POSDO6100 Practice Oriented Systemic Design Emneplan

In this course, you will be challenged to take a role as a practice oriented systemic designer - facilitating, managing, and designing systems, service and product solutions, and strategies for implementation.

Systems and game theory provide you with methods to change and develop services, strategies, practice and thinking.

The course is a collaboration between Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway and partner institutions in Europe.

None, other then the admission requirements.

After completing the course, the participant is expected to have achieved advanced level in the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The participant will attain knowledge within:

• general systems theory
• cybernetic and communication theory
• system dynamics and analysis
• game dynamics in systems
• methods for data gathering in complex settings (visual interviewing, design probes and play probes, co-design, among others)
• experimentation in systems

Skills

The participant is capable of:

• describing and identifying exceedingly complex contexts
• creating systems-maps
• performing system analyses
• utilizing methods for data gathering, sharing, cooperation, analysis, and documentation: visual interviewing, design probing, play probing, co-design, feministic design, auto-ethnographical research, mapping workshops, and analysis of relations, patterns, causality, stakeholders, systems dynamics.
• documenting findings in co-created visualizations.
• creating strategies and interventions for change in private and public sector.

General competence

The participant attains advanced competence in systemic design by:

• developing the ability to understand and handle complexity and systems thinking in design processes.
• holistic thinking and understanding of design projects in relation to sustainability and global mega trends.
• communication and cooperation by visualization.

The course consists of four weeks with workshops, tutoring sessions and independent study.

The participants will be encouraged to work with cases from their own professional working life in groups and with additional cases presented in the course.

None.

Individual or group portfolio examination.

The portfolio consists of: Systems Maps (visual map).

The examination result can be appealed.

Approved by the Doctoral Committee 24 May 2018. Minor changes approved 27.04.2020.

This PhD course is open for candidates at the PhD Program in Educational Sciences for Teacher Education, other PhD candidates and academic employees.

Language: English (and Norwegian, dependent on the language of participants).

In this PhD course, epistemological, methodological, and ethical perspectives on action research will be presented, discussed and related to examples of research projects. Reflections on connections between epistemological conceptual frameworks and practical choices in educational action research are emphasized.

On completion of the course, the candidate will have achieved the following learning outcomes:

Knowledge

The candidate

• has in-depth knowledge of epistemological and methodological perspectives on Action Research projects
• has in-depth knowledge of the role of the researcher in action research projects

Skills

The candidate:

• has gained methodological competence in understanding and engaging in Action Research at a sufficiently high level to develop knowledge in his/her field of study.
• can give academically competent written presentations of a relevant topic within action research

General competence

The candidate:

• can identify and establish constructive connections between theories, empirical data, and practices based on developed methodological competence in Action Research
• has sufficient ethical competence to identify relevant ethical challenges in his/her research process.

Organised tuition is given in the form of lectures and seminars. Candidates are expected to actively participate in all the teaching activities. Candidates will receive academic supervision on writing essays.