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World-Changing Women: Alexandra Kollontai
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Alexandra Kollontai

...educating women about the new marriage, education, and working laws brought about by the Revolution. However, Kollontai became increasingly critical of the Communist Party and eventually lost political influence. She was appointed to various diplomatic positions from the 1920s, preventing her from influencing policy related to women at home. Kollontai saw marriage and the...
Connecting unseen dots
Education & Development

Connecting unseen dots

...education and Transdisciplinarity, with a particular emphasis on the role of the Arts (Carolyn). During the session we explored definitions of interdisciplinarity as activities which are a little like a stew – you can still identify some of the different ingredients (the disciplines) but they are slightly ‘mushed’ together and collectively create something more than...
Appreciative Inquiry
Education & Development

Appreciative Inquiry

...education. [A circular diagram illustrates the inquiry process, including phases like “Immersing,” “Imagining,” and “Innovating.]Figure 1 The 4D modelShow descriptionA central circle with the words ‘What do we mean by inquiry? A positive core’. four further circles appear, each linked to the positive core. The top one has the words ‘Immersing....
Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda
Society, Politics & Law

Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda

...Opening talks on Thursday 1 November 2012 with the United Nations High Level Panel - Indonesian President Yudhoyono, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Liberian President Johnson Sirleaf. A recent book by interdisciplinary, multi-institution research collaboration from London International Development Centre (entitled Thinking beyond sectors for sustainable...
Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?
Society, Politics & Law

Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?

...Open University, discusses the rhetoric of the EU Referendum. ...[UK and EU flags overlaid] Boris Johnson tells us in his book, The Churchill Factor, that Winston Churchill ‘wrote an article called “A United States of Europe”; indeed, he is credited with coining the phrase’. Well, yes, Churchill did write about this in the News of the World in 1938 and he is...
Methods in Motion: As borders flex, how does citizenship change?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: As borders flex, how does citizenship change?

...education. Yet, the interdisciplinarity of the field, and the variety of ways of looking at citizenship, have also meant that there is no distinct methodological approach to citizenship, and that no single methodological approach can say all that there is to be said about citizenship. What is more, as the day school made clear, methodological approaches to the study of...
Do we really listen to children and young people?
Education & Development

Do we really listen to children and young people?

...Open University’s Children’s Research Centre focuses on different aspects of participation in education, health and social care (for example Kerawalla’s 2014 research exploring participation through inclusive inquiry). Whilst we are fully committed in promoting diverse approaches to participation, we also take a critical approach. As a concept, participation is...
NHS Citizen
Society, Politics & Law

NHS Citizen

...resources we’re developing, but are directly funded by – and answerable to – NHS England.” It was initiated by government, designers & developers, non-governmental organisation/charity and researchers and encourages people to participate through an online platform, a public assembly and special events. NHS Citizen is national in orientation and concerned with...
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