Contributor — Kara Dawson is professor of educational technology in the School of Teaching and Learning at the University of Florida and holds the Irvin and Rose Fien Scholarship in the College...
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Blog — ...complex issues, generate innovative solutions, inspire collective or individual action, and, finally, build civic capacity. Build a social economy Many communities have chosen to intervene in the economic structures...
Blog — ...and business to account—especially when it comes to the big, complicated investigative stories that just can’t be done by local broadcast media, or clickbait-oriented web sites.” –Jon Kay. J-Source: “While...
Blog — ...thinning it out so it can breathe and grow, just as the urban gardener separates the rhizomes of iris. Gophers store their seed underground, and in the event of a...
Blog — ...help you determine whether you have a wicked problem (come on, don’t we all?) and how public deliberation can help. You have a wicked problem if the problem is as...
Blog — ...who are interested in understanding why injuries happen and what can be done to prevent these injuries. Q: Your book is unique in its argument that the conflicting interests...
Blog — ...to others and to ideas that scare us by reading difficult texts. In elegant and compelling prose, Conway introduces readers to the idea that it is through uncertainty that we...
Blog — ...issues that seven calls to action in the area of health. The commission asked the federal government of Canada to “identify and close the gaps in health outcomes between Aboriginal...
Blog — ...is largely inspired by Northrop Frye’s argument that “poetry can only be made out of other poems.” In a post for 49th Shelf, McCutcheon elaborates on some key Canadian sources...
Blog — ...is simple. AU is dedicated to removing barriers that restrict access and success in university-level study and it focuses on four key principles to achieve that lofty goal—openness, flexibility, innovation,...