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One White Bit (some neologisms and eccentric definitions)
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KEYWORDDEFINITION
Abductive reasoningA creative, often overlooked mode of thinking
AccountabilityArguably, a relatively recent concept (in evolutionary terms)
AlienationSee also consciousness & Organisational Consciousness
AllopoiesisThe nature of elaborate designed systems (inanimate and purposive)
Alphabetical writingSee also alienation
Answer-seeking questionsSee also question-framing
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Contentious in a learning context
Attitude angleSee also contagious optimism
AttributionA useful term for our copyright conditions
Auspicious conversationsA fruitful form of co-creativity
Auspicious reasoningDefined here in a published paper
AutodidacticOur extended definition
AutopoiesisRefers to the circular causality of living systems
BisociationSee also creativity
CatalysisInspiring change without becoming an indispensable agent
ChoirsOften regarded as beneficial to social wellbeing
Climate change denialA complex web
ClocksMechanistic arbiters of human behaviour
ConsciousnessSee also Organisational Consciousness & shamanism
Contagious optimismUseful within a team context
ContextOur own use of the term
ConvivialityTwo definitions are discussed, here.
Cows for PeaceA Rwandan method of synergizing reconciliation
Co-sustainmentA stronger alternative to 'sustainability'
CraicIrish word corresponding to 'fun', 'for its own sake' or a 'playful teasing'
Creative democracyOriginally defined by John Dewey
Creative duosA method of co-creating more opportunities
Creative quartetsA method of co-creating more opportunities
CreativityAn important component of effective learning
CurriculumReflects managerial aspects of education
Cynicism(note the capital 'c')
Diversity of diversitiesComplexity brings opportunities to synergise value
DopamineA neurotransmitter (see also endorphins, oxytocin & seratonin)
Dunbar numbersee also consciousness and organisational consciousness
DysguA Welsh word that refers to both learning and teaching
ElementA term used by Sir Ken Robinson
EmulsifierSomeone able to broker or heal social relationships
EndorphinsA neurotransmitter (see also dopamine, oxytocin & seratonin)
EntredonneurshipA home-made complement to entrepreneurship
EphemeralizationThe principle of doing more with less
EvaluationEvaluation (compare with measurement
ExceptionsA useful asset in a rigid world of homogeneity and rules
FeedbackSee also negative feedback and positive feedback
GuardianA term coined (in this definition) by Joanna Jones
HandlearningA highly simplified figure that typifies haptic / somatic learning
HeadlearningA highly simplified figure that typifies rational / logic-oriented learning
HeartlearningA highly simplified figure that typifies emotionally intelligent learning
HolacracyWhen the whole governs the whole
Holistic learning...or what we mean by it...
HomeostasisThe dynamic process that maintains living systems
HumourlearningA highly simplified figure that typifies playful / transgressive learning
IdentityAn ecological perspective
Invention paradigmRe-thinking the genre & mindset of the inventor
JeongA Korean word that is hard to translate into English
KnowledgeWhere and when, exactly, does it exist?
LanguagingOur name for a (cognitive) working style
Learning ensembleA mutual learning partnership of more than two
Legacy conservationsee long termism
Levelling in groupsA helpful process when seeking holarchy
Levers for ChangeA term coined by Donella Meadows
Long-termismOur re-calibration of the customary timescale of thinking
LuckOur definition acknowledges that we may have more agency than we think.
Making meaningAlso see semiosis & semiotics
MeasurementStandard quantification using an arbitrary extrinsic scale
MetadesignAlways needs updating.
Metcalf's LawSee also consciousness and organisational consciousness
MiraclesMaking the impossible more thinkable
MoneyPerhaps an underrated factor in what is creating the Anthropocene
Network Consciousness 1 & 2TBCA useful concept inspired by Marvin Minsky
Negative feedbackSee also positive feedback
'No Buts' toolA simple and amusing challenge
Organisational ConsciousnessOur own term (see Consciousness).
Outcome-seeking questionA type of question that invites more than theory.
OxytocinA neurotransmitter (see also dopamine, endorphins & seratonin)
ParadigmExplains how the word evolved since Plato.
Positive feedbackSee also feedback
PolyphibianAn imaginary figure devised by Ziva Ljubec
POUT toolA more affirmative version of the SWOT tool
Practice versus theoryA binary distinction that is unhelpful to learners
Pre-purposeA way to acknowledge embodied agency
Propositional ideas densityA concept applied in creativity, schizophrenia & dementia studies
ProprioceptionBodily self-awareness
Question-framingTowards a new design grammar
RedamancyLove that is returned
Relational approachSome benefits in thinking this way
RelevationA rarely used term that turns 'relevance' into a verb
Relational mathematicsDesigning by focusing on relations, not things
RigourUsed in the academic context of research and scholarship
SalamanderWhy we chose the name as a brand
SearchSee also research
SELFAn acronym for 'Self Evaluated Learning Framework'
Self-interestDifferentiating between common alternative meanings
sensenessA term coined by Anette Lundebye
SeratoninA neurotransmitter (see also dopamine, endorphins & oxytocin)
Serious playAn unbounded purposive method
shamanismOur deliberately narrow and prosaic definition
Structural couplingA term used by Maturana & Varela
SustainabilityAn unhelpfully elusive term
SympoiesisUses co-creativity as a team bonding process
Synergy - first orderThe basic meaning of this ancient term
Synergy - second orderThinking beyond the summative
Synergy of synergiesSome synergies can be combined to produce a surplus
Tacit knowledgeIt explains knowing how, rather than knowing that
TetrahedronA 3D form with special properties
Theory versus practiceA binary distinction that is unhelpful to learners
ThermostatsPart of a network of gadgets regulating our lives.
Trim-tabA term used by Richard Buckminster Fuller
UbuntuAn African word describing allegiances and relations.
Wicked problemsA term used to describe complex, capricious situations.
WisdomAn unpopular word (redefined for 21st century learners).
Wu weiThe taoist notion of knowing how/when to act

Bucky Fuller's KeywordsPart of Paul Taylor's MAP website