<p>ABSTRACT</p><p>This paper aims to shed light to what extent a financier have learnt about sustainable</p><p>organizational change, through development projects taking part in the Swedish knowledge</p><p>Foundations program, ICT in Teacher’s training. Some questions asked were: Has the</p><p>Swedish Knowledge Foundation learnt by researchers’ and self evaluation’s “stirring up” of</p><p>ongoing projects? What type of learning process has been going on? Has new, mutual,</p><p>knowledge been constructed or has already existing knowledge been transferred?</p><p>The study consists of one participating observation and three interviews. They show</p><p>how the financed projects have been “stirred up” so that a developmental learning process has</p><p>started within their organization. The project, together with the researchers have then “stirred</p><p>up” individuals in the financier’s organization and signs, indicating that an individual</p><p>developmental learning process has been initiated, can be seen.</p><p>In order to analyze the result, a model showing how sustainable organizational change</p><p>can be seen as a product of steering, support and stirring up, is used. Dewey’s theories on how</p><p>new knowledge is constructed are central. His thoughts, on how learning, in the sense of</p><p>constructing new knowledge, needs some kind of obstacle or disturbance to be initiated are</p><p>central. In addition to this, Ellström’s (2001) thoughts on developmental learning as well as</p><p>strategies for project governance (Svensson & von Otter, 2001) are discussed. Also added are</p><p>thoughts on interactive research and formative evaluations.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:kau-1228 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Halvarsson, Agneta |
| Publisher | Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Education |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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