i AM STILL ATTRACTED BY MY MASTERS MATERIAL WHERE I QUOTED “Much of

developmental psychology, as it now exists, is the science of the strange behavior of children in strange situations with strange adults for the briefest possible periods of time” (1979, p. 19). Bronfenbrenner, U. (1979). The ecology of human development: Experiments by nature and design. Cambridge, MA:

Harvard University Press.​

More recently chaordic system approaches ,complex systems ,human systems design,have been influential in my thinking 

Ralph Stacey  influences  the following map that shapes my thinking about the complex interdependencies between ACTORS  & FACTORS  that apply to local contexts where dominant  logframe approaches satisfy the superficial output needs of some funding bodies  that focus on do to  ,do for that focus on push programming /applying  increasingly irrelevant policy guidelines to  wider audiences whol live in increasingly diverse contexts

I would prefer  to  engage people  in co design of "pull"programs services that amplify attractors, build on assets  at a local level AND provide evidence informed decision support frames  to shape deliberate dialogue . 



At the same time ,recent studies in neuroscience and writings in  Theory of Planned Behaviour  suggest  our brain’s neural network holds many ‘frames’ or

schemas for processing information. A schema is a mental structure that
represents some aspect of the world.4 Brains acquire schemas through experience and experience reshapes schemas over time. A conjuncture is a set of
circumstances, specific to a concrete place and time, in which actors, settings,
social structural constraints and normative expectations intersect

the role of intention is dramatically different in an unconscious

process, if it can be said to play any part at all. Intention may be ascribed to an
action as a post hoc rationalisation for a behaviour already performed, but it

cannot exist in the sense of a conscious commitment to act that exists before the

action occurs. Simple examples are indisputable: a professional baseball player is
asked how he hit a 96 mph fastball for a home run. He responds: “I saw the ball
was going to be a strike, I decided to swing and to pull it to leftfield; then I just
put the bat on the ball.”



​Culture and Developmental Plasticity

Evolution of the Social Brain Mark V. Flinn