Title: Critical systems thinking for citizens
First published: 1996
Description: [Author's abstract] If Critical Systems Thinking is to contribute to enlightened 
societal practice, e.g. with respect to the pressing environmental and societal 
issues of our time, it should be accessible not only to well-trained 
decision-takers and academics but also to a majority of citizens. The point is 
not that Critical Systems Thinking ought to take an advocacy stance but 
rather, that it has a potential to give new meaning to the concept of 
citizenship; it might enable all of us to become more responsible citizens. My 
question is, how can we harvest this potential? I propose that the way in 
which we seek to answer this question might constitute an important test for 
the methodological viability and validity of Critical Systems Thinking.
Subjects: Citizenship, professionals, critical thinking, critical competence, pragmatisation of critical systems thinking