How we think and talk about facilitation

Simulation and Gaming

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 694-704

  Kato, Fumitoshi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

closure; communication; drawing out ideas; facilitation; facilitation tools; images of facilitation; interpretive flexibility; Japan; leadership; on the spot experiment; research; SCOT (social construction of technology); social action; social construction; socially constructed concepts

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956970562     PISSN: 10468781     EISSN: 1552826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046878109334010     Document Type: Article

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