Sensemaking processes and Weickarious learning. Issue 1 (February 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Colville, Ian; Pye, Annie; Brown, Andrew D.
• Is Part Of: Management learning. Volume 47:Issue 1(2016:Feb.)
• Page Start: 3
• Page End: 13
• Publication Date: 2016-02
• Subjects: Sensemaking -- simplexity -- Weickarious learning -- learning -- process -- poetics; Industrial management -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Executives -- Training of -- Periodicals; Organizational learning -- Periodicals; Knowledge management -- Periodicals; 302.35
• DOI: 10.1177/1350507615616542
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1461-7307

Abstract

The processes by which people learn to make sense and make sense to learn is of both theoretical and practical importance. In a world suffuse with dynamic complexity in which unusual, unexpected and unprecedented events occur on a persistent basis, this challenges the relevance of the sensemaking perspective. We put forward a rebalanced model of sensemaking to make the sensable once again sensible, and open up the sensemaking perspective to understand learning as a process that is more than mere interpretation and attends to embodied sensemaking through adopting a thorough-going process approach. This way, we extend both the grasp and the reach of the sensemaking perspective to make sense of learning and to learn to make sense.