ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the tools, in the abstract, as forms of inquiry and reflection. Reflexive inquiry (RI) draws on and develops systemic, constructionist, critical, appreciative, and complexity discourses to open up possibilities for new patterns. An RI orientation treats communication as the site of interest and as the place for change to happen. The value of public inquiry in a group setting is that a group process is created through positioning participants both as speakers and listeners, enabling a complexity of learning to be experienced and observed. The systemic tradition has made a unique contribution to inquiry methodologies through its writings on circular and reflexive questioning. Public reflection has been proposed as a basis for learning and, in particular, its potential valued for developing a community of inquiry. Reflection, B. Elkjaer argues, works creatively when it allows for inquiry into situations of uncertainty. A reflection in the context takes the form of a conversation about a conversation.
