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Linking Reflective Learning and Knowledge Maturing in Organizations
1. Linking Reflective Learning
and Knowledge Maturing in
Organizations
ARTEL Workshop 2013, Paphos, Cyprus
Birgit Krogstie, Andreas Schmidt,
Christine Kunzmann, John Krogstie, Simone Mora
2. Motivation
Reflection is a key activity for workplace learning
Current approaches to understanding and supporting
reflection focus on the individual and the team level
It remains challenging how reflection is embedded into
organizational knowledge development
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3. Knowledge Maturing
Knowledge Maturing is a promising perspective on
explaining knowledge development across the scopes of
the individual, the team, and the organizational level
It also clearly differentiates between artefacts and the
knowledge they (try to) represent
Goal:
Linking individual and team reflection perspectives
developed within MIRROR
with the knowledge maturing model (originally developed
in MATURE, now further developed in LAYERS)
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6. Propositions
1. Expertise moderates knowledge maturing through
reflection
2. The maturity of knowledge used in reflection moderates
the reflection process
3. Discrepancies between knowledge elements trigger
reflection and thereby affect knowledge maturing
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7. Examples
Examples of reflective learning in two care homes
Rose Garden Care Home
Two days observations
Three in-depth interviews with carers
Care principles are explicit in a flower-model of care
Community Care Home
Semi-structured interview
Prior contact to the care home
Characterized by high degree of stability
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8. 1. Expertise and Knowledge Maturing
Relationship to care principles in the Rose Garden Care
Home
Carer 1: (new to the care home)
learns care principles by heart to be prepared for
management inquiries
seeking to learn from others how to apply them
Carer 3: (senior carer)
aware of trade-offs and conflicts in practice
debates with management, thereby actively contributing to
developing the collective knowledge about „doing the right
thing“ further
8Sep 2013
9. 2. Maturity and Reflection
Community Care Home
Relevance of documentation requirement is a recurring
topic for reflection, which is unproductive
Legal requirements presented as standardized knowledge on
good care
But: this view is not shared
Problem:
Artefact (legal requirements) mixes two different purposes
and associate knowledge maturity: delivering good care and
compliance
Pretended maturity indicates non-changeability
Rose Garden Care Home
Care principles as mature knowledge
Scaffolds everyday practice, and provides a shared point of
reference
9Sep 2013
10. 3. Discrepancies
Individual – collective knowledge
Senior nurse observes new carers and reflects about her
strategies for onboarding them
Artefact – collective knowledge
Care plan vs. (collective) knowledge about a resident
Reflection leads to changes of the care plan
Another example
Documentation requirements (what needs to be
documented)
Vs. Knowledge what is useful
10Sep 2013
11. Implications for design
Example: Note taking app for carers in the Rose Garden
care home that is using the care model as a conceptual
anchor
Prop. 1: Introduce different levels of contribution
Beginners: learning care principles
Experienced: linking experiences to discover discrepancies
Prop. 2: Allow for promotion of notes to higher level of
maturity
Prop. 3: Allow for explicit between experiences,
collective knowledge (care model) and artefacts to
discover discrepancies
Add additional aspects such as personhood, time, consent
11Sep 2013
12. Conclusions
Knowledge Maturing is a useful framework to embed
reflection models into the overall organizational
knowledge development
Propositions
Individual expertise influences the quality of reflection
processes.
The maturity of knowledge involved in reflection sessions
influences reflection processes.
Discrepancies between individual & collective knowledge
as well as artefacts are triggers for reflection.
Combinations of these perspective can enrich both
reflection models and models of organizational
knowledge development
12Sep 2013
13. Team
Birgit Kroegstie, NTNU, Norway
birgitkr@idi.ntnu.no
Andreas P. Schmidt, Karlsruhe University of Applied
Sciences, Germany
andreas_peter.schmidt@hs-karlsruhe.de
Christine Kunzmann, Pontydysgu, UK
kontakt@christine-kunzmann.de
John Krogstie, NTNU, Norway
krogstie@idi.ntnu.no
Simone Mora, NTNU, Norway
simonem@idi.ntnu.no
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