Academic articles on OST - myths

[Maya Negev]

Dear Michael,

Thank you very much for your response.

I will try to explain why i used the term participatory- and maybe i am
totally wrong about it.

In our research, we want to produce guidelines for environmental education
with a multicultural approach. we think that representatives of the various
sectors in Israel should take part, in order to reflect the various
perspectives. we looked for a method to do so and reached Tova Averbuch, who
recommended OST. so, as the various stakeholders will participate in this
process, I used the term participatory.

I will be grateful if you correct my terminology should you find that it is
deficient.

As for the list I am complying, I will be happy to share it with you.

Let me just ask the people who sent resources to my personal e-mail rather
than the list.

very best wishes,

Maya.


On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Michael M Pannwitz <mmpanne at boscop.org>
wrote:

> Dear Maya,
> in an academic article I would love to see reflections on the myth that
>  OST is a "participatory" method. OST is a method that supports in a not
> very well researched manner the unfolding of self organisation. In doing so,
> phenomena such as "participation" are observed. This, however, is not the
> intention of OST. In fact, a whole bunch of phenomena or characteristics are
> observed during an OST event, such as "democratic", "little hierarchy",
> "laughter", "community building", "synergy", "deep understanding" and other
> wonderful things. That does not make OST a method for "laughter" or
> "democracy" or "community building"...its gift is that in some ways it
> expands space and time for self organisation in which all kinds of things as
> described above and many others are observed which are not the intention of
> the approach and certainly not my intentions as facilitator.
>
> The same holds for another myth that OST enables people from very diverse
> backgrounds to voice their priorities and concerns. It is because of high
> diversity (and 4 other prerequisites necessary for OST to work and for self
> organisation to fully unfold)that participants observedly self organize
> around issues entered by themselves.
>
> I am sure you will receive many splendid pointers to academic articles
> about using and researching the method from this list. If you are interested
> in German language resources, I can forward your request to the German list
> serve populated by 200+ colleagues. And, of course, I would love to get a
> copy of the list your are compiling!
>
> Greetings from Berlin
> mmp
>
> Maya Negev wrote:
>
> > Dear OST community,
> >
> > I am a PhD student in Israel. while looking for a participatory method
> > to
> > research "multicultural approaches to environmental education", i
> > reached
> > Tova Averbuch, the leading OST consultant in Israel.
> >
> > OST seems to be the method I was looking for, thanks to it being fully
> > participatory, and thanks to it enabling people from very diverse
> > backgrounds to voice their priorities and concerns.
> >
> > As I am writing a research proposal, I am searching for academic
> > articles
> > and book chapters on OST, both about using and researching the method.
> > so
> > far I found very few such resources, and therefore I am writing to you:
> > should any of you be aware of academic resources on OST, I will be very
> > grateful if you bring them to my attention.
> >
> > All the very best, and thank you very much,
> >
> > Maya
> > maya.negev at gmail.com
> >
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