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Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves
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Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker SelvesWhy Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves

Working with the Shadow is not working with evil, per se. It is working toward the possibility of greater wholeness. We will never experience healing until we can come to love our unlovable places, for they, too, ask love of us.
How is it that good people do bad things? Why is our personal story and our societal history so bloody, so repetitive, so injurious to self and others? 

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Tags: working, bloody, repetitive, history, societal, People, Selves, Darker, Things, Understanding
i, science: Issue 1
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i, sciencei, science

A SCIENCE MAGAZINE that has absolutely nothing to do with science. This was one of the ideas we touted around in our earlier group meetings before deciding to settle on the current paradigm for I, Science: a magazine that shows science in its societal context. With the possible exception of the metaphorical front cover, everything in this magazine is clearly related to science.
 
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Tags: science, magazine, media, through, pieces, context, societal, shows
The Politics of Partnerships: A Critical Examination of Nonprofit-Business Partnerships
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The Politics of Partnerships: A Critical Examination of Nonprofit-Business PartnershipsThe Politics of Partnerships: A Critical Examination of Nonprofit-Business Partnerships

The widespread partnering phenomenon in the US and the UK spurred a significant amount of literature focusing on its strategic use. The Politics of Partnerships diverges by examining if partnerships can deliver benefits that extend beyond the organisational to the societal level resulting from the intentional combined efforts of the partners.
 
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Tags: Partnerships, Politics, resulting, level, societal, Nonprofit, Business, Examination
Transformation of Knowledge Through Classroom Interaction
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Transformation of Knowledge Through Classroom InteractionClassrooms provide extremely varied settings in which learning may take place, including teacher-led conversations, small group unguided discussions, individual problem solving or computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL).

 Unity comes from the fact that researchers belong to a common adventure - changing school practices and norms. This adventure is moved by societal ideals of reason and equity. Contexts for learning are not immutable givens. Researchers are interested in implementing certain practices or instilling certain norms

 
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Tags: learning, group, problem, practices, solving, adventure, certain, societal