Systems Practice: How to Act by Ray Ison

Author:Ray Ison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer London, London

Source: Ray Ison (2002) ‘Farming and Rural Systems Research and Extension’, Proceedings from the Fifth IFSA European Symposium, Florence, April

7.6.1 Responses to the Four Organising Questions

In respect of the experiences I report in Reading 5, the answers that I give to the four questions I posed earlier are:Q1. Is it the method or how it is used that is important?

R1. From my perspective it is the praxis that is important – not the method . Unfortunately the civil servants in the situation I encountered were not engaged in praxis – they were responding to a set of pressures – to Treasury , the Secretary of the Department, the high turnover of staff and thus loss of ‘organisational’ memory, the felt need to be seen to be doing something, in a manner that they had done before – they were thus acting out a familiar routine because it was part of their repertoire, even though they knew it would not work.

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