Giorgio Bertini
Research Professor on society, culture, art, cognition, critical thinking, intelligence, creativity, neuroscience, autopoiesis, self-organization, complexity, systems, networks, rhizomes, leadership, sustainability, thinkers, futures ++
Networks
Learning Change Project
Categories
5000 Posts in this Blog
- Follow Learning Change on WordPress.com
Paul Gauguin
Category Archives: Agency
Occupy the future: Growing young peoples’ power and potential
Imagine an education system that prepared young people to make and shape the future. What would it look like? How different would it be? Education that prepares children for obedience, compliance and rote learning produces a population of observers, rather … Continue reading
Posted in Agency, Change agents, Education
Tagged agency, Change agents, education
Comments Off on Occupy the future: Growing young peoples’ power and potential
Engaging with the World: Agency, Institutions, Historical Formations
This title reflects the general theme of the 2010 IACR annual conference that was held in Padova, Italy, the aim of which was to provide a fresh view on some cultural and structural changes involving Western societies after the world … Continue reading
Structure, Culture and Agency
Professor Margaret Archer is a leading critical realist and major contemporary social theorist. This edited collection seeks to celebrate the scope and accomplishments of her work, distilling her theoretical and empirical contributions into four sections which capture the essence and … Continue reading
Citizen Participation, Agency and Voice
Citizen participation, by now one of the main topics on the institutional agenda in many European countries, involves different fields of public action, mostly on a local level – social inclusion, urban renewal, development, the environment, health/social services, etc. It … Continue reading
Posted in Agency, Citizen participation, Participation, Voice
Tagged agency, citizen participation, participation, voice
Leave a comment
Relational Agency: Relational Sociology, Agency and Interaction
This article explores how the concept of agency in social theory changes when it is conceptualized as a relational rather than an individual phenomenon. It begins with a critique of the structure/agency debate, particularly of how this emerges in the … Continue reading
Posted in Agency, Interaction, Relational, Relational agency, Relational sociology, Social relations
Tagged agency, interaction, relational, relational agency, relational sociology, social relations
Comments Off on Relational Agency: Relational Sociology, Agency and Interaction
How does it Feel to Act Together?
This paper on the phenomenology of joint agency proposes a foray into a little-explored territory at the intersection of two very active domains of research: joint action and sense of agency. I explore two ways in which our experience of … Continue reading
Posted in Agency, Collective action, Individual, Joint action
Tagged agency, collective action, individual, joint action
Comments Off on How does it Feel to Act Together?
On the Role of Social Interaction in Individual Agency
Is an individual agent constitutive of or constituted by its social interactions? This question is typically not asked in the cognitive sciences, so strong is the consensus that only individual agents have constitutive efficacy. In this article, we challenge this … Continue reading
Posted in Agency, Individual, Interaction, Social
Tagged agency, individual, interaction, social
Comments Off on On the Role of Social Interaction in Individual Agency
Learning Change 