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Collective Behaviour: Leadership and Learning in Flocks
A new study has decoded which birds become leaders in homing pigeon flocks, finding an unexpected benefit of leadership: faster birds emerge as leaders, and these leaders learn more about their environment than their followers. Flocks of homing pigeons circling … Continue reading
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Designing Academic Conferences as a Learning Environment
The main aim in organizing academic conferences is to share and develop knowledge in the focus area of the conference. Most conferences, however, are organized in a traditional way: two or three keynote presentations and a series of parallel sessions where participants … Continue reading
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Community learning – Learners survey
Maximise access to community learning for adults, bringing new opportunities and improving lives, whatever people’s circumstances. Promote social renewal by bringing local communities together to experience the joy of learning and the pride that comes with achievement. Maximise the impact … Continue reading
Learning for resilience – Exploring learning opportunities in biosphere reserves
The interdependence of society and nature, the inherent complexity of social–ecological systems, and the global deterioration of ecosystem services provide the rationale for a growing body of literature focusing on social–ecological resilience – the capacity to cope with, adapt to … Continue reading
Promoting and assessing value creation in communities and networks – a conceptual framework
Read This publication is about value creation in communities and networks. It is a foundation paper presenting a framework for promoting and assessing value creation in communities and networks and aims to be sufficiently rigorous for researchers, useful for practitioners … Continue reading
Posted in Community, CoP, Learning, Learning communities, Learning network, Network of practice, Networks
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Critically engaged learning: connecting to young lives
Critically engaged learning This book – the finale in a trilogy by the authors – traces the way in which a number of disadvantaged schools and communities were able to move beyond deficit, victim-blaming and pathologizing approaches and access resources … Continue reading
Social Purpose and Creativity – integrating learning in the real world
Read Professor Mike Neary, in his opening keynote, gave a helpful and thought-provoking exploration of the role and purpose of universities in the modern world and the experience that they offer students in terms of intellectual and social development. He … Continue reading
Posted in Citizenship, Creativity, Learning, University
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Currents of change: Exploring relationships between teaching, learning and development – Participatory and transformative education
“I think participatory education is about transforming people. And transformative education is the process in which we, first of all, challenge power relations in order to create a safe environment so that different voices can emerge and be heard—but we … Continue reading
The role of Dialogue Conferences in the Development of Learning Regions
Read Something very special happens when people from a region come into living contact with each other, face-to-face. In responding not only to each other’s uniqueness, but also to the unique features of their shared surroundings, they create between … Continue reading
Posted in Community development, Conversations, Dialogue, Learning, Participatory methods, Relational
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