Contents:
Volume 7 No. 2-3, 2000 All files are in pdf format, for which you may need to download the free Acrobat reader from Adobe Systems Søren Brier: Foreword Marcelo Pakman: Thematic Foreword: Reflective Practices: The Legacy Of Donald Schön Full Text Jeanne Bamberger: Unanswered Questions Abstract Pauline P.L. Sung-Chan: Learning from an Action Experiment: Putting Schön’s Reciprocal-reflection Theory into Practice Abstract Shoshana Keiny: Learning as Knowledge Construction Within a Community of Learners. An attribution to Don Schön Abstract Frederick Steier and Wit Ostrenko: Taking Cybernetics Seriously at a Science Center: Reflection-In-Interaction and Second Order Organizational Learning Abstract Dan Bar-On: The Hamburg TRT Seminar: Storytelling in the service of peace building Abstract Martin Rein: Primary and Secondary Reframing Abstract Marcelo Pakman: Disciplinary Knowledge, Postmodernism And Globalization: A Call for Donald Schön’s “Reflective Turn” for the Mental Health Professions Abstract Phillip Guddemi:
Autopoiesis, Semeiosis, and Co-Coupling:
Columns
Poetry
ASC Pages
The artist of
this issue is Mille Søndergaard
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by Soren Brier The present issue is a double issue of which the main part is dedicated to a tribute to Don Schön produced on the initiative of and with Marcelo Pakman as a guest editor. On the next pages you will find his introduction to Schön’s work and heritage, discussing its significance and usefulness in various areas and also an introduction to the authors and their articles. These articles both look back and into the main features of Schön’s work and point towards new uses and developments in various areas. I hope you will find the results of this collaboration with Marcelo Pakman as rewarding as I have. In addition to the theme we bring Philip Guddemi’s groundbreaking article on structural coupling and semiosis, an exploration of cybersemiotics. Guddemi has independently worked his way into this area from anthropology, inspired by Gregory Bateson’s teaching. The ASC column in this double issue is written by Professor Humberto Maturana. He writes about how to understand the function of mathematics if it is not considered to be about the functioning of an objective reality. Thus he is further adding to and explaining his original autopoietic viewpoint. In his regular column, Ranulph Glanville writes about several positions of the present significance of cybernetics and the future of cybernetic thinking in the post-industrial society — especially if cyberneticians would begin to act what they teach. Finally we are proud to welcome Professor Winfred Nöth from Wiss. Zentrum f. Kulturforschung, Universität Kassel, Germany to the editorial board. He is the author of Handbuch der Semiotik (J.B. Metzler), the second edition of which will soon be reviewed in this journal. It will later appear in English just as the first edition did, which already carries quite a reputation. One of the important aspects of this handbook is that it also gives some space to the analysis of information science and cybernetics and compares it to semiotics of different observations. As such it is part of the bridge between cybernetics and semiotics that the present editor finds so important for the development of a new foundation of information, communication and cognitive science as well as transformation into a new cybersemiotics of signification. The Handbuch is the first to acknowledge Cybersemiotics as a new area of research. The artist of this issue is Mille Søndergaard and the poet is Lawren Bale.
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