Using a Wiki to Enhance Knowing Participation in Change in the Teaching-Learning Process (Innovations COLUMN‪)‬

Collaboration powers knowing participation in change. The notion that overarching conceptual and scientific systems provide a guiding framework for all aspects of our being in the world has been well accepted ever since the publication of Kuhn's (1962) landmark work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Explicating a Rogerian cosmology and philosophy, especially the ontology and epistemology, and the development of research and practice methods that flow directly from these tenets, has been the major focus of the first authors work grounded in Rogers' science of unitary human beings. For example, the unitary field pattern portrait research method (Butcher, 2006a, 2005, 1998) and the unitary pattern-based praxis model (Butcher, 2006b) are examples of research and practice methods derived from Rogers' ontology and epistemology. In addition to the development of research and practice methodologies, the science of unitary human beings also provides an ontological and epistemological foundation for developing pedagogy. Pedagogy is the art or profession of teaching (American Heritage Dictionary, 2000). Yet, to this date little has been written concerning the development of Rogerian science informed pedagogies.