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Interview with Historian Eric Foner: 'Life Is Getting More Difficult for Americans' - Spiegel OnlineAs Americans prepare to vote, historian Eric Foner speaks to SPIEGEL about the current crisis of confidence in the US, the roots of American exceptionalism and the country's ever-changing concept of freedom.
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American Dream a Biological Impossibility, Neuroscientist Says | Wired Science from Wired.comOur built-in dopamine-reward system makes instant gratification highly desirable, and the future difficult to balance with the present. This worked fine on the savanna, said Whybrow, but not the suburbs: We gorge on fatty foods and use credit cards to buy luxuries we can't actually afford. And ...
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Learning through E-networks and Related M&E IssuesThis paper aims to assess different types of learning that can be mediated by various E-network functions, in order to suggest ways forward for two latinamerican rural networks, Grupo Chorlaví and FIDAMERICA. The main question that we address in this paper is ‘How can regional E-mediated ...
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Accountability - A Guide to Budget Work for NGOs“What brings us together . . . is our belief that people have a right to influence the public choices that shape our lives. Public budgets are the chief instruments by which governments make these decisions, and civil society the greatest tool to ensure that people are part of that process .”
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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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Learning for organisational developmentCountless organisations have experimented with ways to improve their performance through learning since Peter Senge published his trailblazing book The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization in 1990. Although Senge drew mainly on experiences and insights gained in ...
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Radio and political participationOne of the things community radio stations in South Africa are supposed to do, is help support democracy. At Idasa’s Democracy Radio project, we work with community radio stations, helping them to fulfill this function. In doing our work, and in evaluating our ongoing role, we have had to do ...
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Organizing - people, power and change - fullOrganizers identify, recruit and develop leadership; build community around leadership; and build power from that community. Organizers bring people together, challenging them to act on behalf of their shared values and interests. They develop the relationships, motivate the participation, ...
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Kristen Nicole.[http://kristenicole2.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/picture-17.png] If you look at the progression of social norms in the past two centuries, you’ll see a significant lax in the way in which we consider accepted public and private behavior. Chalk it up to the melting pot, which introduced new ...
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Web 2.0 and the changing ways we are using computers for learning: what are the implications for pedagogy and curriculum?John Seely Brown in a speech in 1999, looked at the new dimensions of “learning, working and playing in the digital age”. One dimension he drew attention to was literacy and how it is evolving. The new literacy, the one beyond text and knowledge, he said, is one of information navigation. Linked ...
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