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Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to show how to enact a Batesonian system to teaching an ecology of mind course.
Design/methodology/approach
– The approach develops a practical framework for teaching with examples of teaching approaches and student work.
Findings
– The overarching approach involves a depth-abstraction-abduction model. This model was used to engage students in examining a variety of transdisciplinary phenomena with emphasis on contexts, meaning, multiple perspectives, stories, relationships and systems, patterns, and epistemology. Epistemological shocks and shifts were a common occurrence.
Originality/value
– This work is unique in that it focuses on a course based upon the film: “An ecology of mind: a daughter's portrait of Gregory Bateson”.
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2013
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