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Desining an Expert System for Analyzing the Energy Consumption Behavior of Employees in Organizations Using Rough Set Theory [PDF]

Journal of Information Technology Management, 2015
Understanding and changing the energy consumption behavior requires extensive knowledge about the motives of behavior. In this research, Rough Set Theory is used to investigate the energy consumption behavior of employees in organizations.
Tooraj Karimi
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
wiley   +1 more source

Energy Citizenship Contract and European cities transition

Agathón
The latest IPCC reports highlight the slow progress of energy and environmental transition, as well as the limited involvement of citizens in the European Green Deal; however, many cities are divided between the need to accelerate the transition process
Andrea Boeri, Danila Longo, Saveria Olga Murielle Boulanger, Martina Massari   +3 more
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Activism in the arts: Co‐researching cultural inequalities with young people during the COVID‐19 pandemic

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the growing influence of young people's activism in UK museums and its educational implications. It draws on a five‐year collaborative programme (2019–2023) with young people of colour (16–28) in a university museum setting, focusing on a Young Collective established to address cultural inequalities.
Sadia Habib
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding teacher agency in the context of school‐based climate change and sustainability education: A case study of the experiences of teachers and school students in England

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on teacher agency as a conceptual framework, we explored the extent to which school teachers in secondary schools in England achieve agency in relation to teaching climate change and sustainability. This research provides a novel approach to understanding the relational and emergent qualities of teacher agency by bringing together ...
Nicola Walshe, Elizabeth A. C. Rushton
wiley   +1 more source

The Theory and Practice of Corporate Citizenship in Nigeria: A Petroleum Industry Beneficiary Analysis [PDF]

, 2006
With the aid of ethnographic data obtained in Nigeria's oil and gas region (the Niger Delta), and relevant secondary data, this article makes a case for a beneficiary-centred approach to corporate citizenship analysis, and thus urges a shift from the ...
Wilson Akpan
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Smart Cities: Towards a New Citizenship Regime? A Discourse Analysis of the British Smart City Standard [PDF]

, 2017
Growing practice interest in smart cities has led to calls for a less technology-oriented and more citizen-centric approach. In response, this articles investigates the citizenship mode promulgated by the smart city standard of the British Standards ...
A. M. Townsend, Baccarne B., Barber B., BIS, BSI, BSI-PAS180, BSI-PAS181, BSI-PAS182, BSI-PD8100, BSI-PD8101, BSI-RoS, Caprotti F., Dryzek J. S., Evans J., Gargiulo Morelli V., Graham S., Greenfield A., Healey P., Innes J. E., Jenson J., Jenson J., Joss S., Joss S., Kartal F., Machin A., Matravers D., Matthew Cook, McLoughlin B., Ministry of Urban Development, Moir E., Mouffe C., Parekh B., Saunders T., Simon Joss, Taylor Buck N., TSB, US Department of Transportation, Youri Dayot   +37 more
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More than money? An empirical investigation of socio-psychological drivers of financial citizen participation in the German energy transition

Cogent Economics & Finance, 2020
While financial citizen participation plays an increasing role in renewable energy, there is a lack of understanding which socio-psychological factors correlate with a decision to privately invest in renewable energy.
Dominik L. Schall
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Indonesian inquiry: A narrative of biocultural teaching on Sulawesi Utara

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Using phenomenology, narrative inquiry and autoethnographic approaches, this study analyses a program of faculty development conducted alongside the delivery of an international field school. Through this study, we explore the value and benefits of inter‐cultural field programming and how these might serve to complement or to redress ...
David Zandvliet, Wiske Rotinsulu
wiley   +1 more source

Learning to explain environmental crises: A dialogic analysis of teacher professional learning between Chile and the United States

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Many studies and initiatives are animated by the potential for science education to intervene in the climate crisis and crises of environmental degradation and disinformation. For science teachers to learn to address these issues in their classes, their teaching must expand beyond scientific facts and face controversial social aspects. Dealing
Valeria M. Cabello, Alejandra Frausto Aceves, Daniel Morales‐Doyle   +2 more
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