.... Design/methodology/approach An adapted conceptual systematic review was conducted using top-cited articles and systematic literature reviews on the definition of active learning. A nine-dimensional coding frame was developed from first- and second-order cybernetics, including agentive, adaptive...

... 1970s allowed certain ideas developed for specific domains to be successfully utilized in other contexts. It underlines the power of the epistemological approaches, a significant example of which is developed within second-order cybernetics, in developing fruitful exchanges between disciplines...

... 2023 07 03 2024 26 04 2024 06 05 2024 06 05 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Philosophy Self-organization Second-order cybernetics Complexity Epistemology The aim of this article is to present...

... be contacted at: andre.oksas@gmx.de 09 09 2023 28 01 2024 25 02 2024 01 03 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Mathematics Cybernetics Second-order cybernetics Systems theory Automata theory Spencer...

... (Statistics Poland, 2019). Vulnerable and numerous, SMEs resemble bees. Busy as they are, they only last a season and must die so that the swarm can survive in the long run. Decision-making Risk management Social systems Second-order cybernetics Sociology Management Small and medium-sized...

...Tomaž Kolar; Iztok Kolar Purpose This paper aims to inform the promotion of sustainable modes of transport. For this purpose, it deploys a means-ends framework as a type of second-order cybernetics and uses it to explore cognitive transport mode choice structures. Design/methodology/approach...

... Social systems Social networks Second-order cybernetics Autopoiesis In the course of the development of his theory of society until the end of the 1990s, Niklas Luhmann was able to state that “the dominance of functional differentiation, if and to the extent that it asserts itself...

... to develop and assess profiles and their impact in contemporary social contexts. The two concepts general peer and profilicity are theoretical innovations. Second-order cybernetics Public sphere Niklas Luhmann General peer Profilicity A post of the call for papers in response to which...

... across and beyond academia are seldom absent from discussions amongst cyberneticians at conferences and in print. In particular, the failure of the reflexive turn of second-order cybernetics (SOC) to gain a foothold in contemporary scholarly discourse beyond a narrow range of researchers is a constant...

..., and the retardation of decay. It is the author’s desire that this paper encourages the reader to explore some of Herbert Brün’s formulations for designing social change and transformations. Cybernetics Second-order cybernetics Language Epistemology Social change Herbert Brün Composing, whenever...

... Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only The purpose of this paper to discuss ethical principles that are implicit in second-order cybernetics, with the aim of arriving at a better understanding of how second-order cybernetics frames living in a world with others...

... journal entries (Ashby, 2008) and writings from the relevant period points in a different, intriguing direction. In the mid-1950s, Ashby’s explorations of black box theory led him to attempt to frame and solve what was essentially a second-order cybernetic problem: designing a self-organizing system...

... the question of why a researcher should address one’s epistemology in the research. Using second-order cybernetics as an approach, observer dependence is exemplified and justified in the context of religious studies research methodology. The research activity is shown as a relational temporal coupling...

... it is extensible to individual human behaviour and personality studies. However, group behaviour studies are beyond its scope. The methodology starts from reconciling second-order cybernetics/radical constructivism (SOC/RC) understanding of the central role of the observer with physical measurements, which...

... to the resolution/dissolution of a variety of conflicts across society. This is the only empirical investigation of the outcomes of forum theatre known to the authors. It is certainly unique in its second-order cybernetic framework. Conflict Systems theory Second-order cybernetics Theatre Niklas...

... applicability. China Education South Africa Second-order cybernetics Cross-cultural studies Radical constructivism Arising from the long-term examination of applied educational practice, findings discussed in the paper are intended to inform similar practice in other contexts. The authors...

... investigators have neglected the role of the observer, resulting in an accumulation of data that requires substantial re-interpretation. Altogether, infant psychophysics has proven far too resilient for its own good. Infant psychophysics is examined for the first time through second-order cybernetics...

... from the attending laboratory staff. Indeed, infant and staff altogether constitute a new, reflexive whole, one that has proven too resilient for anybody’s good. Second-order cybernetics Attention Infant Black Box Physiology Psychophysics Empirical psychometric functions, which show...

... a cybernetic system. This observation led to cybernetics developing an understanding of itself in its own terms, usually referred to as the cybernetics of cybernetics or second-order cybernetics (Glanville, 2002 ; Mead, 1968 ; Riegler et al., 2017 ; Umpleby, 2017 ; von Foerster , 1995, 2003c) [ 2...

... is demonstrated. Cybernetics Complexity Sociocybernetics Second-order cybernetics Emergence Autopoiesis Robert M. Cutler can be contacted at: rmc@alum.mit.edu 28 11 2017 08 03 2018 20 04 2018 27 04 2018 01 05 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald...