scholarly journals People and practices in organizational learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-88
Author(s):  
Anders Buch
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Legitimate Peripheral Participation ◽  
Organizational Settings ◽  
Life Trajectories ◽  
Event Ontology ◽  
Point Of Departure

This article discusses the role of practices and people’s participation in practices in conceptual accounts of organizing, learning, and organizational learning. Specifically, the discussion takes its point of departure in Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger’s account of learning as legitimate peripheral participation in practices, and Theodore Schatzki’s practice theory account of organizing and organizations. Both accounts center on the role of practices as people come to know, and as changes occur in social activity and organizational settings. However, the two accounts are based on different ontologies. Borrowing the terminology of John Dewey and Arthur Bentley, Lave and Wenger instantiate a substantivist, and ultimately individualist, ontology, whereas Schatzki’s event ontology is relational. It is argued that both ontologies have merits of their own, but the article seeks to integrate the two approaches by utilizing Ole Dreier’s notion of the life trajectories of persons across social practices. In this perspective, organizational learning shows when people’s life trajectories are affected by the bundles of social practices they engage with, and when the bundles of social practices are transformed by the way people enact the practices.

scholarly journals VOLUNTEERING AS A MANIFESTATION OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE’S SOCIAL ACTIVITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 52-70
Author(s):  
Маrina N. КICHEROVA ◽  
Viktoriia М. SURNINA ◽  
Veronika М. SURNINA
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Volunteer Activity ◽  
Foreign Experience

The article presents the results of an organized study and spontaneous volunteer activities of young people, reveals the specificity of social practices and the peculiarities of “detachment” motivation and “spontaneous” volunteering. Volunteer activity of young people is seen as a manifestation of social activity, including individual / personal and group / collective forms. The empirical study was carried out using the methodological technique of triangulation — a combination of quantitative and qualitative strategies for collecting and analyzing data: a questionnaire survey of young volunteers (N = 131) and in-depth semi-formalized interviews (18 informants). Based on the data analysis results, the main motives of volunteers, key areas of volunteering, changes related to the pandemic and the role of volunteers in this period, the prospects for the development of detachment volunteering are revealed. The advantages and limitations of organized (detachment) and spontaneous volunteering, barriers in the development of young people’s social activity are revealed. The Russian and foreign experience of youth involvement in volunteering is presented, an analysis of trends in the development of youth volunteering, institutional conditions and limitations manifested in the practice of volunteering is presented. The study showed that the key advantages of squad volunteering are the presence of an organizer coordinating the work, the ability to do more good deeds, the presence of like-minded people, access to events closed to other volunteers, the opportunity to become a leader of the volunteer squad. The main barriers in the implementation of volunteer activities are associated with the registration procedure for applications for events, lack of resources, excessive formalization. As a recommendation based on the results of the study, in order to support the positive social activity of young people, it was proposed to create resource centers that would allow coordinating the work of volunteers and ensuring continuity in volunteering.

scholarly journals Improvisation and learning processes in organizations: a metaphor applying the Brazilian rhythm choro

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (59) ◽  
pp. 681-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Flach ◽  
Claudia Simone Antonello
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Practice Culture

Whereas improvisation has been discussed in international literature mainly from the metaphor of jazz and theater, this essay discusses how the phenomenon of improvisation can contribute to new interpretations of Organizational Learning. We use the metaphor of improvisation in the Brazilian rhythm ‘Choro’ in order to understand the process of improvisation in organizations. Thus, the main objective of the study is to discuss and analyze the role of improvisation in the Organizational Learning process. In the final considerations, we conclude that improvisation plays a significant role in the processes of Organizational Learning. Thus, we argue that the socio-cultural approach in Organizational Learning can help to understand the process of improvisation, with the role of communities of practice, culture, social practices and sensemaking in this phenomenon.

scholarly journals Open spaces in public libraries: from social practices to cultural values

Bibliosphere ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 77-82
Author(s):  
G. V. Varganova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Wide Range

The article considers the practice of creating open spaces in public libraries of foreign countries. Open space is a social phenomenon with a value load. The author emphasizes the role of open spaces in integrating social practices of the local community members, forming the territorial population identity, common values and cultural meanings. The paper highlights that it is necessary to use a wide range of traditional and virtual technologies in open spaces, as well as to strengthen cooperation with other social organizations. The role of open spaces is to socialize different demographic groups living at the same territory, to create conditions for their successful adaptation to the dynamically changing world and the socio-cultural potential reproduction. Open spaces create new opportunities for solving one of the most difficult task: they stimulate social activity of the local community members and form their cultural values. Thus, open spaces contribute to organizing interaction between different social groups living at the territory and strengthening the society sustainable structure.

Crossing the Pomerium

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Koortbojian
Keyword(s):  
Social Practices ◽  
Civic Life ◽  
Public Monuments ◽  
Religion And Law ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Military ◽  
The City

The ancient Romans famously distinguished between civic life in Rome and military matters outside the city—a division marked by the pomerium, an abstract religious and legal boundary that was central to the myth of the city's foundation. This book explores, by means of images and texts, how the Romans used social practices and public monuments to assert their capital's distinction from its growing empire, to delimit the proper realms of religion and law from those of war and conquest, and to establish and disseminate so many fundamental Roman institutions across three centuries of imperial rule. The book probes such topics as the appearance in the city of Romans in armor, whether in representation or in life, the role of religious rites on the battlefield, and the military image of Constantine on the arch built in his name. Throughout, the book reveals how, in these instances and others, the ancient ideology of crossing the pomerium reflects the efforts of Romans not only to live up to the ideals they had inherited, but also to reconceive their past and to validate contemporary practices during a time when Rome enjoyed growing dominance in the Mediterranean world. The book explores a problem faced by generations of Romans—how to leave and return to hallowed city ground in the course of building an empire.

Empowerment in an ecovillage: Unveiling the role of power relations in social practices

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Luiz Guilherme Mafle Ferreira Duarte ◽  
Marlyne Sahakian ◽  
João Leite Ferreira Neto
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Practices

Pearls From Bones: Relics, Chortens, Tertons and the Signs of Saintly Death in Tibet

Numen ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Martin
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Tibetan Buddhist ◽  
Devotional Practice ◽  
Cultural Pattern ◽  
Other Substances ◽  
Critical Links ◽  
Point Of Departure

AbstractAlthough there has been much work, in recent years, on the sacrum of Christianity, and some important studies have appeared on Buddhist relic cults and related facets of Buddhism, so far very little has been written on Tibetan Buddhist relics. This paper, while offering some material for a historical perspective, mainly seeks to find a larger cultural pattern for understanding the interrelationships of a complex of factors active in Tibetan religious culture. Beginning with problems of relic-related terms and classifications, we then suggest a new assessment of the role of the Terton ('treasure revealer'). Then we discuss 'miracles' in Tibet, and the intersection of categories of 'signs of saintly death' and relics. Much of the remaining pages are devoted to those items that fall within both categories, specifically the 'pearls' that emerge miraculously from saintly remains and images that appear in bodily or other substances connected with cremations. After looking at a number of testimonials on these miraculous relics, we examine the possibility that these items might be 'deceitfully manufactured', looking at a few Tibetan polemical writings which raise this possibility. In the conclusion, we suggest that there are some critical links between three spheres of Tibetan religiosity: 1. sacrum which are not relics, 2. relics, and 3. signs of sainthood. Finally, we recommend an approach to religious studies that takes its point of departure in actual practices, and particularly the objects associated with popular devotional practice.

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