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- 14:01, 5 May 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+1,184) . . N Education and Values (17) (Created page with 'Education promotes and replicates values. Even when not promoted deliberately, values are communicated. Yet, neither the explicit nor the implicit promulgation of values is typic…')
- 13:59, 5 May 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+1,142) . . N Sense of Struggle (104) (Created page with 'Some of myriad forces in the world are acting to change it for the better while some are acting to perpetuate injustice and privilege. Many of the forces that are the strongest a…')
- 13:58, 5 May 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+1,360) . . N Thinking Communities (118) (Created page with 'Creative thinking is essential for self-realization, and for providing sustainable solutions to the myriad problems of our increasingly complex global society. Three main factors…')
- 13:57, 5 May 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+1,372) . . N Wholesome Design for Wicked Problems (82) (Created page with 'Horst Rittel coined the term "wicked problem" as a corrective to the rationalist approach to planning and design of large-scale systems. This approach can be summarized as the pr…')
- 13:56, 5 May 2011 (diff | hist) . . (-1,245) . . Opportunity Spaces (33)
- 13:56, 5 May 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+892) . . N Community Networks (61) (Created page with 'Communities often lack the information and communication infrastructure needed for two critical functions. The first is supporting and sustaining the social networks of clubs, or…')
- 13:55, 5 May 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+1,177) . . N Civic Capabilities (85) (Created page with 'The path to social and economic empowerment can be blocked due to a variety of circumstances including illiteracy, a lack of information, limited access to health care, few durab…')
- 13:54, 5 May 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+1,185) . . N The Good Life (3) (Created page with 'People who hope for a better world feel the need for a shared vision of the "good life" that is flexible enough for innumerable individual circumstances but comprehensive enough …')
- 13:53, 5 May 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+904) . . N Future Design (88) (Created page with 'By acting as though the future will never arrive and things never change, we are subconsciously creating the future with the seeds that we are sowing today. Whether by actively e…')
- 13:52, 5 May 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+1,235) . . N Collective Decision Making (10) (Created page with 'Divided decision making is a major factor behind the disrupted personal relationships, fragmented communities, atomized specializations, and compartmentalized organizations that …')
- 13:51, 5 May 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+1,346) . . N Whistle Blowing (130) (Created page with 'Corporations may flaunt legal or ethical guidelines by harassing employees, ignoring safety considerations, or dumping toxic chemicals. Governments also engage in transgressions …')
- 13:50, 5 May 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+626) . . N Follow the Money (135) (Created page with '"Deep Throat" was the mysterious character who said "Follow the money!" in All the Presidents Men, a movie about the Watergate scandal in the United States. Following the money i…')
- 13:49, 5 May 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+1,243) . . N Experimental School (89) (Created page with 'Schools can become institutionalized and non-responsive to the real needs of students, faculty members, the community and society. Schools with unchanging assumptions are unlikel…')
- 13:48, 5 May 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+1,194) . . N Service Learning (90) (Created page with 'While community issues — as well as those that exist on larger scales — are frequently not addressed due to lack of resources, higher education in particular is likely to foc…')
- 13:48, 5 May 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+959) . . N Everyday Herorism (116) (Created page with 'In popular media, protagonists are usually richer, stronger, and better looking than "ordinary" people. "Ordinary" people, even if they have names, are turned into stock characte…')
- 13:47, 5 May 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+796) . . N Memory and Responsibility (11) (Created page with 'Although the evils of the past continue to haunt us in the present, society is often unable — or unwilling — to deal with historical injustice. Thus, although specific incide…')
- 13:43, 5 May 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+1,737) . . N Community Inquiry (122) (Created page with 'Communities face a wide variety of challenges in areas of health, education, economic development, sustainable environments, and social order. But regardless of the difficulty of…')
- 13:42, 5 May 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+2,047) . . N Community Animators (102) (Created page with 'Development professionals often find it difficult to adequately assess the broad spectrum of problems a community faces, as well as grasp and utilize the various assets the commu…')
- 13:41, 5 May 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+1,017) . . N Indicators (29) (Created page with 'When people in the community identify Indicators that are important to them, the Indicators are more likely to carry personal and operational meaning than when social scientists …')
- 13:40, 5 May 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+1,362) . . N Social responsibility (8) (Created page with 'Things don't get better by themselves. Without purposeful intervention, organizations of all kinds lose sight of their social responsibilities. Having social benefits as part of …')
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