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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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 […]
Read More...INDIGENOUS SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT: Reducing the dominance of national curricula.
“Traditions are good, but do they really help the pupils become successful?” I got the provocative question from a teacher in an action research and INDIGENOUS school development study. The teacher questioned if Indigenous education, gave pupils the best possibilities to become successful. There is, of course, no simple answer to that question. However, […]
Read More...Learning networks for working-life development programmes
Playing safe or thinking anew in working-life development programmes? Good practices do not easily travel from one workplace to another. Slow diffusion of good practices has proven to be a thorny problem in programmes to reform working life so far even in the Nordic countries with a long history of such efforts. What if we […]
Read More...GCWAL/ALARA Learning for Change and Innovation World Congress is a SUCCESS!
The Global Centre for Work Applied Learning (GCWAL) and ALARA Congress in Adelaide South Australia, was a great success. Over 100 delegates attended the event on 7 – 9 November, with many countries represented, including UK, Israel, South Africa, New Zealand and of course, Australia.
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