Systems thinking to complexity strands in
Tavistock evaluation approach
Systems
theory
New
evaluation
approaches
emerging to
address
complex
world
Lewin: Field
theory
Complexity
theory
Complexity: from Latin complexus ‘intertwined’ or ‘plaited’
Action research
Action orientated,
participative,
theory and system
based, evaluation
projects
System based,
Socio- technical,
Socio-ecological,
System
psychoanalytic
thinking
Interdisciplinary practice:
sociologists, anthropologists, psychotherapists, engineers, psychologists
economists, political scientists (amongst others….)