Appreciative Inquiry
Appreciative Inquiry
Most reflection asks what went wrong. Appreciative inquiry asks what is going right and how to build on it. The framing changes the conversation, the data, and often the result. The chapter covers the core idea, how it differs from traditional problem-solving, the five principles, the move from appreciative to transformative inquiry, and the 5-I approach.
What appreciative inquiry is and the difference between asking what works versus what is broken
Two metaphors: teaching as problems to solve versus teaching as a mystery to embrace
Constructionist, Simultaneity, Poetic, Anticipatory, and Positive principles plus the 4D cycle
Combining critical and appreciative inquiry into transformative inquiry for second-order learning
Initiate, Inquire, Imagine, Innovate, Inspire to Implement: a more detailed framework based on SOAR
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