Making meaning: Knowledge creation, learning and documentation
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The document discusses the role of networks in facilitating innovation and knowledge creation within agricultural contexts, emphasizing the importance of various dimensions such as biophysical, socio-cultural, and economic factors. It outlines methods of knowledge transfer, including single-loop and double-loop learning, and highlights the significance of stakeholder engagement and co-creation of knowledge for successful outcomes. Furthermore, it addresses the challenges faced by stakeholders and the importance of a structured reflection process to adapt and improve practices.
Making meaning: Knowledge creation, learning and documentation
- 1. Making meaning: Knowledge creation, learning and documentation Julia Ekong Humidtropics capacity development workshop, Nairobi, 29 April – 2 May 2014 http://humidtropics.cgiar.org/
- 2. Case Study Questions • Which dimensions of a complex agricultural problem (biophysical, technological, socio-cultural, economic, institutional, political) do they address? • Who are the key actors/stakeholders, what are their roles in the platform and how did they interact? • Are there multiple levels of interaction, (local, district, national, international) did this contributed to the success of the platform? • What are key factors/interventions that have promoted innovation? • What have been the key changes over time (dynamics of change)? • What challenges faced by stakeholders, and how these were (or were not) overcome? • How were knowledge flows and learning enabled?
- 4. Advantage of working through networks/platforms • Networks evolve in response to the complex realities in which they operate in • Free flowing exchange of information, experience and knowledge among participants with a shared commitment
- 5. Innovation • Meaningful Innovation is fundamentally about changing institutional/social relationships and developing more effective ways of learning (Innovation Africa) • Innovation is not about diffusion of knowledge, but about co-creation of knowledge at the point of action” (Rukuni, 2013)
- 6. Facilitating Innovation “The art of facilitating the transfer of knowledge, skills and/or attitude to people who will use what they learn to change/improve their behavior/ performance.”
- 8. Knowledge is… responsive capacity accepted of value “uncontested”* * Note knowledge is rarely uncontested
- 10. Positivism • ‘‘hard’’ science, sets up hypotheses and tests them with repeatable and quantifiable experiments. • ‘Hard’ scientists trained to believe that the world they experience has an independent reality which they are discovering in their experiments. • knowledge is independent of context and separate from the knower, hence technologies built on scientific principles will work independent from the people who use them. • Technology that works under a certain set of agro- ecological and economic conditions can be transferred to a similar area, so long as the technology hardware (its physical manifestation) and software (instructions on how to replicate and use it) are faithfully reproduced. • The social characteristics of the people adopting, and the way the technology is introduced, do not really matter. • Knowledge is independent of context and therefore can be passively received ‘as is’ and ‘mapped on’ to a learner’s brain
- 11. Constructivism • Learning process is an active one where the learner ‘constructs’ knowledge by fitting new information into his or her existing ways of seeing the world. • This construction process is social, part of understanding new phenomena is undertaken as a group through negotiation. • Technical innovation is a learning process and hence is also a social process . • The role of a platform facilitator is to foster a ‘social construction’ process. • The legitimisation of new knowledge is tied to its use, how well it serves peoples’ purposes in the real world.
- 12. Making Meaning of the Change process
- 16. Single Loop Learning • Single-loop learning takes place when thinking and action are modified in accordance with the differences between expected outcomes and obtained outcomes. • It assumes that problems and their remedies are close to each other. • In single-loop learning small changes are made to improve existing practices, procedures or rules. • How can we do things better? without necessarily challenging their underlying beliefs and assumptions.
- 17. Double Loop Learning • Double-loop learning takes place when assumptions or policies behind initial expectations are questioned and modified. • Central question: ‘Are we doing the right things?’, and in so doing, they gain insights into why a solution works or does not work. • This shift requires an understanding of context or of points of view. • In this way, platforms learn how to learn.
- 18. FAN Approach Four Frameworks
- 21. Questions on Stakeholders • Who needs to be there at this stage of the process? • Who is there? • What is their motivation • What knowledge and expertise do they bring to the platform? • Who is not there, who we would like to have on board? • Why are they not there? • What steps need to be undertaken to get them on board?
- 22. Circle of Coherence Co-creation of Knowledge Similarities Differences WE ME exchangedialogue challengestructure fleeing fightingfreezing conforming
- 23. The Circle of Coherence Focus on Healthy interaction and providing space for knowledge creation and learning •Does the network generate energy or not? •What pattern requires most attention? •What was done to restore connection, or raise the level of coherence? •What interventions are appropriate?
- 25. Group Work the role of platform facilitators in Co-Creation of Knowledge • As platform facilitators how have you or would you enable the co- creation of knowledge? • How do you/who capture(s) the knowledge? • How do you or will you use this knowledge? Report back on how you will implement this at action site level