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Learning and Knowing in Indigenous Societies todayHome Explore Community Help Sign Up Log In Document Information 4 Reads | 0 Comments The loss of their specialised knowledge of nature is a grave concern for many indigenous communities throughout the world. Education, as it is understood in a Western context, occupies a pivotal ...
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Heuristics and Propositions for Understanding Resilience in Social-Ecological SystemsThis paper is a work-in-progress account of ideas and propositions about resilience in social-ecological systems. It articulates our understanding of how these complex systems change and what determines their ability to absorb disturbances in either their ecological or their social domains. We ...
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Adaptive Capacity and Traps - learning, flexibility, change, adaptation, resilienceAdaptive capacity is the ability of a living system, such as a social–ecological system, to adjust responses to changing internal demands and external drivers. Although adaptive capacity is a frequent topic of study in the resilience literature, there are few formal models. This paper introduces ...
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Resilience - change, self-organization, learning and adaptationEcosystem resilience is the capacity of an ecosystem to tolerate disturbance without collapsing into a qualitatively different state that is controlled by a different set of processes. A resilient ecosystem can withstand shocks and rebuild itself when necessary. Resilience in social systems has ...
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8The Network University? Technology, Culture and Organisational Complexity in Contemporary Higher EducationThe social construction of technology use in education.Giorgio Bertini added 11 months ago
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8The Viable Systems Model Guide 3equoted "The most remarkable story involves the application of the VSM in Chile in 1971. Beer was invited by President Salvador Allende to study the entire social economy and to make changes to the existing systems of organisation. In the 18 months before Pinochet came to power in a bloody coup, ...Giorgio Bertini added 11 months ago
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8Learning to share learning - an exploration of methods to improve and share learningMore on sharing and social learning at Conversations, Learning and Change . Social Learning and Networks . Web for Change .Giorgio Bertini added 12 months ago
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8Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to ScaleNOTE: more resources on emergence and change at the Twines Conversations, Learning and Change . Change Methods and TheoryGiorgio Bertini added 12 months ago
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ScienceDirect - Research Policy : Technology as a complex adaptive system: evidence from patent dataCan be downloaded for free from author's webpages - http://www.people.hbs.edu/lfleming/RP2001.pdf .glennmiles added 12 months ago
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