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The Great Transition: Navigating Social, Economic, Ecological Change in Turbulent Times
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2009-10)Trans-disciplinary thinking by evolutionary, social, and ecological economists from the mid-1970s pointed to a new paradigm from which working models are emerging. This paper illustrates their relevance to a context where ... -
Growth and Regional Trade in Africa: Some Empirical Evidence
(2013-07-09)The formation of regional trade agreements among countries at different levels of economic development poses the question of whether the composition of trade, rather than trade itself, is relevant for growth (Splimbergo, ... -
Growth Model for Academic Program Life Cycles: A Theoretical & Empirical Analysis
(2010-08-04)Academic program life cycle concept states that each program’s life flows through several stages: development, introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. A mixed-influence diffusion growth model is fitted to enrollment ... -
Growth With Equity: Research Reports Best Practice In The USA
(Making Waves, 2000)Excerpts from "From the Bottom Up: Toward a Strategy for Income and Employment Generation Among the Disadvantaged" (Aspen Institute, 1993) came out about the same time as people in Canada were beginning to organize around ... -
Gurus, Globalization, and Hinduism
(2011-03-29)This talk will focus on the pivotal role that Hindu spiritual leaders (gurus) have play in spreading Hinduism beyond the borders of South Asia by outlining the reasons for their movements overseas and the means by which ... -
Harvestmen of Canada
(2010-06-23)Harvestmen are the third largest Order of Arachnida. Biological information, other than morphology used for taxonomy, is very limited. Canada has at least 43 species, mostly Euponi (Caddidae 3, Phalangiidae 12, Sclerosomatidae ... -
Have We Got an Adult Education Model for PLAR? Paper presentation at the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASE) Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, May 31 - June 3, 2008
(2008-12-16)Introduction and problem Having recently reviewed the edited collection by Per Anderson and Judy Harris Re-theorising the Recognition of Prior Learning (2006, Leicester, UK: NIACE) I was left wondering what specifically ... -
Healing Water, Healing Histories: Aboriginal Pilgrimage in Western Canada
(2010-06-23)Travel is a medium of communicating information and experience across time and space; aboriginal tourism involves consumption of sacred sites, traditions and contemporary cultures by outsiders. While much research addresses ... -
The Heart of the Matter: Connecting with Clients on Antidepressants
(2010-06-23)This presentation is specifically intended for all counselors, in all practice setting, that work with depressed clients who take antidepressant medication or are potential candidates for this type of medication. However, ... -
A Hermeneutic Study of Lived Hope among Older Adults Using Photography as Interview Prompt
(2009-10-21)PURPOSE Aging around the world is a topic that has received increasing attention over the past decade. As life expectancies increase, efforts are being directed towards understanding and facilitating successful aging. A ... -
Hollywood North: producing a video at Athabasca University
(2011-03-09)Dr. Robert Holmberg, Biology Professor, Centre for Science, along with Ian Grivois, Visual Designer, Educational Media Development, and Blaise Mac Mullin, Photographer/Videographer, Public Affairs, microscopy for biology ... -
The Home Office: Dream, Reality, and In-Between”
(2010-06-23)With rapid advances in information and telecommunication technologies, home-based telecommuting has become quite popular in recent years, especially among knowledge workers. Proponents claim several benefits for the ... -
Hope and Aging: Hermeneutic Photography as Qualitative Evidence
(2010-06-23)AIMS: Aging successfully is a topic that has been targeted in recent years. Given the increased life expectancies developing countries, and the graying of the population, increased efforts are being directed at what it ... -
Hope in Day to Day Living of Residents in Long-term Care
(2013-03-07)A project designed to focus on hope for residents was implemented in an ongoing support group in a long-term care facility in Western Canada. Because seniors frequently enter a care center when there has been a decline in ... -
Housing and Human Services in the Social Economy - A Literature Review for BALTA Social Economy Research Cluster 1
(2009-03-07)One of the first steps in any research process is to undertake a thorough review of the existing literature in a particular area in order to understand the field of knowledge that is being drawn from and built upon. In ... -
Housing of Immigrants: Some Psychological Issues
(2011-06-29)International migration is a common phenomenon. The housing of an immigrant’s host society can be very different from that of the society of origin. As new immigrants’ experiences of and expectation about housing (e.g., ... -
How Germany's State Development Bank Finances Energy Transition
(2016-05-24)In recognition of the long term consequences of relying on a fossil fuel economy, the German government launched a national plan in 2010 to transition away from non-renewable energy sources. The German state development ... -
IABC Social Media Conference
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If you Are What You Eat, Souldn't you Know What Is Inside That Package and Where It Comes From?
(2011-03-29)This presentation examines national and international political struggles over food labeling, food scares, concerns about climate change and sustainable food production have increased public concern about food regulations ... -
“Implement and Deploy Mobile Learning in Open Universities-The Many Promises and Challenges Ahead,” presented at the E-Learn 2008 World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education Conference, November 17-21, 2008, Las Vegas, NV
(2009-01-20)Learn anywhere at anytime! This was once a dream but now the advancement of technology in computing and communication is making it a reality. In this paper, we are going to present frameworks for the implementation and ...