Seale Chapter 13 - Notes

Seale (2006, ch.13) discusses the development of accessibility within an organisation as the creation of a constellation of practice, rather than a community of practice. How helpful do you think this approach is?

I think this is quite helpful. It provides a useful method of identifying the different roles within a community of practice, while acknowledging their influence on one another.

Do you think that Figure 13.1 on page 182 would be useful as a trigger for discussion within your organisation?

Seale's diagram is made with Higher Education in mind and would need to be adjusted to better represent the groups in my Secondary education context.

Would it enable you and your colleagues to identify what changes or developments are needed and why they are needed?

I think further development would be needed first, for example introducing a method of showing where channels of communication are stronger/weaker, which stakeholder groups have greater influence and so on.