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Generative
Learning
‘‘A key to becoming a learning organization is to achieve a stage of generative
learning’’ (SENGE 1995)
Integration – involves incorporating new facts and concepts with prior known facts and
information; aims to modify information into facts; paraphrasing and summarizing contents;
make use of analogies and metaphors.
Organization –aims to have the learner relate background knowledge to new concepts in
well-structured or meaningful ways. Ex :analysing key ideas, categorizing similar topics,
outlining and creating concept maps.
Elaboration –is about connecting new information to prior knowledge, then synthesizing and
adding ideas to the new concept. Ex: creating physical diagrams, visual displays of ideas, and
freehand writing.
Creating a Generative Learning
Organization
How each person in an organization “contributes to the organization’s
problems, and then changes the way they act” (Chris Argyris, 1991)
“Requires new ways of looking at the world, whether in understanding the
customer or in understanding how to better manage a business”
Senge(1990)
See our own thinking and behaviours as they really are, rather than as we
wish they were
Do not fall into defensive routines that save us from perceived
embarrassment or threat.
Argyris’s studies conclusions
when people are faced with their own behaviours in situations that may seem embarrassing
or threatening, they shift the focus from examining their own behaviours to blaming
someone else or something else for their behaviours.
found a greater degree of defensiveness in people who have higher levels of education
if these people could use generative learning behaviours, they would be able to examine
their own defensive routines and generated new thinking and behaviours from what they
learned.
To create the opportunity for generative learning, we must build more effective thinking
patterns