Reflections on the learning process

By the time the reader has reached this part of the book, it is hoped that a great deal of learning about soft systems methodology has occurred. It is also hoped that the learning will not stop with reading through the book once, but will carry on and encourage the reader as learner to return to it. Soft systems methodology is a framework for understanding a learning process which is iterative in nature, that is, the path of the steps of the methodology can be returned to many times to take the learning journey again. This book is intended to be taken in the same light. The book has taken the reader through a great many new concepts, both in nature and in technique. Concepts do not enter the appreciative act without a continual reflection. It is hoped that the continual process of learning about the methodology in use and in theory will have started by now, but will not finish here. To help that iterative process, this final chapter reflects on the learning process which has been presented in the book.