a comment from anyone

From: Mike Cole (mcole@weber.ucsd.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 05 2001 - 09:18:00 PDT


Judy asks for comment on the following:

>Katherine, diane, as I understood it, the hard part of developmental
>research is the first part -- creating the conditions under which
>participants in an activity are motivated in some major way to radically
>change the way they do things.

As I understand the methodology of the Finnish Developmental Research
Group, they undertake research in conditions where an organization faces
a crisis that has risen to the level of general awareness and turn to
the researchers for help. That is, the conditions of motivation to
change radically are given.

mike



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