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Every Friday I post some links to articles, videos or other resources that have caught my eye during the week. Some might be quite recent, but others might be older ones I have revisited or recently discovered. They will mainly focus on families, community engagement or environmental sustainability, but not necessarily.
Strengths-based approaches
Quit Putting People in Boxes from Leading Differently – an asset-based approach to leadership
Why Positive Education from the International Positive Education Network – should well-being be taught in school?
Families
Private schools show same results as public schools from UQ News
Community engagement
The Small Habit That Could Save the World from Raptitude.com – reconsidering our default attitude towards strangers
Community organising aims to win back civil society’s rightful place by Amanda Tattersall via The Conversation – The Sydney Alliance and community organising
Sustainability
Climate change: Embed the social sciences in climate policy by David Victor via Nature – a call for the IPCC to overhaul how it engages with the social sciences.
One from my vaults
Libraries and community engagement –libraries, asset-based community development and community engagement
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