The blog reviews the personal, experiential and historical, roots of the Constructive Developmental Framework as a tool for systematically exploring movements-in-thought through empirical data capture in real time. Its main purpose is to highlight the need for establishing a systematic training sequence geared to educating critical facilitators working in organizations and institutions, for the sake of promoting self-organization and transparency at work.
Thank you for the interesting history. I am studying social constructionism (as per Kenneth Gergen) and I wonder if you have written about social constructionism? I understand CDF adopts a constructivist paradigm, but in your history you note the co-construction of interviews, so it seems there is a sensitivity to the arguments made for social constructionism.
very sorry not to have found your comment earlier, Mark. Yes, CDF is a methodology for scrutinizing the thought structure of what people say, based on ‘dialectical thought forms’ on one hand, and evaluation of meaning making stage on the other. The notion is that people ‘construct’ the world right before your ears as they speak, and that what they say does not only have a ‘content’ but a ‘structure’ which is developmentally determined in the sense of Kegan stages and phases of complex thinking. Feel free to contact me at ‘[email protected]’ for further clarification and visit other blogs on this site. Otto Laske, Jan 23, 2020
When coming upon our answer today, I find that the notion of ‘social constructionism’ is much to abstract to be able to capture the real-time process through construct what is ‘real’ for them in real time. I would be delighted if you told me what for you is the crux of “social constructionism” and what that abstraction actually means in real-time work in organizations, even in politic. Best regards, Otto Laske, February 3, 2020