosiologi: 220en
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Psychology: 260::Developmental psychology: 265en
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Psykologi: 260::Utviklingspsykologi: 265en
dc.titleWorld cafes and dialog seminars as processes for reflective learning in organisationsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
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dc.typePeer revieweden


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