November 25, 2010
by peter.taylor
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In the late 1980s Roberto Mangabeira Unger laid out a “constructive social theory,” which centered on “institutional and imaginative frameworks of social life [that] supply the basis on which people define and reconcile interests, identify, and solve problems.” He went … Continue reading
October 8, 2010
by peter.taylor
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Group processes not only need skillful and effective facilitators; they also need participants or collaborators who are skilled and effective in contributing to the desired outcomes. To develop skills and dispositions of collaboration requires researchers (and researchers-in-training) to make opportunities … Continue reading
September 13, 2010
by peter.taylor
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Consensus decision-making means learning about and addressing concerns of all before moving ahead. (This is quite different from the [mis]use of the term to mean a vote was not taken [which may have been because the minority chose not to … Continue reading
September 10, 2010
by peter.taylor
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During the spring and summer of 2000 I participated in four innovative, interdisciplinary workshops. A review of the workshops led me to dig deeper into how workshops work when they do. I assembled a list of heuristics that I include … Continue reading
September 5, 2010
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“…the challenge of bringing into interaction not only a wider range of researchers, but a wider range of social agents, and to the challenge of keeping them working through differences and tensions until plans and practices are developed in which … Continue reading
September 2, 2010
by peter.taylor
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Since the 1990s collaboration has become a dominant concern in environmental planning and management (Margerum 2008), but the need to organize collaborative environmental research can be traced back at least as far as the tropical rainforest ecosystem projects led by … Continue reading