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Building Community Resilience to Disasters
Read Community resilience, or the sustained ability of a community to withstand and recover from adversity (e.g., economic stress, inluenza pandemic, man-made or natural disasters) has become a key policy issue, which is being embraced at federal, state, and local … Continue reading
Changing School-Community relations through Participatory Research – Strategies from First Nations and Teachers
Read A crucial aspect of the National Indian Brotherhood’s call for First Nations control of First Nations education was its significant recognition of parental responsibility in the educational decision-making process. The relationship between the school and the community has been … Continue reading
Local Democracy, Rural Community, and Participatory School Governance
Read This article considers the indigenization of democracy by conceptualizing participatory deliberative decision-making practice as a tool to strengthen the functioning of local schools and to enhance democratic responsiveness within communities. Drawing on case-studies of bottom-up approaches to school governance, … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Change methods, Community, Democracy, Participation, Poverty, Power, Schools
Tagged communities, participation, schools
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Identity, Communities and Citizenship
This Report addresses three overlapping and interlocking domains; identity, community and citizenship. The Challenge will also explore the intersection of identity and community, and identity and citizenship, and the ways in which changing technologies are likely to impact all. Common … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Citizenship, Collaboration, Communication, Community, Engagement, Future learning, ICT technologies, Identity
Tagged citizenship, communities, future learning, identity
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Communities and Citizenship – paths for engagement
Read This paper deals with current issues in the constitution and maintenance of communities and the effect on notions of citizenship and public engagement. This review looks at a number of studies concerned with the building of communities and the … Continue reading
Posted in Citizenship, Community, Engagement
Tagged citizenship, communities, engagement
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Governance of online creation communities – Provision of platforms of participation for the building of digital commons
This paper is dedicated to the analysis of the governance of online creation communities. Two components can be distinguished in online creation communities: a platform of participation around which the community is generated and the providers of such a platform. … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Governance, Internet, Social change, Social movements
Tagged communities, governance, internet, social change, social movements
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University Education for Community and Social Change
Read Despite the growing consensus on the critical importance of grassroots organizations, and despite this major investment and growth, the field of community and social change faces a mounting crisis of leadership. There is a severe shortage of people who … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Community, Community organizing, Education, Leadership, Social change, University
Tagged change, communities, leadership, social, university
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Informing Communities – Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age
Read Technologies for acquiring and disseminating news and information are changing rapidly. Emerging media have become amazing forces for enabling people to connect. But their full potential is not yet realized in the service of geographic communities, the physical places … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Democracy, Digital age, Digital literacies, Information, Social movements
Tagged communities, digital literacy, ICT, information
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Ad-hoc Transient Communities – Towards Fostering Knowledge sharing in Learning Networks
Read (Download – at Viewer, change View) To enhance users’ social embedding within learning networks, we propose to establish ad-hoc transient communities. These communities serve a particular goal, exist for a limited period of time and operate according to specific … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Knowledge sharing, Learning network
Tagged communities, knowledge sharing, learning networks
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Discussions on Learning in Online Networks and Communities
This report brings together the main messages from a workshop held to validate the results of a study on ‘Innovations in new ICT-facilitated Learning Communities’. A large and an increasing number of people live in an environment where informal digital … Continue reading
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Tagged communities, learning, networks, online
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