going through the interviews i can see different needs and readinesses of the fellows. Reasons for wanting an alumni scheme seem to depend on the fellows' progress on their personal trajectory:
- skills acquisition, motivation, access to expertise
- desire to share forward, multiply what they have experienced, sharing forward leadership training, writing training and mentoring younger fellows in instituttions , sensitiszing men, reaching out to girls in schools
- desire to engage with external environment, set agendas, influence policy, lead relevant research
Frameworks to help understand this or locate individuals are:
Mayoux four powers framework that we use in AWARD
- power from within (confidence, motivation, networking for inspiration)
- power to do (skills acquistion, networking for personal career development)
- power over (resource generation, networking for visibility)
- power with (setting agendas, influencing policy, networking for concerted action)
What i feel doesn't fit exactly and maybe this extends that framework a bit, is the desire many of them have to act as a multiplier of the AWARD effect. Maybe the empowerment framework is seen principally as a personal thing and doesn't cater for this kind of altruistic power to in the sense of giving it to... What other preposition could we use to render this idea?
Power from? Power through? Power beyond? Power across?
Waddell typology of networks
societal learning. Networks can be seen as a typology of increasing societal impact where the last is generative network in which the network is outward looking and aims to create societal change.
Appreciative systems
Using the term 'readinesses' made me think of Vicker's appreciative systems. I wonder if there is anything there which could be helpful in this analysis. TIme to go back and reread.
Kitchener's three levels of cognition
AWARD helps the fellows solve problems better, then they get meta prepared, reflexive, self aware to step out of their scientific cloud and see the bigger purpose (as Sheila Ommeh said). A third level can be seen as trying rather than being good at adapting to the envrionment, as trying to shape the environment.
Of course the framework i haven't mentioned is the actual CoP framework that guided my research. I hope that is not going to matter....