We are often asked about our name, knowledge-weave, and what it means.
As an idea, it all started 15-years ago with Jenny’s initial research on how our learning and language experiences – both formal and informal – impact on how we engage with, interpret and use information to make sense of the world around us. Since then, Jenny and the team have focused on how recognising and building thinking skills, and understanding how we produce and use knowledge, and the different ways of seeing the world, has a positive impact on what we know and what we do.
We see this process as a weave. What we see and focus on, the information we gain from our everyday experiences, study, research, our feelings, scrolling on our mobiles, in discussions, on social media is framed, shaped and processed in our minds, to create what we know and drive our behaviours.
To unravel our metaphor – we think of the different information we access from new experiences and our memory as the threads of different colours, textures, strengths. Our patterns are the different ways we frame and shape information as we weave to create knowledge and meaning. The end result is something that is practical, flexible and useful to support our actions at home, work and play.
Having a toolkit of thinking skills helps us to problem solve, drive curiosity and creativity, and supports us to work collaboratively, be more self-aware – and make our actions meaningful.