Triple-loop learning : theoretical framework, methodology & illustration

Abstract

Résumé Le concept d’apprentissage organisationnel permet de déterminer les modes de coordination entre les individus. Si la littérature est abondante concernant l’apprentissage en simple et double boucle, il semble que l’apprentissage en triple boucle fasse l’objet d’une plus grande confidentialité. Or c’est précisément la mobilisation de ce dernier qui peut aboutir à la formation de nouvelles stratégies d’apprentissage. Celles-ci favorisent la résolution de situations problématiques perçues comme complexes, améliorant ainsi la performance des organisations. Le présent article propose, par une approche multi-méthodologique innovante et la description d’un objet de recherche, de faciliter l’émergence de l’apprentissage en triple boucle.

Estimating maternal mortality: what have we learned from 16 years of surveys in Afghanistan?

“…6 doIng THIngS rIgHT and doIng THe rIgHT THIngS After over a decade of trial and error, the time has come to review lessons learnt before further attempts to estimate maternal mortality in Afghanistan. The triple-loop learning framework 16 offers a useful structure for these reflections. Single-loop learning consists of identifying errors (Are we doing things right?).…”

Complex Projects and Transition-Driven Evaluation: The Case of the easyRights European Project

“…To support Triple-Loop Learning, easyRights uses an open multi-method approach to facilitate interaction and therefore the creation of a collaborative way to work. Coherently with the analyses of human activity systems [51], this approach is aimed at integrating the social dimension of the constitutive dynamics of collective action [52]. Learning in communities is expected to be enabled when members interact by reflecting critically and communicating about their reflections, thus scaling the individual critical reflection up to a collective social level [53].…”

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“…The individual understands new elements and links them with prior knowledge and awareness. Knowledge is created at four levels: individual, group, organisational, and inter-organisational (Barbat, Boigey and Jehan, 2011;Turner, Fünfgeld and Robertson, 2016).…”

“…Triple-loop learning highlights the possibility of 'learning about learning' or 'learning to learn' and learning lessons from experience. Thus, multi-loop learning means analysing lessons (failures as well as successes) and translating these into updated and more informed decisions in the future (Barbat, Boigey and Jehan, 2011;Turner, Fünfgeld and Robertson, 2016). In the context of these models, knowledge is created, retained and transferred within an organisation.…”