”Learning, then, is about making sense of the world through an existing frame. Development is about a change in the frame it self.” – Nancy Dixon, pg. 169
I really identified with Dixon’s Developing Managers for Organizational Learning chapter this week. Maybe it’s because I am still relatively new in the management field in my organization, [...]
Days later, I am still thinking about our poor clasmate (a.k.a. K-Spon) and his unfortunate blog episode. While I’ve always been a little wary of putting myself out there in cyberspace, I’m still quite shocked to learn that there are companies or people out there who have software capable of tracking down a webpage that mentions a [...]
Last class as we were discussing Dixon’s meaning structures, I had a lot of random thought racing through my head. They may come across as rather disconnected, but I am going to share them here…
As we looked at Dixson’s diagram of meaning structures – private, accessible, collective – I began to think of our classroom [...]
Last Thursday’s class really gave me some mental food to chew on. (No, I’m not using that analogy just because I’m pregnant and hungry…) I mean, there was some real meat in there to think about, particularly surrounding the discussion of the themes in Dixon’s book.
The first theme – the idea that learning and work [...]
