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Chocolade maken van de samenleving
Afgelopen juli was ik op een conferentie voor promovendi in humanities en social sciences te Aberdeen. Ik had de organisatie namelijk geschreven dat ze met “Impact or impasse, postgraduate research beyond academia” volgens mij een interessant onderwerp te pakken hadden en dat ik graag de presentaties van de keynote speakers na afloop wilde ontvangen. Prompt … Lees meer
MEET – Meet my Street Magazine
Twee jaar onderzoek naar jongeren, creativiteit en media, en openbare ruimte, verpakt in glossy magazine MEET – Meet my Street Magazine.
Microstructures: spaces for participatory innovation
Microstructures are networks that aim to solve persistent social problems in rural or urban areas. These are transdisciplinary networks of inhabitants, entrepreneurs, professionals, and academics who bind their forces to realize an ambition they share in the area concerned. They require small investments in governance which we expect to result in social entrepreneurship and self … Lees meer
Metaphor in Action in an Academic Battlefield
How to explain an academic community that theorises about knowledge intensive organisations whilst creating practical knowledge about living in this community that negates these theories? I constructed a learning history of an academic business school and found some answers. Confronting the collective narrative of the organisation about itself with analyses and recommendations written for others, … Lees meer
Nijmeegse lente in onderzoek
“When April with its sweet showers has pierced the drought of March to the root, and bathed every vein of earth with that liquid by whose power the flowers are engendered; when the zephyr, too, with its dulcet breath, has breathed life into the tender new shoots in every corpse and on every heath, and … Lees meer
Thuiskomen in je eigen taal
Och waas ik maar beej mooder thoès gebleve… In mijn Limburgse oren klinkt de versie van Huub Stapel vele malen beter dan die van Johnny Hoes, die de Venlose tekst van Frans Boermans vertaalde naar een Nederlandse kaskraker. Het is nog maar zo kort geleden, de reden voor de vertraging van deze nieuwsbrief: carnaval. Want … Lees meer
Narrating around
The learning history is designed to describe the coming about of best practices, with their reproduction in mind. In this paper, I discuss the implications of this instrument and present a modified version. I use a so-called discursive learning history to zoom in on the interaction between a convergent, official, organisational narrative on the one … Lees meer