This list presents the key findings of a recent action research (AR) learned study on the development of curricula in a military college. I hope you will find some reasons to see you involved in AR.
First The four types of knowledge: experience, presentation, propositional, practical. I see them now more explicitly in the classroom, I am planning and construction at the university. I evaluate applications in knowledge on the basis of this framework. I am looking for ways to integrate all four in all subjects. I introduced the idea in our program, faculty development, because it told a synergy with our philosophy of education.
Second Unproductive exercise in communication: a useful set of techniques to address a formal and systematic problems. This is a difficult area for me as a communicator in general, to the time and effort and rework that comes so easily to me to spend. But we know that in such cases, you get a good price by using your strengths, not only to correct deficiencies. Made me aware of my communication methods and frameworks.
Third The profile of the development of leadership qualities: fascinating and useful model for the participation of organizations Torbert large-scale transformation through self-awareness and a sense of what is possible to predict and calibrate the friction points. I shall not be capable of it yet, but I can see how powerful they may be within my college, because it is a scaffolding around the organization of the work we already do with the transformation of individual leaders.
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