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 ==== Method and Scope ==== ==== Method and Scope ====
  
-Given we are dealing with the topic of reality construction, it would seem incongruous, and jarringly ironic, to use a positivist research approach.  Therefore the the underlying epistemology constructivist with an inductive research approach.  +The the underlying epistemology is constructivist with an inductive research approach.  
  
 Practically, this means that the questions set out earlier will be the connecting point for ideas, musings, and meetings that eventually will be made sense of retrospectively, with a deep sense of reflexivity. Practically, this means that the questions set out earlier will be the connecting point for ideas, musings, and meetings that eventually will be made sense of retrospectively, with a deep sense of reflexivity.
  
-Material will be gathered through+Material has been gathered through
  
   * Interviews and Connections   * Interviews and Connections
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   * Reflective blogging and Existential Story-ing   * Reflective blogging and Existential Story-ing
  
-and other methods that will be discovered.+
 ==== Results ==== ==== Results ====
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 +=== The Blog ===
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 Over the past year a large volume of material has been collected through excursions, reading, interviews, observations, experiments,listening, perusing, participating, scanning and engaging.  Over the past year a large volume of material has been collected through excursions, reading, interviews, observations, experiments,listening, perusing, participating, scanning and engaging. 
  
-This has been recorded in a **blog**  http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/ started specifically for this research project. +This has been recorded in a **blog**    http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/ and also used to feed this wiki. 
  
- **Reality creating, blurring and bridging activities investigations and recordings that are contained in its archives include material on:**+// **Reality creating, blurring and bridging activities investigations and recordings that are contained in its archives include material on**//
    
   * **sensorial labyrinths**    * **sensorial labyrinths** 
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 http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/09/this-is-what-i-am-talking-about.html  http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/09/this-is-what-i-am-talking-about.html 
  
-http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/11/gameland.html (participated in Blast Theories latest game/installation in Belo Horizonte, Brazil)+http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/11/gameland.html (participated in Blast Theories latest game in Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
  
   * **hybrids**   * **hybrids**
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 http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/09/growing-buildings.html (hybrid architecture) http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/09/growing-buildings.html (hybrid architecture)
  
-http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/11/tourist-in-my-own-land.html (eg.Krystle Tuvai's urban hybrid story-ing/Born Again Graffitist etc)+http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/11/tourist-in-my-own-land.html (Krystle Tuvai's urban hybrid story-ing plus others)
  
 http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/10/expo-of-un-popular-culture.html (item on Greg Broadmore and Weta Studios) http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/10/expo-of-un-popular-culture.html (item on Greg Broadmore and Weta Studios)
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-**as well as a number of other explorations,expeditions and musings that are tangentially related to this report:**+ 
 +//**as well as a number of other explorations,expeditions and musings that are tangentially related to this report**// 
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 http://lib.fo.am/awhi_world http://lib.fo.am/awhi_world
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-     +=== Literature Review === 
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 +Material was also collected through through reviewing literature from the transformational learning field, from management deveopment, from anthropological books and from fictional novels. These are listed in the references section. 
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 +=== The next section will summarise findings from all of these activities and discuss future implications and areas for further research ===
  
 ==== Discussion ==== ==== Discussion ====
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 ==== References ==== ==== References ====
  
-  * Darwin, J, Johnson, P and McAuley, J (2002). Developing strategies for Change. Prentice Hall. P: 16 +  * Darwin, J., Johnson,P. and McAuley, J (2002). Developing strategies for Change. Prentice Hall 
-  * Cooperrider, D. L., Barrett, F., Srivastva, S. (1995). Social Construction and Appreciative Inquiry: A Journey in Organizational Theory. Management and Organization: Relational Alternatives to Individualism. Ashgate.  +  * Cooperrider, D. L., Barrett, F. and Srivastva, S. (1995). Social Construction and Appreciative Inquiry: A Journey in Organizational Theory. Management and Organization: Relational Alternatives to Individualism, Ashgate  
-  *  Kegan, R. (1982) The Evolving Self. Harvard University Press.+  *  Kegan, R. (1982) The Evolving Self, Harvard University Press.
   *  Kegan, R. (1994) In Over Our Heads – The Mental Demands of Modern Life, Harvard University Press.   *  Kegan, R. (1994) In Over Our Heads – The Mental Demands of Modern Life, Harvard University Press.
 +  * Hyde, L. (1998) Trickster Makes This World - Mischief, Myth and Art, North Point Press
 +  * Schlitz, M.M., Vieten,C. and Amorok, T (2007) Living Deeply The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life, New Harbinger Publications and Noetic Books
 +  * Cranton, P. (2006) Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning - A Guide for Educators and Adults, John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2nd Edition
 +  * Mezirow, J. (2000) Learning as Transformation - Critical Perspectives on a Theory in Progress, Jossey-Bass
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