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Using Linear Assignments in Spatial Sampling
(2023) Robertson, Blair; Price, C; Brown, J; Reale, M
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Troubling the boundaries of traditional schooling for a rapidly changing future – Looking back and looking forward
(Informa UK Limited, 2024) Teschers, Christoph; Neuhaus, T; Vogt, M
Rapid technological advancements, globalisation, environmental crises, and ongoing conflicts have contributed to an increasingly quickly changing social, cultural, and work environment for current and future generations. In this paper, we argue that the traditional schooling system and approaches to curriculum and pedagogy that are based on 19th century industrial age models might reach their limit to prepare students sufficiently for the expectations and challenges of life and work in future. While so-called 21st-century education has seen a nominal change in classroom layouts and increased use of teaching technology, we would argue that not much has changed in terms of the underlying structures of schools and the mostly pre-described curriculum schools and teachers must operate under. While current education systems struggle with many challenges from teacher burnouts to increasing student dis-engagement (e.g., rising truancy in New Zealand), we posit that new challenges lie ahead that will further disrupt, if not implode, current approaches to schooling and curriculum. Drawing on theories such as Biesta’s (2022) World-Centred Education and Pinar’s (2023) notion of Currere to reconceptualise curriculum, we would argue that schooling needs to move away from the traditional ‘static map’ of curriculum content to a more dynamic approach to schooling that allows teachers and schools to chart new territory, together with their students, for a rapidly changing future. As guiding compass of sorts for dynamically exploring an uncertain future with students, we propose Teschers’ (2018) educational approach to Schmid’s (2000a) Art of Living as a starting point.
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Understanding more by studying New Zealand's highest cycle commuting suburb
(2024) Roling, L; Lexie, B; Jack, L; Zoē, M-M; Joe, Y; Kingham, Simon
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Should We Join or Not?: An Experimental Study of Conditions Affecting Small Parties in Coalition Formation
(2010) Tan, Alex; Geva, N; Bragg, B
The study of how and why coalitions are formed has piqued the interest of scholars of parliamentary politics and a cottage industry of research has resulted. Despite the voluminous theories and hypotheses on the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ of coalition formation, current work tends to focus on the role of the large formateur (lead party). In this research we turn our attention to the parties that are being ‘courted’ to join a coalition – the small parties. Why do the small parties join a coalition? Using an experimental cost-benefit model, we examine the factors that influence the decision of small parties to join or not to a join a governing coalition.
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Increasing microfinance risk tolerance through revenue sharing: An experiment
(Informa UK Limited, 2021) Clark, Jeremy; Spraggon, J
Microfinance has been found to be less effective for high risk/return borrowing groups. We report a group liability microfinance lab experiment that tests a mechanism to raise repayment rates among such borrowers. The mechanism offers partial revenue sharing among groups of borrowers, agreed to before individual business outcomes are realized and loan repayment is due. Such revenue sharing makes loan repayment optimal under more outcome states, increasing the expected benefit to each borrower of repayment to qualify for future loans. We further test the effect of allowing borrowers to renege on revenue sharing agreements after learning their business outcomes, prior to loan repayment decisions. Our results illustrate the problem that exogenously higher risk/return borrowing groups achieve lower loan repayment rates than lower risk/return borrowing groups. We find evidence that optional revenue sharing significantly increases high risk borrowers’ repayment rates, but that most of this gain is lost if they can renege on revenue sharing agreements.