1st Edition

Self-Organised Learning Foundations of a Conversational Science for Psychology

426 Pages
by Routledge

426 Pages
by Routledge

From its foundation in the 1950s by George Kelly, Personal Construct Psychology continued to grow, both as a movement among psychologists and then in industry, education, government and commerce. Originally published in 1985 this title offers a compendium of elaborations and new conversational uses for Kelly’s repertory grid technique. The authors have dramatically transformed the grid from a... Read more

Foreword by Don Bannister.  General Introduction: The Self-Organised Learner and the Repertory Grid  1. The Personal Nature of Self-Organised Learning  2. Introducing the Repertory Grid: Elements and Constructs  3.The Construction of Personal Meaning  4. FOCUSing: The Emergent Pattern  5. Talkback through a FOCUSed Grid  6. Grid Conversations for Achieving Self-Awareness  7. The Space within which Personal Meaning may be Represented  8. A PCP Approach to Perception  9. The Critical Self: Conversational Self-Assessment  10. Grid Conversations for the Sharing of Meaning  11. Groups and Institutions as Personal Learning Systems  12. The Theory and Practice of Conversational Science: Tools for the T-C Practitioner.  Grid Tricks: An Accessing System to the CSHL Reflective Learning Technology.  Appendix A: Applications of the Repertory Grid.  Appendix B: The Centre for the Study of Human Learning.  Glossary: The Personal Structure of Meaning of the Authors.  Bibliography.  Index.

Biography

Laurie F. Thomas and E. Sheila Harri-Augstein, Centre for the Study of Human Learning, Brunei University.