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Eye opener: exploring complexity using rich pictures
Historically, approaches to exploring complexity have mainly focused on the notion that complex problems must be deconstructed into simpler parts if we are to make sense of them; this is the so-called reductionist approach. When dealing with the complexity of human experience, however, deconstructin...
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Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4456463/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25947652 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40037-015-0187-7 |
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author | Cristancho, Sayra |
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description | Historically, approaches to exploring complexity have mainly focused on the notion that complex problems must be deconstructed into simpler parts if we are to make sense of them; this is the so-called reductionist approach. When dealing with the complexity of human experience, however, deconstructing the experience without diminishing it is a daunting, perhaps impossible task. Researchers wishing to make sense of complex experiences often begin by interviewing the individuals at the centre of those experiences. But interviews can be frustratingly limited. Visual methods, such as drawings, are beginning to show promise for designing research that taps into the complexity of professional practice. The promise of visual methods may relate to a key notion in complexity research: ‘disruptions’. In this paper I introduce the notion of ‘disruptions’ as articulated by complexity approaches from ‘systems engineering’ and suggest ‘rich pictures’ as an effective visual method to describe and understand complex problems in medical education research. |
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spelling | pubmed-44564632015-06-05 Eye opener: exploring complexity using rich pictures Cristancho, Sayra Perspect Med Educ Eye-Opener Historically, approaches to exploring complexity have mainly focused on the notion that complex problems must be deconstructed into simpler parts if we are to make sense of them; this is the so-called reductionist approach. When dealing with the complexity of human experience, however, deconstructing the experience without diminishing it is a daunting, perhaps impossible task. Researchers wishing to make sense of complex experiences often begin by interviewing the individuals at the centre of those experiences. But interviews can be frustratingly limited. Visual methods, such as drawings, are beginning to show promise for designing research that taps into the complexity of professional practice. The promise of visual methods may relate to a key notion in complexity research: ‘disruptions’. In this paper I introduce the notion of ‘disruptions’ as articulated by complexity approaches from ‘systems engineering’ and suggest ‘rich pictures’ as an effective visual method to describe and understand complex problems in medical education research. Bohn Stafleu van Loghum 2015-05-07 2015-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4456463/ /pubmed/25947652 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40037-015-0187-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the CreativeCommons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, andreproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and thesource are credited. |
spellingShingle | Eye-Opener Cristancho, Sayra Eye opener: exploring complexity using rich pictures |
title | Eye opener: exploring complexity using rich pictures |
title_full | Eye opener: exploring complexity using rich pictures |
title_fullStr | Eye opener: exploring complexity using rich pictures |
title_full_unstemmed | Eye opener: exploring complexity using rich pictures |
title_short | Eye opener: exploring complexity using rich pictures |
title_sort | eye opener: exploring complexity using rich pictures |
topic | Eye-Opener |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4456463/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25947652 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40037-015-0187-7 |
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