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Creative cities, cultural clusters and local economic development
Creative cities, cultural clusters and local economic development This book analyses the economic development of cities from the ‘cultural economy’ and ‘creative industry’ perspectives, examining and differentiating them as two related but distinct segments of contemporary city economies. The authors … Continue reading
Posted in Community development, Creativity, Development, Economy, Innovation
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Participatory Research and Community Organizing
Read Changing economic and political relations, based on the ownership and control of information technologies and communication, raise important questions for community organizing in an increasingly privatized, postindustrial world of a knowledge society: Who produces knowledge and for whose … Continue reading
The role of Dialogue Conferences in the Development of Learning Regions
Read Something very special happens when people from a region come into living contact with each other, face-to-face. In responding not only to each other’s uniqueness, but also to the unique features of their shared surroundings, they create between … Continue reading
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A democracy we can eat: a livelihoods approach to TVET policy and provision
In Southern Africa, theories of adult education have remained modelled on imported paradigms. The urgency of particularly the first of the Millennium Development Goals, ‘to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger’ generally translates into policy and provision of skills training based … Continue reading
Putting Complexity to Work – Supporting the Practitioners
Read Community Engagement – a Social Ecosystem Dance — Read Peckham Power – can Complexity Tools help us? — Read Embracing Complexity and Innovation to Deliver Business Growth — Read Bridging the gap between Complexity Practitioners and Scientists — Read … Continue reading
Teacher Training for Learning to Live Together – A Training Manual
Read The 21st century is even more overtly political and networked, with global communications meaning that conflicts‘elsewhere’ often play themselves out at home and need to be tackled, but also meaning that networks of individuals, groups and schools can potentially … Continue reading
Rhizome and Central Place Theory
Unplanning has an excellent post that re-introduces Walther Christaller’s venerable Central Place Theory and discusses it continuing role in a low-energy world. The theory, and Unplanner’s post, call into question the validity of a rhizome-lattice structure because such a lattice … Continue reading
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Tagged community development, rhizomatic change, rhizome
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Facilitating Community Building in Learning Networks through Peer Tutoring in Ad-hoc Transient Communities
Learning in a so called Learning Network is particularly attractive to self-directed learners, who themselves decide on their learning program as well as on the timing, pace and place of their studies. However, such learners may easily become isolated, which … Continue reading
Horizontal Learning – Background, Practice and Possibility
Viewer The concept of Horizontal Learning can be explored on two fronts: firstly as part of cultural epistemology and, secondly, as a strategic tool for community development. Horizontal learning practices have come to the fore with the re-emergence and … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative learning, Community development, Educación popular, Learning communities, OEP, OER, Open education, Open learning, Popular education
Tagged community development, horizontal learning, learning communities, OEP, OER, open education, open learning, popular education
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Local Actors in Global Politics
Globalisation and the new ICTS have enabled a variety of local political actors to enter international arenas once exclusive to national states. Multiple types of claim-making and oppositional politics articulate these developments. Going global has been partly facilitated and conditioned … Continue reading
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