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E-communications and relational Constructionism: Distributed Action, Distributed Leadership and Ecological Possibilities
Social construction as process: some new possibilities for research and development
Here we outline one variant of social constructionism - one that emphasises
social ontologys as constructed in ongoing co-ordinations of act and supplement. We
stress that such processes may be constructed both in written and spoken words, in
non-verbal actions and artefacts. Relational processes often construct persons and
worlds in either/or relations, however âboth/andâ also is possible. We explore some
ânewâ both/and possibilities in various areas of practice showing, for example, that
research: can be viewed as construction; does not have to strive to enact the standard
view of science, and; instead might construct inclusive, multilogical, and heterarchical
relations constructing "power to" go on in new ways. Whilst social constructionist
arguments do not demand any particular methods or relations, we suggest that there
are good reasons why approaches of the sort described might be of value, might be
more ecological, in todays âfastâ, postcolonial, multi-cultural worlds
Discourses of relations and relational
This is a story of relations and relating. There is no wolf, no Little Red
Riding Hood; there are no bears, nor little piggies. It is not a heroic tale of
how one particular discourse proves its superiority by vanquishing other
discourses; it is not a tale told from behind the wings, the modernist authorâs
pen, or the realist painterâs brush. This story, like all stories, is told from a
particular point of view or standpoint â one that I shall try to make
explicit â one that I shall call âcritical relational constructionismâ (CRC).
From this standpoint I shall provide a schematic overview of different discourses
of relations by discussing three âintelligibility nucleiâ (Gergen, 1995)
in terms of their interrelated âlines of distinctionâ (Deetz, 2000). I shall call
these discourses (1) âthis and that thinkingâ; (2) constructivism; and (3) critical
relational constructionism
Constructing changes: A social constructionist approach to change work (and beetles and witches)
Bounded entities, constructivist revisions and radical re-constructions
This article seeks clearly to distinguish constructivism and constructionism
and to give the reader a more extended and detailed knowledge of the latter.
It does so by outlining three different discourses: entitative, constructivism
and critical relational constructionism (CRC). In the first, relations are
storied as âgoing onâ between independently existing entities in Subject-
Object (S-O) relation. The second involves a shift from naĂŻve to (some sort
of) critical realism and so blurs some S-O constructions. The third discourse
(CRC) is the least well known. It is the only one that reflexively treats its own
themes and assumptions and those of âscienceâ as constructions that could be
otherwise â hence the term âcriticalâ. CRC is presented as a different
language game. Instead of centring relatively stable entities, minds and ârealâ
reality, CRC centres ongoing relational processes as they construct and
re-construct multiple Self - Other relations - as relational realities
Leadership processes and leadership development: Reflections from a social constructionist paradigm
Constructing changes:A Social constructionist approach to changework (and beetles and witches)
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