At-Risk Practices That No Longer Work

Kent C. Myers
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Chapter 3 in Reflexive Practice, 2010, pp 41-64 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract A primary characteristic of reflexive practice is facility in reframing—the ability to deal with multiple, inconsistent frames simultaneously, creatively, and contingently. Some of these frames are in the shadows; they may be potential or emergent, driven by either external forces or intentional change. The fluidity and uncertainty of reflexive practice makes it difficult, confusing, and maddeningly irresolute at times, but that is the price of facing turbulence squarely, to not assume that conditions are less turbulent and therefore favorable to a different stance that is cognitively or culturally more attractive, convenient, or familiar. To assume otherwise—that there is some other underlying, constant, and knowable reality in our times—is less and less plausible. Nor does society appear to be headed toward any particular regime of stability, based on what we have seen in the past several decades.

Keywords: Credit Default Swap; Enterprise Architecture; Rational Practitioner; Turbulent Environment; Longer Work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230112629_3

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