Tag Archives: development

Critical gender studies and international development studies: interdisciplinarity and inclusion

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Giorgio Bertini

Critical gender studies and international development studies are both interdisciplinary, but intellectual agility can ensure they are inclusive sites of knowledge production. To develop intellectual agility, which underpins progressive interdisciplinarity, students must paradoxically venture into more closely defined disciplinary traditions … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, Gender | Tagged development, gender | Comments Off

Implications of adopting a Complexity Framework for Development

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read Read also: Complexity – an appropriate Framework for Development ? Formal recognition of development as a complex adaptive process confers two key benefits. Firstly, it presents a theoretical synthesis to guide the current strands of change into a more … Continue reading →

Posted in Change, Complexity, Development | Tagged change, complexity, development | Leave a comment

Currents of change: Exploring relationships between teaching, learning and development – Participatory and transformative education

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

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 →

Posted in Action research, Learning, Participation, Social change, Social innovation, Social learning, Teaching | Tagged action learning, action research, development, Learning, participation, social innovation, social learning, teaching | Leave a comment

Supportive systems for continuous and online professional development

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Giorgio Bertini

Read We highlight four differences between formal educational systems and supportive systems which have to be taken into account in order to design a system rooted in online environments and social media. These differences are: 1) from pre-produced to … Continue reading →