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Navigating the Stakeholder Squeeze with SMAD: A Tale of Madness and Method

Explore the challenges in educational development, including privatized projects and resistance, through Soft Methodology for Academic Development. Delve into stakeholder analysis, rich pictures, and the power dynamics of methods.

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Navigating the Stakeholder Squeeze with SMAD: A Tale of Madness and Method

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  1. Tackling the ”stakeholder squeeze” with SMAD (Soft Methodology for Academic Development) A story of method and organisational madness Associate Professor Laurence Habib Centre for Educational Research and Development Oslo University College When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. Mark Twain, 1898

  2. In the Wild West of educational development What would I need a requirement analysis for?

  3. Cowboy approaches to educational development • Danger no. 1: ”Privatized” projects • fewer opportunities for feedback • fewer opportunities to make an ”impact” on the field • Danger no. 2: Resistance/sabotage

  4. Soft and hard systems thinking

  5. Rich pictures

  6. Challenges • Who has a stake in the project? • Pictures • A universal language? • Liberating or constraining? • Humor or provocation? • Picture drawer: a complex and ambiguous role • Model power • Methodology power

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