Learning and Forgetting in Development Ngos: Insights from Organisational Theory

ISBN-13: 9781138089808 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 178 str.

Tiina Kontinen

Opis

Tackling Amnesia in Development NGOs draws on a range of theoretical approaches and rich empirical evidence to explore how development organizations learn, or fail to learn, from experience. Despite the overwhelming discourses of NGOs as learning organizations, little is known about the phenomenon of learning within NGOs and surprisingly little learning actually seems to take place in practice. This book uses detailed empirical data on the everyday experiences and accounts of development practitioners to ask how organizational learning can be used in practice to help to counteract development amnesia. This book will be an essential guide for students, scholars and development practitioners.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Categorising learning in development: Towards organisational institutionalism  3. Learning as a search for a shared meaning for empowerment  4. Learning as change in organisational epistemology  5. Unlearning, forgetting and ignorance  6. Learning as legitimation and synchronisation  7. Conclusions

O autorze

Tiina Kontinen is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.