Conceptual underpinnings for state-of-the-art approaches concerning leadership and social systems change (GIZ TVET Programme Pakistan)

About Course

This is a sequence of e-learning modules for asynchronous self-organized learning by the staff of the GIZ TVET Programme Pakistan. It’s not a stand-alone course but a complement to the face-to-face modules and the synchronous online modules.

Course Content

E-learning Module 1: Constructivism in dealing with communication and social systems

Introduction to the concept of constructivism
Quiz about constructivism
Using the constructivist approach to understand communication issues

Conceptual underpinnings for state-of-the-art approaches concerning leadership and social systems change (GIZ TVET Programme Pakistan)

About Course

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

E-learning Module 1: Constructivism in dealing with communication and social systems

Introduction to the concept of constructivism

Quiz about constructivism

Using the constructivist approach to understand communication issues

E-LEarning Module 2: General Introduction to Systems Thinking and its application to organisations

Systems thinking – brief general introduction, relation to the constructivist approach

Thinking the evolution of social systems – narratives, complexity and change

Quiz about systems thinking

E-learning Module 3: Change Management

Process models for change in organisations

The concept of “intervention” revisited

The concept of “resistance” revisited – iceberg, defensive routines and organisational culture