Surrey Life-wide Learning Award Dealing with situations PODCAST 3 Dealing with situations

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A situation is the combination of circumstances in which you find yourself in or place yourself into at a given moment 2 What you do to make it happen Situation may be Familiar/routine/straight forward unfamiliar/complex difficult to understand Challenge, Problem, Opportunity 3 Think about what happened and learn from experience 1Think about/evaluate a situation plan/design a course of action

To achieve something significant – like pass an exam or fulfil a work or volunteering role will involve you in many situations that are related over a period of time exam personal reflections and conversations results time situations 1Think about/evaluate situation plan/design a course of action New situation challenge, problem, opportunity confusion, perplexity 3 Think about results learn from experience 2 Act/perform invent/adapt

Complex Complicated Chaotic Simple Cause and effect only make sense in retrospect. Situation is unpredictable and it is unlikely to be repeatable although the principled learnt can be applied again Complicated Cause and effect separated over time and space, but repeatable Situation is analysable and knowable Chaotic No cause and effect relationships Situation is generally perceivable Simple Cause leads to a predictable effect relations repeatable Situation is known

Being able to think about complicated and complex situations

Dimensions of knowledge and knowing John Seely Brown (2003) Explicit Tacit situational understanding

Types of knowledge Michael Eraut (2010) Codified [book] knowledge in the form(s) in which the person uses it Know-how in the form of skills and practices Personal understandings of people and situations Accumulated memories of cases and episodic events Other aspects of personal expertise, practical wisdom and tacit knowledge Self-knowledge, attitudes, values and emotions.

Dimensions of knowledge and knowing John Seely Brown (2003) Explicit Learning about Tacit Learning to be situational understanding Learning to become

Recap 1 We examined why learning how to appreciate and deal with situations is central to our capability to make things happen We considered the patterns of thinking and behaviours associated with dealing with a situation and used a simple tool, the Cynefin framework, to help us think about the level of complexity in different situations 3 And we looked at the different forms of knowledge and the differences between codified knowledge and tacit knowledge How can you apply this knowledge?

1 Simple 2 Complicated 3 Complex 4 Chaos Using your life map which of these types of situation can you identify in your life? Think about the characteristics of each and your role in each situation and the forms of knowledge you needed to perform. 2 What you do to make it happen 1 Simple 2 Complicated 3 Complex 4 Chaos 3 Think about what happened and learn from experience 1Think about/evaluate a situation plan/design a course of action