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Category Archives: Participation
Local Democracy, Rural Community, and Participatory School Governance
Read This article considers the indigenization of democracy by conceptualizing participatory deliberative decision-making practice as a tool to strengthen the functioning of local schools and to enhance democratic responsiveness within communities. Drawing on case-studies of bottom-up approaches to school governance, … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Change methods, Community, Democracy, Participation, Poverty, Power, Schools
Tagged communities, participation, schools
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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
Governance, Complexity and Democratic Participation
Read This article applies complexity theory to urban governance. It is argued that expert-based, hierarchical-instrumental policy making encounters insurmountable obstacles in modern liberal democracies. One of the root causes of this erosion of output legitimacy is the complexity of social … Continue reading
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture – Media Education for the 21st Century
Read According to a recent study from the Pew Internet & American Life project, more than one-half of all teens have created media content, and roughly one-third of teens who use the Internet have shared content they produced. In many … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Digital literacies, Internet, Participation, Social media, Youth
Tagged e-participation, ict, new media, participation, youth
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Currents of change: Exploring relationships between teaching, learning and development – Participatory and transformative education
Read “I think participatory education is about transforming people. And transformative education is the process in which we, first of all, challenge power relations in order to create a safe environment so that different voices can emerge and be heard—but … Continue reading
Change projects – Which sounds more like your projects?
Viking ships Changes ultimately come to life through the individuals who have to do their jobs differently as a result of a project or initiative. Whether the project involves a process impacting 15 people, a new technology impacting 150 … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Change agents, Change management, Leadership, Participation
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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
Open Source Democracy
Open Source Democracy: Can collective intelligence, mass collaboration, and large-scale problem solving using open architectures redefine democratic engagement in the 21st Century? Mark Tovey, Michael Nielsen and Hassan Masum will join WICI in exploring the possibilities that information and communication … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, Open source, Participation, Self-organization
Tagged democracy, open source, self-organization
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