Floor Basten

Independent scholar, cat addict, tattoo lover

Through the looking glass. A narrative of non change

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Since decades, outsiders criticize The Ivory Tower for its seclusion. Today, insiders proclaim a crisis within the tower itself. Staff publicly criticize conditions for research and teaching. Here I reflect as on my experiences as an action researcher within academia and address the question of espoused theories and theories-in-use in academic practice. My starting point … Lees meer

De kracht van het agendaloze gesprek

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Hallo. Ja, u daar. Degene die over de schouder van de geadresseerde van deze nieuwsbrief mee leest. Ik weet dat u er bent. Dat heeft diegene me namelijk verteld. Ik richt me nooit rechtstreeks tot u, want ik ken alleen de geadresseerde. Maar bij deze: welkom in de CO Times lezerskring! Goed om te horen … Lees meer

Microstructures: spaces for participatory innovation

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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

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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

Narrating around

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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

Vraaggericht werken door narratief onderzoek

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Dit artikel gaat in op de mogelijkheden van narratief onderzoek in het opsporen van vraagpatronen van gezinnen, kinderen, wijkbewoners met betrekking tot de kwaliteit van het opgroeiklimaat in hun wijk. Een vraagpatroon is een set van samenhangende vragen en behoeften die burgers uiten naar aanleiding van een levensgebeurtenis, een concrete ervaring of binnen de actuele … Lees meer

The double-tongued city

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In city branding, it is common to start with the question: who do we want to have in our city? In my paper I will present some of the narrative strategies Amsterdam uses to both include and exclude and to legitimise these actions. The question I will address is: what are the narrative mechanisms in … Lees meer