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Road to Mobile Learning
(2012-01-24)To meet the needs of students, and fulfill Athabasca University’s mission to remove barriers to learning, Athabasca University (AU) Library has initiated a number of mobile learning projects. The poster “Road to Mobile ... -
Role of Faith Based Organizations in the Social Economy BALTA Research Project A4
(2009-02-19)This research project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) has the goal of documenting the role faith-based organizations play in the social economy in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, and ... -
Role of Faith Based Organizations in the Social Economy: Phase II - The Role of Catholic Religious Orders and the Mennonite Community
(2010-08-13)This proposal/plan document outlines a research project of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). This is a second phase of research, following up on BALTA Project A4 completed in 2009. It continues the ... -
Role of the Online Learner: A Comprehensive Model Put Forward
(2011-03-09)Dr. Federico Borges, Professor of English at UOC, and Visiting Researcher at AU, has focused his research on the online learner as a key—and at times disregarded—element in e-learning. Dr. Borges will explain The Role of ... -
The Root of the Matter: Insiders Guide to Community Renewal #1
(Making Waves, 2004)A graphic history of Community Renewal that discusses how the economy became separated from society, and what we can do about it. -
Rural Paradox; The agricultural land trust looks tailor-made for CED. But is it?
(Making Waves, 2006)In the agricultural land trust, rural Canada has at hand a useful structure for defending small-scale farming from industrial agriculture. But trusts will not get to square one until farmers themselves start to question ... -
Rural Sociological Barriers to Adoption of Conservation and Food safety in Rural Alberta
(2007-08-28)This project was premised on the belief that adoption of conservation and food safety beneficial management practices is affected not only by economic factors, but also by a host of other socio-psychological variables. ... -
Scaling the pinnacle of art: learning vacations in Banff National Park, 1940s-1950s
(2009-04-17)Typically targeted to well-educated, middle class older travellers, the market for learning tourism in Canada has grown significantly in recent years. Operators and conservation agencies in Banff National Park have expressed ... -
Scaling Up Local Food
(i4 e-magazine, Canadian Centre for Community Renewal, 2010-11-20)The key challenge facing local food initiatives is how to scale up to the point of transforming (rather than merely “informing”) the much larger conventional food system. This article, based on research by the BC-Alberta ... -
Scaling Up: The Convergence of Social Economy and Sustainability - Sellsheet
(2016-04-11)The book presented in this sellsheet and recently published by Athabasca University Press examines the potential of the social economy to transform the systems that make our current ways of life unsustainable. The book ... -
Sea Songs from Two Oceans: A Comparative Analysis of Maritime Songs from the Coasts of Yorkshire and British Columbia
(2010-09-21)Yorkshire folksong collector Frank Kidson did most of his fieldwork during the last two decades of the Victorian era. The fruits of his labours during the 1880s found expression in his pioneering collection Traditional ... -
Sea Songs from Two Oceans: A Comparative Analysis of Maritime Songs from the Coasts of Yorkshire and British Columbia
(2011-03-30)Yorkshire folksong collector Frank Kidson did most of his fieldwork during the last two decades of the Victorian era. The fruits of his labours during the 1880s found expression in his pioneering collection Traditional ... -
Seasonal Variation in Sexual Segregation in spider Monkeys (Ateles GeoffroyI Yucatanensis) at Runaway Creek Nature Preserve Belize
(2011-11-02)Sexual segregation, the separation of males and females socially or by habitat, has been recognized as a dimension of the socio-ecology of many vertebrates, but has not been quantified or systematically examined in primates. ... -
Sectoral Strategies in CED: Critical factors in the success of CHCA & Childspace
(Making Waves, 2003)Scale and markets notwithstanding, Cooperative Home Care Associates (New York City) and Childspace Day Care Centers (Philadelphia) have plenty to teach Canada's co-operators and other CED activists. Kreiner challenges CED ... -
Seeking Pathways to Sustainable Food - Chapter 6 of The Resilience Imperative: Co-operative Transitions to a Steady State Economy
(New Society Publishers, 2012)This book chapter explores a range of models around the world for seeking pathways to sustainable food production and consumption. It addresses this theme from the overall perspective of the book, which explores a more ... -
Seikatsu Consumer Coop: Scaling up food system transformation?
(2009-11-24)This presentation to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) reports on BALTA research on the Seikatsu Consumer Co-operative in Japan and explores its relevance for local food system ... -
Seikatsu Consumer Coop: Scaling-up Food System Transformation
(2010-09-25)This case study is part of a research program of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) looking at local food, sustainability and the social economy. It examines the Seikatsu Consumer Co-operative in ... -
Seikatsu Coop de consommateurs: Un contribution aux durabilitédu système agricole
(2010-04-09)This presentation was given at a two-day workshop of the Congrès du mouvement coopératif francophone de l’Alberta in April, 2010. It presents research conducted by the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) ... -
SeikatsuConsumer Coop: Scaling up food system transformation?
(2009-11-26)This presentation was given at the Co-operatives and Local Food Infrastructure conference hosted by Alberta Agriculture and Food on November 26, 2009. It presents research conducted by the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research ... -
The Self in Career Learning: An Evolving Dialogue
(2010-11-17)It is broadly accepted that modern society poses a significant challenge to an individual's career development and that there are as yet few theoretical frameworks that provide a holistic perspective on how to understand ...