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e-Patients: How they can help us heal healthcareContents of the Wiki version: * Editors' Note and Dedication, * Acknowledgements , * Foreword by Lee Rainie and Susannah Fox , * Preface , * Introduction 1) Hunters and Gatherers of Medical Information, 2) Content, Connectivity, and Communityware, 3) ...
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For-profit activism | Change we can profit from | The EconomistFor-profit activism A start-up inspired by Barack Obama Shopping for a good cause RESIDENTS of San Francisco have been signing up enthusiastically for a new green-energy campaign called 1BOG. Short for “one block off the grid”, it aims to convince homeowners to switch to solar energy one ...
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The Revolution Has Already OccurredBarbara Ehrenreich and Bill Fletcher write mournfully that there was supposed to be a revolution--but there was and is a revolution, just not one that looks the way socialists and a lot of '60s radicals imagined it. The Sandinista revolution thirty years ago may well have been the last of its ...
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Design your own revolutionInnovation was once the work of an individual. Now - from weblogs to mountain bikes - we are inventing the things we want to use. The same spirit is at work in politics. As formal top-down politics has become more professionalised, so grassroots political campaigns by both professional and ...
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Obama will get no warning when the people's response to this crisis comesPresident Barack Obama is popular for now. But his programme for reinvigorating the economy is not. Indeed, it is a sign of the dislocation between politics and everyday life that while the $787bn stimulus package that Obama is expected to sign today is being hailed as a great victory, nobody ...
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Preservation Institute - The Natural Environment: The Social EnvironmentToday, most people recognize that modernization and growth can harm the natural environment. The Preservation Institute believes that modernization also damages the social environment - that many of our social problems are side-effects of modernization and economic growth. To preserve the ...
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Organizing - people, power and changeOrganizers challenge people to act on behalf of their shared values and interests. They lead by developing the relationships, understanding, and actions that enable people to gain new understanding of their interests, new resources, and new capacity to use these resources on behalf of their ...
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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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Inquiry & participation in search of a world worthy of human aspirationIn this Introduction, we draw together some of the major threads that form the diverse practices of action research, to provide a framework through which the reader can approach this volume. We know that our readership is varied. You may be new to action research, wanting to know whether it has ...
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