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Learning from Friends: Developing appreciations for unknowing in reflexive practice

Allen, Stephen

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Stephen Allen



Abstract

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. In this article, I develop a new perspective on being reflexive, which appreciates unknowing as a core aspect. The intention is to promote more inclusive and equitable ways of managing and organising. By drawing on my own and others’ experiences of the ‘business method’ of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, images of the possibilities for reflexive practice, which embrace individual unknowing and help foster systemic intelligence, are explored. A relational ontology is pursued as these ideas can offer a suitable bridge to bring the processes of Quakers into conversation with debates about reflexive practice. The implication is that in the perspective developed, managing reflexively can be understood as a collective practice of searching for unity, or ‘sense of the meeting’, which is achieved through relational processes.

Citation

Allen, S. (2017). Learning from Friends: Developing appreciations for unknowing in reflexive practice. Management Learning, 48(2), 125-139. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507616671486

Acceptance Date Sep 6, 2016
Online Publication Date Oct 19, 2016
Publication Date Apr 1, 2017
Deposit Date Sep 13, 2016
Publicly Available Date Oct 19, 2016
Journal Management learning
Print ISSN 1350-5076
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 48
Issue 2
Pages 125-139
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507616671486
Keywords Group processes; Quakers; Reflexive practice; Reflexivity; Spirituality; Unknowing
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/442981
Publisher URL http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1350507616671486
Additional Information This is the author's accepted manuscript of an article which has been published in: Management learning, 2016, v.48 issue 2.
Contract Date Sep 13, 2016

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