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Charles Leadbeater on Innovation - VideoCharles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and ...
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The Edgeless University: why higher education must embrace technologyTechnology is at the heart of this story of institutional change. Universities are now just one source among many for ideas, knowledge and innovation. That seems to threaten their core position and role, but in this new world of learning and research, there are also great opportunities. The ...
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Whose crisis?We’ve heard a lot on the global financial crisis of panic in terms of banks and bankers, policy makers and the media. Some greater attention to poverty and social impacts of the crisis is needed. As the agenda for the G20 in London gets narrowly focused on financial regulation, we need to ask ...
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Coy village tells Google Street View 'spy' to beat a retreat.Coy village tells Google Street View 'spy' to beat a retreat Any villains inspired to check Google Street View to see whether a personal visit to the Buckinghamshire village of Broughton might be profitable, have been confounded. The residents formed a human hoarding to block the camera's ...
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A Pandemic of Economic Violence. Will Economic Brushfires Prove Too Virulent to Contain?The global economic meltdown has already caused bank failures, bankruptcies, plant closings, and foreclosures and will, in the coming year, leave many tens of millions unemployed across the planet. But another perilous consequence of the crash of 2008 has only recently made its appearance: ...
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AccountabilityHolding those in power accountable is quite a challenge especially in societies characterised by authoritarian styles of governance. Many civil society organisations around the world have started monitoring and trying to influence government budget policies in order to ensure public spending ...
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Networks and partnershipsLike organisations, networks come in different shapes and sizes. At one extreme, they are informal, loosely structured communities of practice, with a shared leadership or none at all. At the other, they have a secretariat, a recognised leader and a clear agenda. The form of a network can evolve ...
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Reclaiming our right to power: some conditions for deliberative democracyDeliberative and inclusive processes (DIPs) are increasingly being used in the North and the South to give the historically excluded a voice in decisions. Some of these methods and processes include citizens’ juries, consensus conferences, scenario workshops, multi-criteria mapping, ...
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Citizenship, technology and learningIt is clear that schools and teachers can use information and communications technology ( ICT) to achieve the aims of understanding, enquiry and participation. Yet it is also clear that ICT can be (and is currently being) used to support only limited forms of citizenship education . From this ...
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Leadership Redefined: An Evocative Context for Teacher LeadershipHumans yearn for vitality, for purpose. Teachers who attain such vitality are energized by their own curiosities, their colleagues and their students. They find joy and stimulation in the daily dilemmas of teaching and are intrigued by the challenge of school improvement in adult communities. ...
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