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Outline of a Theory of Practice.
Arthur W. Frank,Pierre Bourdieu +1 more
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Endogenous Development, Social Capital and Social Inclusion: perspectives from leader in the UK
TL;DR: The authors argue that leader-type programmes need to include pro-active action targeted at raising the social and cultural capital of individuals and of disadvantaged groups (either of which happen to be in the area, but not innately defined by the area).
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Body, Image and Affect in Consumer Culture:
TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between body, image and affect within consumer culture is discussed, and the implications of these shifts in consumer culture and new media technologies are discussed through some examples taken from digital video art.
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Education Policy as a Practice of Power Theoretical Tools, Ethnographic Methods, Democratic Options
TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of appropriation is introduced as a form of creative interpretive practice necessarily engaged in by different people involved in the policy process, and a crucial distinction is made between authorized policy and unauthorized or informal policy; it is argued that when nonauthorized policy actors appropriate policy they are in effect often making new policy in situated locales and communities of practice.
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Rescuing gender from the poverty trap
TL;DR: The New Poverty Agenda is seen as incorporating gender within a new broader concept of poverty (Lipton and Maxwell, 1992) capable of measuring, evaluating and redressing gender bias along with poverty-reduction policies based on labor-intensive growth, targeted social services and safety nets as mentioned in this paper.
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The Social Construction of Organizational Learning: Conceptual and Practical Issues in the Field
Davide Nicolini,Martin B. Meznar +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest a broader conceptualization of organizational learning, which is consistent with and integrates diverse perspectives in the field of OL, and conclude that organizational learning can be interpreted as a social construction which transforms acquired cognition into accountable abstract knowledge.