Education, Research and Training
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Hands On Technology
Appropriate green technologies are sometimes regarded as a second-rate solution but Hands On Technology challenges this concept by presenting real-life examples of successful appropriate technology stories from around the world. This video package allows students at Key Stage 4 to explore issues beh...
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Sustainable Lifestyles?
Sustainable lifestyles encourages students to think about sustainability in both a local and global context, enabling them to understand the values issues surrounding appropriate design and technology. The pack looks at the often complex economic and cultural issues associated with suatainable and a...
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Wall to Wall Design
Wall to Wall Design provides teachers with an opportunity to explore issues surrounding the appropriate design and application of technology in the building of homes in both Kenya and the UK. The resource pack uses the IT Kenya's Masaai housing project as a practical case study, where women are resp...
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Live Well, Live Wisely
Live Well, Live Wisely! enables teachers to deliver education for sustainable development from a global perspective within the subject areas of design, technology and geography at key stage 3 of the UK National Curriculum (11-14 year olds).
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Training for Transformation (IV)
Training for Transformation Book 4 is a practical and accessible workbook for community development workers. It recognises that the only changes which effectively transform the lives of poor people are those in which they have been active participants and focuses on five issues which have become mor...
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Development @ IT
This booklet provides an introduction to the concepts of appropriate and sustainable technologies, and how these technologies can improve people's lives.
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Working with Indigenous Knowledge
Working with Indigenous Knowledge: A guide for researchers
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Training for Transformation
Three volumes designed to assist workers in the field who are encouraging the development of self-reliant creative communities. The book has as its basic philosophy the belief that we should all participate in making this world a more just place to live in. Training for Transformation integrates the...
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Cultural Dimension of Development
D Michael Warren, L. Jan Slikkerveer, David W. Brokensha
Presents overwhelming evidence, from a range of disciplines, that local people do know a great deal about their environment. This knowledge must be taken into account in the planning and implementation of development to be both acceptable and effective. Forty-six contributions from anthropologists,...