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A critical assessment of the wicked problem concept: relevance and usefulness for policy science and practice

open access: yesPolicy & Society, 2019
The concept of wicked problems has served as an inspiration for research in a variety of research fields but has also contributed to conceptual confusion through the various ways in which it has been defined and used.
Catrien J.A.M Termeer   +2 more
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Tackling the Wicked Problem of Measuring What Matters: Framing the Questions

open access: yesECNU Review of Education, 2019
Purpose: Making policy makers, researcher, education leaders, and assessment developers aware that what matters in education assessment is a wicked problem that cannot be easily solved following traditional approaches.
Yong Zhao   +3 more
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Forty years of wicked problems literature: forging closer links to policy studies

open access: yesPolicy & Society, 2019
Rittel and Webber boldly challenged the conventional assumption that ‘scientific’ approaches to social policy and planning provide the most reliable guidance for practitioners and researchers who are addressing complex, and contested, social problems ...
Brian W. Head
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Framing the UK’s counter-terrorism policy within the context of a wicked problem [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Terrorist attacks can be seen as the ultimate wicked problem. After 9/11, terrorists moved from so-called ‘spectacular’ events to relatively low-intensity attacks against individuals and groups. The emergence of what has become known as the ‘home-grown’
Fischbacher-Smith, Denis
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The role of ideations in de-problematizing migration crises (and other wicked problems)

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science, 2023
This article examines the role of ideations in the de-problematization process of the governance of “migration crises”. Ideations, for example, in the form of frames often simplify social reality and do not allow us to understand the nature of a problem ...
Benjamin Klasche
doaj   +1 more source

Wicked problems and a ‘wicked’ solution [PDF]

open access: yesGlobalization and Health, 2018
'Wicked' is the term used to describe some of the most challenging and complex issues of our time, many of which threaten human health. Climate change, biodiversity loss, persisting poverty, the advancing obesity epidemic, and food insecurity are all examples of such wicked problems.
openaire   +4 more sources

Intelligent modes of imperfect governance

open access: yesPolicy & Society, 2019
In this article, we aim to show that the treatment of wicked problems in the literature on public administration approaches is inadequate. We briefly discuss the literature on wicked problems and propose a conceptualization of wicked problems that, we ...
Duco Bannink, Willem Trommel
doaj   +1 more source

Wicked problems i lärande för hållbar utveckling – Vägledning för att ta fram exempel och problembeskrivningar

open access: yesHögre Utbildning, 2021
Högre utbildning ska integrera hållbarhetsperspektiv, men många lärare upplever att de inte har tillräcklig kompetens eller tillgång till lämpliga pedagogiska verktyg.
Johanna Lönngren
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Role of Empathy in Engineering Education and Practice in North America

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2022
Does engineering design education in North America prepare students to address the major issues of our time? In today’s political and social climate, engineers are part of multi-disciplinary teams tasked with finding solutions to complex issues like ...
Eric Wilson, Phalguni Mukhopadhyaya
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Harnessing Wicked Problems in Multi-stakeholder Partnerships [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Despite the burgeoning literature on the governance and impact of cross-sector partnerships in the past two decades, the debate on how and when these collaborative arrangements address globally relevant problems and contribute to systemic change ...
A Offermans   +104 more
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