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A review of Lifescaping Practices in School Communities: Implementing Action Research and Appreciative Inquiry. By Rolla E. Lewis & Peg Winkelman, Routledge.

Lifescaping Practices in School Communities

Kenneth Gergen exclaims in the Foreword, “Here Rolla Lewis, Peg Winkelman, and their associates confront the emerging condition with creative daring. They offer… a rational for new forms of action, a new range of challenging practices, and useful applications of their orientation in action…. My deepest hope is that what they share within this work […]

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Easing stress in residential care with older people

Having a troubled conscience is stressful. This kind of stress seriously influences care providers ability to offer good care. So it’s important to take measures to address, and relieve but preferably prevent this kind of stress. We did our participatory action research in the context of  residential care for older people. We found that using a shared problem processing […]

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Transformation 2017. Aug/Sep Conference on Actioning Climate Change Scholarship

Climate Change TRANSFORMATIONS IN PRACTICE Where: Dundee, Scotland When: Aug 28-Sep 2, 2017 The overarching theme of this conference is ‘sustainability transformations in practice’. Important advances about transformation across different disciplines are already emerging, such as from the arts, humanities, social science and different scientific fields, including social-ecological resilience research, social-technological transitions research, development studies, […]

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Program Evaluation in an Aquatic Agricultural System

Many rural poor and marginalized people strive to make a living in social-ecological systems that are characterized by multiple and often inequitable interactions. Uncertainty and inequality in such systems require research and development interventions to be adaptive. Complexity-aware approaches to planning, monitoring and evaluating development interventions are gaining strength, yet, there is still little empirical […]

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