| KEYWORD | DEFINITION
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| Abductive reasoning | A creative, often overlooked mode of thinking
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| Accountability | Arguably, a relatively recent concept (in evolutionary terms)
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| Alienation | See also consciousness
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| Allopoiesis | The nature of elaborate designed systems (inanimate and purposive)
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| Alphabetical writing | See also alienation
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| Answer-seeking questions | See also question-framing
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| Artificial Intelligence (AI) | Contentious in a learning context
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| Attitude angle | See also contagious optimism
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| Attribution | A useful term for our copyright conditions
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| Auspicious conversations | A fruitful form of co-creativity
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| Auspicious reasoning | Defined here in a published paper
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| Autodidactic | Our extended definition
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| Autopoiesis | Refers to the circular causality of living systems
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| Bisociation | See also creativity
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| Catalysis | Inspiring change without becoming an indispensable agent
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| Choirs | Often regarded as beneficial to social wellbeing
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| Climate change denial | A complex web
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| Clocks | Mechanistic arbiters of human behaviour
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| Consciousness | See also shamanism
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| Contagious optimism | Useful within a team context
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| Context | Our own use of the term
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| Conviviality | Two definitions are discussed, here.
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| Cows for Peace | A Rwandan method of synergizing reconciliation
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| Co-sustainment | A stronger alternative to 'sustainability'
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| Craic | Irish word corresponding to 'fun', 'for its own sake' or a 'playful teasing'
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| Creative democracy | Originally defined by John Dewey
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| Creative duos | A method of co-creating more opportunities
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| Creative quartets | A method of co-creating more opportunities
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| Creativity | An important component of effective learning
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| Curriculum | Reflects managerial aspects of education
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| Cynicism | (note the capital 'c')
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| Diversity of diversities | Complexity brings opportunities to synergise value
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| Dopamine | A neurotransmitter (see also endorphins, oxytocin & seratonin)
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| Dunbar number | see also organisational consciousness
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| Dysgu | A Welsh word that refers to both learning and teaching
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| Element | A term used by Sir Ken Robinson
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| Emulsifier | Someone able to broker or heal social relationships
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| Endorphins | A neurotransmitter (see also dopamine, oxytocin & seratonin)
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| Entredonneurship | A home-made complement to entrepreneurship
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| Ephemeralization | The principle of doing more with less
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| Evaluation | Evaluation (compare with measurement
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| Exceptions | A useful asset in a rigid world of homogeneity and rules
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| Feedback | See also negative feedback and positive feedback
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| Guardian | A term coined (in this definition) by Joanna Jones
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| Handlearning | A highly simplified figure that typifies haptic / somatic learning
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| Headlearning | A highly simplified figure that typifies rational / logic-oriented learning
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| Heartlearning | A highly simplified figure that typifies emotionally intelligent learning
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| Holacracy | When the whole governs the whole
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| Holistic learning | ...or what we mean by it...
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| Homeostasis | The dynamic process that maintains living systems
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| Humourlearning | A highly simplified figure that typifies playful / transgressive learning
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| Identity | An ecological perspective
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| Invention paradigm | Re-thinking the genre & mindset of the inventor
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| Jeong | A Korean word that is hard to translate into English
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| Knowledge | Where and when, exactly, does it exist?
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| Languaging | Our name for a (cognitive) working style
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| Learning ensemble | A mutual learning partnership of more than two
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| Legacy conservation | see long termism
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| Levelling in groups | A helpful process when seeking holarchy
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| Levers for Change | A term coined by Donella Meadows
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| Long-termism | Our re-calibration of the customary timescale of thinking
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| Luck | Our definition acknowledges that we may have more agency than we think.
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| Making meaning | Also see semiosis & semiotics
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| Measurement | Standard quantification using an arbitrary extrinsic scale
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| Metadesign | Always needs updating.
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| Metcalf's Law | See also consciousness and organisational consciousness
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| Miracles | Making the impossible more thinkable
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| Money | Perhaps an underrated factor in what is creating the Anthropocene
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| Network Consciousness 1 & 2TBC | A useful concept inspired by Marvin Minsky
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| Negative feedback | See also positive feedback
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| 'No Buts' tool | A simple and amusing challenge
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| Organisational Consciousness | Our own term (see Consciousness).
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| Outcome-seeking question | A type of question that invites more than theory.
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| Oxytocin | A neurotransmitter (see also dopamine, endorphins & seratonin)
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| Paradigm | Explains how the word evolved since Plato.
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| Positive feedback | See also feedback
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| Polyphibian | An imaginary figure devised by Ziva Ljubec
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| POUT tool | A more affirmative version of the SWOT tool
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| Practice versus theory | A binary distinction that is unhelpful to learners
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| Propositional ideas density | A concept applied in creativity, schizophrenia & dementia studies
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| Proprioception | Bodily self-awareness
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| Question-framing | Towards a new design grammar
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| Redamancy | Love that is returned
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| Relational approach | Some benefits in thinking this way
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| Relevation | A rarely used term that turns 'relevance' into a verb
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| Relational mathematics | Designing by focusing on relations, not things
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| Rigour | Used in the academic context of research and scholarship
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| Salamander | Why we chose the name as a brand
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| Search | See also research
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| SELF | An acronym for 'Self Evaluated Learning Framework'
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| Self-interest | Differentiating between common alternative meanings
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| senseness | A term coined by Anette Lundebye
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| Seratonin | A neurotransmitter (see also dopamine, endorphins & oxytocin)
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| Serious play | An unbounded purposive method
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| shamanism | Our deliberately narrow and prosaic definition
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| Structural coupling | A term used by Maturana & Varela
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| Sustainability | An unhelpfully elusive term
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| Sympoiesis | Uses co-creativity as a team bonding process
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| Synergy - first order | The basic meaning of this ancient term
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| Synergy - second order | Thinking beyond the summative
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| Synergy of synergies | Some synergies can be combined to produce a surplus
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| Tacit knowledge | It explains knowing how, rather than knowing that
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| Tetrahedron | A 3D form with special properties
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| Theory versus practice | A binary distinction that is unhelpful to learners
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| Thermostats | Part of a network of gadgets regulating our lives.
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| Trim-tab | A term used by Richard Buckminster Fuller
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| Ubuntu | An African word describing allegiances and relations.
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| Wicked problems | A term used to describe complex, capricious situations.
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| Wisdom | An unpopular word (redefined for 21st century learners).
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| Wu wei | The taoist notion of knowing how/when to act |