Cultivating Civic Ecology

Urban Environmental Education From a Social-Ecological Perspective: Conceptual Framework for Civic Ecology Education

A variety of environmental education practices are emerging to address the needs of an increasingly urban population. Drawing from social-ecological systems and social learning theory, we propose a conceptual framework to stimulate research questions in urban environmental education. More specifically, our conceptual framework focuses on environmental education programs that are nested within a...

Cultivating Virtue

Ought you to cultivate your own virtue? Various philosophers have argued that there is something suspect about directing one’s ethical attention towards oneself in this way. These arguments can be divided between those that deem aiming at virtue for its own sake to be narcissistic and those that consider aiming at virtue for the sake of good behaviour to involve a kind of doublethink. Underlyin...

CIVIC Entrepreneurship

Cultivating Communities of Practice

Cultivating Communities of Practice is one of the most important books to be published in the KM field in the last few years. It is both catching and defining a trend. In some ways the arguments that are put forward in this book have been knocking around the KM industry for a number of years-ever since Wenger wrote his seminal book in 1998 on Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and Ident...

Cultivating a global mindset

ed from Stoppard, D. B., Donnellon, A., & Nolan, R. L. 1997. VeriFone, HBS Case No. 9-398-030. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing.