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How is Italy reinventing the co-op?
Money & Business

How is Italy reinventing the co-op?

...write Michael Lewis and Pat Conaty in The Resilient Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady State Economy. “The vision that emerged was of care organizations actively supported and governed by the stakeholders—that is, the users of services, the families of people receiving care, the paid staff and the volunteers.” “Bureaucratic welfare services were...
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A gift of life at the end of life
Health, Sports & Psychology

A gift of life at the end of life

...writing letter to donor families and recipients Order of St John UK award Donor family network Organisations that provide bereavement support: Cruse bereavement support Compassionate friends supporting bereaved parents and families Child bereavement UK. Key sources NHS Blood and Transplant website The Organ donation law in parts of the UK The family remains at the centre...
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A brief history of the lens
Society, Politics & Law

A brief history of the lens

...writing the light’. This is how we're able to share a view through a lens. Since the first photographs, the technology for keeping images seen through a lens has moved from chemical to electrical, but the questions about how we interpret images are, if anything, becoming more complex to answer. ...it has taken hundreds of years to move from seeing through a lens to...
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Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...writing from an educational research perspective, suggest that spirituality is innate in children. The features they identify in children's spirituality are presented by Margaret Crompton as: sensing a changed quality in awareness; sensing values, ideas about good and evil or what matters; sensing mystery, wonder and awe; sensing meaning or insight or connectedness. This...
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Managing Relationships and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing Relationships and Work

...writing and speaking – i.e., communicating – clearly and effectively sustain and support rewarding and productive relationships. Conflict, which may arise due to a mismatch between the short- or long-term goals of the partners, can be resolved or managed by appropriate communication mechanisms. World events of 2020/21 have severely limited face-to-face communication...
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Closing the awarding gap: practical actions to support Black and minority ethnic students
Education & Development

Closing the awarding gap: practical actions to support Black and minority ethnic students

...writing, learning diaries). Provide exemplars, marking guidance, or previously graded assessments to help students understand what good work looks like. Explicitly show how strong assignments map onto the marking criteria (e.g. what counts as ‘analysis’?, what does ‘relevance’ look like?). Signpost when students should begin preparing for assessments, particularly...
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Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies
Money & Business

Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies

...Writing in 2000, the influential Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano coined the concept of ‘coloniality of power’ in order to convey the idea that the empire building allowed Western countries to create long-lasting asymmetries of power over the rest of the world based on the idea that European cultures and races were inherently superior to non-European ones....
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Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking
Education & Development

Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking

...writings that show the value of personal experiences. This has given me legitimacy to draw on my South Asian Indian heritage and value the fashions that my family has worn, such as my mother’s saris, valuing Indian clothing as a legitimate source of fashion knowledge, rather being used as a superficial motif or tokenistic symbol for design appropriation. I now teach...
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