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Daily Archives: February 27, 2011
The Complexity of Change
Read Most critical of these issues is the recognition that change is embodied in a clear sequence of stages, and that for meaningful change to stick, you can expect to go through all these stages in turn. Deep change will … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Change methods, Complexity, Complexity & change
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Perspectives on Organizational Change – Systems and Complexity Theories
Read It is becoming increasingly important for organizations to gain competitive advantage by being able to manage and survive change. This paper presents two theoretical paradigms (systems and complexity theories) through which organizational change processes can be fruitfully examined. Systems … Continue reading
Culture and Complexity: New Insights on Organisational Change
The focus of organisational change interventions moves away from ‘planning change’ and onto ‘facilitating emergence’. Most change agents seem to have a much more mechanical view of themselves—how can you be a good consultant, how can you re-engineer or fix … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Change methods, Complexity, Complexity & change, Culture, Organizational change
Tagged change, complexity, culture, organizational change
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Popular representations of the Working Class – contested Identities and Social Change
Read This review critically explores media representations of working class people and working class lives. Drawing on various studies, as well as other examples from different forms of media, it argues firstly that there is prevalence of derogatory images which … Continue reading
Posted in Identity, Social change, Social class, Workers, Working class
Tagged social change, social class, workers, working class
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Experiencias y Metodología de la Investigación Participativa
Read El potencial de la investigación participativa apunta a la producción de conocimiento, articulando de manera crítica los aportes de la ciencia y del saber popular, con el fin de reorientarlos hacia la acción transformadora de la realidad. A través … Continue reading
Identity, Communities and Citizenship
Read 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. … 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
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Analysis of complex networks: from biology to linguistics
Read Read also: Graph Theory and Complex Networks Structural Analysis of Complex Networks Mathematical problems such as graph theory problems are of increasing importance for the analysis of modelling data in biomedical research such as in systems biology, neuronal network … Continue reading
From Dictatorship to Democracy – A Conceptual Framework for Liberation
One of my major concerns for many years has been how people could prevent and destroy dictatorships. The sense of pathos and outrage against the brutalities, along with admiration of the calm heroism of unbelievably brave men and women, were … Continue reading
The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
Read Throughout history civilization has been shaped by war. Now, after a century of unprecedented devastation, it seems humankind is preparing to embark on another cycle of violence. Are we condemned to be in a state of perpetual warfare? In … Continue reading
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Tagged nonviolence, people, power
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