Individual and collective practice
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Once a month we invite member of CPsquare to talk about their work: their job or current projects and the communities of practice or social learning issues that are currently coming up for them. We launched the practice in January, 2010 and it has been a fascinating, informal and open-ended way for us to get to understand more deeply what kind of work people do . People talk about what’s difficult, challenging or rewarding about their work. They are invited to reflect on their experience, where they would like to go, and what opportunities or constraints they see. We’ve heard from Sue Wolff in higher education, Jack Merklein from Xerox Business Services, Joitske Hulsebosch, an independent consultant from The Netherlands, Lauren Klein, a consultant from the US, and from Tony Carr, who is in higher education in South Africa.
We have just finished spending almost 2 weeks with John Parboosingh, Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary, Adjunct Faculty at the School of Nursing, Mount Royal University, and a community learning consultant in the healthcare area. Here are a few of the items he shared:
- Community Of Facilitators For Education and Exchange http://www.coffee-ab.ca - in Calgary, Alberta that he
- His use of Voicethreads as a community tool http://voicethread.com/#u32616.b1040623.i5547297 and http://voicethread.com/?#u32616.b1098165.i5880544
- A comment in the British Medical Journal (1999;318) arguing that “I don’t know” are the three most important words in education http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/318/7193/
