Joint Action

Tim Corcoran is Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Critical Psychology at The Victoria Institute, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. He has extensive experience in educational psychology as a school psychologist and academic. His work has involved teaching, research and professional practice in Australia, the UK, Singapore and Iraq. He edited Psychology in education: Critical theory~practice (2014), an international collection of contributions examining critical approaches to educational psychology. More recently he co-edited Disability studies: Educating for inclusion (2015) and Critical Educational Psychology (2016). John Cromby is Reader in Psychology in the School of Management at the University of Leicester, UK. He has worked in the areas of intellectual impairment, mental health and drug addiction, and taught psychology at the universities of Loughborough, Bradford and Nottingham. He is the co-editor of ‘Social Constructionist Psychology: a critical analysis of theory and practice’ (1999); the co-author of Psychology, Mental Health and Distress (2013; winner of a British Psychological Society ‘Book of the Year’ award); and the author of ‘Feeling Bodies: embodying psychology’ (2015).

1. Refracting Shotter 2. John Shotter, uniqueness and poetics: Parallels with Ernst Cassirer 3. "Images of ‘Man’": One revolution around another (in roughly forty winks) 4. Well, err; actually…: John’s battle with language and certainty 5. Critique, construction and confluence: Journeying with John Shotter 6. The ethics of relational process: John Shotter’s Radical Presence 7. On being good researchers: Virtue, sympathetic co-experience and polyphonic unmasking 8. With feeling 9. Responsive improvisation: The shape of emergent dialogue 10. The power of the particular: Notes for an organisational science of singularities 11. Twenty-one words that made a difference: Shifting paradigms 12. Suppose Shotter had not read Dreyfus? 13. Anticipating hope 14. Constructing goes live: Soft self/other differentiation, sound processes and legein 15. John Shotter’s contribution to a better way