The knowledge externalisation cycle (KnEx): development of a systematic cyclic research method to guide researchers

Abstract

When planning, knowledge workers draw on their prior knowledge and reflect before action [38] on how the future activity could play out. Facilitators, as knowledge workers, plan future meetings, drawing on their past experiences. The knowledge externalised from these past experiences can be increased by facilitators reflecting as a group, as well as modelling the dialogue. It is within this context of externalising knowledge that the Knowledge Externalization Cycle (KnEx) was developed to guide the researchers through the research process from data generation to the presentation of results. The KnEx was modified from the Expansive Learning Cycle developed by Engestrom [9]. In this paper, I briefly discuss Engestrom's ELC and how a change of motive of the ELC led to the develop ment of the KnEx. I will then describe the KnEx using data drawn from research looking at facilitators' knowl edge to illustrate each phase of the KnEx. Providing a clear exposition of the research process is a way of over coming debates about objectivity since: It opens up the possibility of getting beyond the meaningless abstractions of objectivity and subjectivity and moving ahead to carefully selecting descriptive methodological language that best described your own inquiry processes and procedures [32, p. 576]. The Point of Departure — Engestrom's Expansive Learning Cycle

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