Acting to understand and understanding to act. Issue 9 (3rd November 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Glanville, Ranulph
• Editors: Glanville, Ranulph; Griffiths, David; Baron, Philip
• Is Part Of: Kybernetes. Volume 43:Issue 9/10(2014)
• Page Start: 1293
• Page End: 1300
• Publication Date: 2014-11-03
• Subjects: Practice -- Learning -- Understanding -- Acting -- Circularity -- Constancy; Cybernetics -- Periodicals; Systems engineering -- Periodicals; 003.505
• DOI: 10.1108/K-07-2014-0147
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0368-492X

Abstract

Abstract : Purpose: – To establish the essential centrality of a circular relationship between acting and understanding, and a role learning plays in this circularity, with special reference to Aristotle's phronesis and sophia. The purpose of this paper is to establish a position. Design/methodology/approach: – The argument is made through critical, cybernetic analysis and argument. Findings: – The argument reconceptualises key relationships in the approach to understanding the world, and in education. Research limitations/implications: – Research implications are not explored: the argument attempts to lay groundwork for other and later work. Originality/value: – The argument establishes a cybernetic circular causality to replace the currently preferred linear causality.