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“They say we're a rights‐respecting school but nobody knows what that really means”: Children's rights implementation in a Scottish secondary school

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Education has been an enduring feature of international human rights law since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and is the only human right that is compulsory for children. Appearing in all major human rights treaties, including the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, education is multidimensional and a multiplier of ...
Amy Hanna
wiley   +1 more source

Getting off the carousel : Exploring the wicked problem of curriculum reform [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Acknowledgements The authors wish to thank all participants in this study. Our thanks to the School of Medicine where this study was undertaken for supporting LH’s doctoral research program.
Cleland, Jennifer   +2 more
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Institutional conditions and social innovations in emerging economies: insights from Mexican enterprises’ initiatives for protecting/preventing the effect of violent events [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Latin-American countries are characterised by societal problems like violence, crime, corruption, the informality that influence any entrepreneurial activity developed by individuals/organisations. Social innovations literature confront “wicked problems”
Guerrero, Maribel, Urbano, David
core   +2 more sources

Back to Nature or Technology to the Rescue? Climate Managers' Preferences for Investment in Carbon Dioxide Removal

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms are increasingly looking into carbon dioxide removal (CDR), a set of options to take past emissions of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. Often two basic categories of CDR are distinguished: nature‐based solutions, such as planting trees or restoring wetlands, and technology‐based solutions, such as various forms of carbon capture ...
Sabrina Mili   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tame, Wicked, and Aporetic Problems in Design

open access: yesShe Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics and Innovation
The article elucidates a type of problem Rittel and Webber did not acknowledge. The underlying assumption about tame and wicked problems is that they are mutually exclusive (any problem can be either wicked or tame but cannot be both or partially wicked ...
Aleksandar Kostić
doaj   +1 more source

Wicked Problems Through a New Lens: Combining Active Learning Strategies for Solutions-Oriented Teaching

open access: yesJournal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
: Wicked problems are large, complex problems involving multiple perspectives that present substantial future challenges. These challenges can be overwhelming for learners and pose difficulties in teaching for instructors.
Katherine Elizabeth Bishop-Williams
doaj   +1 more source

HRBA: wicked problems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In implementing the Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA) in fisheries, the roles of different players need to be judiciously factored in to ensure a level playing ...
Jentoft, Svein
core  

Market and Nonmarket Strategies in Focus: How Entrepreneurs Tackling the Grand Challenge of Waste Management Navigate Institutional and Market Adversity in Ghana

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Waste management remains a critical grand challenge in African countries. While entrepreneurship has been a viable strategy for addressing this challenge, it is fraught with constraints. This study investigates the strategies orchestrated by entrepreneurs to navigate adversity in Waste management and ensure the social and economic viability of
Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wicked Solutions for Wicked Problems

open access: yesJournal of Systems Thinking
“Wicked problems” are often thought of as a situation that should not exist or an inescapable consequence of complex systems. This paper argues for a paradigm shift in instead understanding wicked problems as feedback from the system (i.e., the real world), resulting from a misalignment between our mental model of the system and the system itself ...
Natasha Steinhall   +7 more
openaire   +1 more source

The EU Cities Mission: A Governance Innovation for Stockholm?

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Acknowledging that cities play a key role in climate change mitigation, the European Union (EU) launched the Cities Mission in 2021 to accelerate urban climate action. Intended as a governance innovation, it seeks to stimulate mission‐oriented governance in cities.
Lisa Sanderink   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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