Part Three: Review and reflection

As part of interest in and commitment to critical self-reflection we wanted to include an essay which situated this process in the context of conceptual models of learning and thinking with models too of enquiry. The essay included here and our conclusion attempt to contribute to these debates.

Both approaches seek to draw out what and how we might inform our practice and policy choices from an explicit model of learning and reflection. We think that the current on-going crisis across global institutions as well as professional and policy networks underlines the necessity for a systematic review of the relationships between policy decision-making; political choices; institutions and frameworks of governance and the extent to which such approaches promote participatory decision-making. We developed this series to encourage a different kind of conversation between researchers, activists, practitioners and policy-makers. We think that the crises (while they may appear to stabilise) remain and represent an on-going challenge to existing (and known) systems of governance and decision-making.