Developmental work research : : a tool for enabling collective agricultural innovation / / Mutizwa Mukute.

• VerfasserIn: Mukute, Mutizwa,
• Place / Publishing House: Wageningen, Netherlands : : Wageningen Academic Publishers,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (165 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Agriculture provides food and nutrition for all people and raw materials for industry. It is the source of employment and livelihoods for the majority of people in developing countries - including much of Sub-Saharan Africa. But agriculture faces sustainability and viability challenges, notably declining production and productivity, food and nutrition insecurity, and conflicting research and development approaches. Solutions to the challenges require innovation that involves transdisciplinary effort and multiple stakeholders.The Developmental Work Research (DWR) methodology enables practitione

Table of Contents

Table of contents; Acronyms and abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1 Background; 1.2 Innovation as a concept; 1.2.1 Innovation systems and partnerships; 1.2.2 Agricultural innovation system; 1.2.3 Themes or domains covered by agricultural innovation; 1.3 Purpose and objectives of this book; 1.4 Audience; 1.5 Justification; 1.4.1 Personal experience in NRM and agriculture; 1.4.2 The need for sharing a theory and methodology that transcends top-down and bottom-up approaches; 1.4.3 The need to utilise DWR-inspired research insights in societal development

1.6 Key features of DWR1.6.1 Forms of learning supported by DWR; 1.6.2 Main outcomes of working with DWR; 1.7 Agricultural learning and innovation orientations that can benefit from DWR; 1.7.1 Integrated agricultural research for development; 1.7.2 Development-oriented research in agriculture; 1.7.3 People centred learning and innovation; 1.7.4 Agricultural innovation systems; 1.8 NRM approaches that can benefit from DWR; 1.8.1 Collaborative NRM; 1.9 The added value of DWR; 1.10 Organisation of the resource book; 1.11 Conclusions; References

Chapter 2. The thinking behind Developmental Work Research2.1 Introduction; 2.2 CHAT and the ontology of developing systems; 2.3 CHAT and dialectics; 2.4 Key concepts in CHAT and DWR; 2.4.1 DWR and unit of analysis; 2.4.2 Human action and cultural mediation; 2.4.3 Activity system; 2.4.4 Interacting activity systems; 2.5 The development dimension of activity systems; 2.5.1 Zone of proximal development; 2.5.2 Remediation; 2.5.3 Examples of developing agricultural systems; 2.6 Cultural evolution and learning and their effect on practice; 2.6.1 Cultural evolution; 2.6.2 Cultural learning

2.6.3 Learning and practice in the context of CHAT and DWR2.7 Contradictions and practice; 2.7.1 Using contradictions to develop and expand practice; 2.7.2 Identification of contradictions at the beginning of the research journey; 2.8 Agency and practice; 2.8.1 Individual agency; 2.8.2 Relational agency; 2.8.3 Collective agency; 2.9 Theoretical and empirical abstraction of practice; 2.10 Conclusions; References; Chapter 3. Illuminating the DWR methodology; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 DWR in short; 3.3 Acknowledging on-going innovations

3.4 Noting of similarities between people-centred learning and innovation and DWR3.5 DWR and the expansive learning process; 3.5.1 The essence of DWR; 3.5.2 Expansive learning; 3.5.3 DWR and metaphors; 3.5.4 Sequence of contradictions in the course of expanding a practice; 3.6 Key principles that underpin DWR; 3.6.1 Double stimulation; 3.6.2 Ascending from the abstract to the concrete; 3.6.3 Transformative agency; 3.7 Change laboratory workshop: the spine of DWR; 3.7.1 Intended outcomes; 3.7.2 Preparing for CL workshops; 3.7.3 The CL workshop setting

3.7.4 Steps in implementing a CL workshop