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SUMMARY:Education Beyond Dispute: An exploration of the work of Stafford B
 eer in relation to Teaching and Learning - Mark Johnson (Centre for Educat
 ional Development and Support\, University of Liverpool)
DTSTART:20181112T170000Z
DTEND:20181112T180000Z
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CONTACT:Steve Watson
DESCRIPTION:Stafford Beer was a leading figure in management cybernetics w
 hose life and work spans a period of intellectual inquiry which draws in t
 he leading figures from the origin of cybernetics through to practical int
 erventions in organisations as diverse as United steel\, Warburtons\, the 
 Canadian health system and the Chilean economy under Salvadore Allende. Be
 er’s work is both polymathic and practical - he was an artist and poet w
 ho created machines\, wrote childrens' books and devised new graphical mod
 elling techniques. The work gives us a way of addressing fundamental and a
 mbitious questions about education: How do education systems work? What is
  teaching? What is conversation? What is the relationship between consciou
 sness and learning? \n\nIn this session\, Mark Johnson will demonstrate th
 e core principles of Beer's approach to cybernetic modelling\, from the co
 ncepts of “variety management”\, “transduction” and “viable syst
 ems” to his later experiments with organisational decision-making which 
 he called “syntegration” (documented in his 1994 book “Beyond Disput
 e”). This will be a practical session where participants will be invited
  to draw diagrams and explore his ideas using sound\, pictures\, multimedi
 a and conversation.\n\nMore about Stafford Beer http://metaphorum.org/staf
 fords-work\n\n\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/education-beyond-dispute-an-e
 xploration-of-the-work-of-stafford-beer-in-relation-to-teaching-and-ticket
 s-52277496399 
LOCATION:Room TBC\, Faculty of Education\, University of Cambridge
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