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Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...educated in this culture that this is the way to tackle complex problems. While this approach is powerful for some problems, it's hopeless for others. For example, it now seems clear that climate change induced by human activity is likely to have major impacts on the planet, its environments, and its living organisms, including people. But all of these effects are so...
Cynorthwywyr addysgu: Cymorth ar waith
Education & Development

Cynorthwywyr addysgu: Cymorth ar waith

...Educational Research Journal, cyf. 25, rhif 2, tt. 245–258. Hancock, R. (2012) ‘The pastoral pedagogy of teaching assistants’, yn Cole, T., Daniels, H. a Visser, J. (gol.) The Routledge International Companion to Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, Llundain, Routledge. Hancock, R. a Colloby, J. (2013) ‘Ten titles and roles’, yn Hancock, R., Collins, J. a...
Herodotus and the invention of history
History & The Arts

Herodotus and the invention of history

...de Dieu by Maître François, between 1475 and 1480 CE. That is not all. This is also a story about Herodotus’ brand of history. At first glance, this episode, on which Herodotus leads on seems curiously trivial, even gossipy. Yet by taking us into the bedroom Herodotus promises insight into power dynamics that have repercussions for an entire kingdom and beyond. Much...
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...education or schooling) leaders are elected by popular vote (the institution of democracy) people with insufficient income receive benefits in cash or kind (the institution of welfare) people have a choice as to how and from whom they obtain goods and services (the institution of the market) although not only characteristic of liberal democracies, wealth is distributed...
Working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Working with charts, graphs and tables

...Education (published weekly on a Tuesday) – you might feel this tends to give an air of authority. The data was taken from a Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) publication, called Excellence in Schools, and published in 1997. Therefore, the UK Government published the data. The data relates to the amount of homework and television that children in their last...
An introduction to social work law
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to social work law

...education in the UK comes the responsibility of a local authority to provide schools and a responsibility placed upon parents to ensure their children attend school. Rights ‘Rights’ is a word that can be used in many ways. Lawyers use it to indicate that a person has a specific entitlement – for example, the right not to be dismissed unfairly from their job, or the...
Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...education system’ or ‘transport system’. This everyday usage can lead to misunderstanding and conflict because different stakeholders will make different boundary judgements based on their different experiences. This is the same as saying that one person’s education system will be different to another’s. Conflict and confusion often arises because of lack of...
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...educates him by trumpet, in barracks, and he betters the instruction. He finds two counties groping to bring coal, or flour, or fish, from the place of production to the place of consumption, and he hits on a railroad. Every master has found his materials collected, and his power lay in his sympathy with his people, and in his love of the materials he wrought in. What an...