In my own practice, i realise that these fragments are typically sparked by observation (of the world around me, within these disparate communities and spaces that i am lucky enough to inhabit), and connection (the practice of the generalist, to move between domains, to carry ideas as one does so). It’s about creating a basket of ideas that can be shaken around. Sharing fragments of thought is about building bricks, but without the need to understand what the whole building will look like. I typically find that new ideas emerge and are articulated for the first time in my ‘performance’ spaces, followed by a frantic attempt to capture them in writing after the event.Īs i look back, to analyse my practice, i can see that there are some specific traits of #WorkingOutLoud that we can define: sharing fragments, developing vocabulary, layering interpretation. And arguably current research and community events represent a live and dynamic third reflective space – but a very forward focussed one. Under this approach, i usually describe the blog as my ‘first reflective space’, which means it is not very reflective at all! Books represent a second reflective space: a more considered and analytic narrative. Or to put it another way, i say that it’s wrong before you do, so i feel less constrained to share incomplete and fractured work. It’s a somewhat vulnerable approach, but also a defensive one: by openly stating that work will be fragile, will be wrong, it’s possible to mitigate some of the consequence of it actually being wrong. A methodology whereby one shares the journey as well as the output. I did not formally define or share # WorkingOutLoud as i understand it as a practice until later in my writing, but the idea was clear to me from the start. In a real sense, this work represented my first meta-analysis and reflection upon my primary output on the blog, and hence my first fully rounded experience and demonstration of the (then emergent) methodology of # WorkingOutLoud.īefore i dive into the book itself, to consider how those ideas have stood up over time, i just want to explore that context and notion of #WorkingOutLoud, and why this publication was a transitional step. Today i am revisiting the book ‘ Exploring the World of Social Learning’, which was published in 2012, right at the start of my writing career! This book was couched as a ‘book from the blog’ and is essentially a reprint of fifty or so blog posts, wrapped in a broader context for each post. I have broken this reflective process into three streams: ‘ My Published Works’, ‘ Communities and Experiences’, and ‘ Influential Books’. As part of my own professional development i am carrying out a critical review of certain of my published works, as well as a broader reflection on the ideas that have influenced and shaped my thinking.
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