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 & Organisational 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 Organisational Consciousness & 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 consciousness and 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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Pre-purpose | A way to acknowledge embodied agency
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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 |