Cited in DEOS the other day, this paper is an informative look at Kurt Lewin's change model and what it has to say about the close relationship between the notions of diagnosis and intervention. Something I need to keep in mind: learning (at certain levels) "occurs by taking in new information that has one or more of the following impacts: 1) semantic redefinition--we learn that words can mean something different from what we had assumed; 2) cognitive broadening--we learn that a given concept can be much more broadly interpreted than what we had assumed; and 3) new standards of judgment or evaluation--we learn that the anchors we used for judgment and comparison are not absolute, and if we use a different anchor our scale of judgment shifts." Now, reaching back, it means that I will have different definitions, different interpretations and different standards of evaluation or judgement than someone I am trying to teach. Which, I suppose, is what makes it so difficult for them to learn from me. More change theories.
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