If a Tree Falls: Business Students Learning Active Citizenship from Environmentalists

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Active Learning for Active Citizenship: An Overview

The project Active LearTling for Active Citktnship formed part of recent civil renewal policy and contributed to the development of ideas along with action on the ground. Whilst that practice will be explored in other chapters, this chapter will examine the underlying principles. It is written by the author of the original report submitted to the Home Office in 2004, who subsequently helped ini...

Active learning for active citizenship: The policy context

In this paper the UK civil servant directly responsible for managing the action research programme Active Learning for Active Citizenship (ALAC), sets out in brief the policy context within which the programme developed. He explains how concepts of active citizenship and community development were brought together in the early 21st century by the British Government, in a programme of 'civil ren...

The Business Case for Corporate Citizenship A

Classifying Business Types from Twitter Posts Using Active Learning

Today, many companies have adopted Twitter as an additional marketing medium to advertise and promote their business activities. One possible solution for organizing a large number of posts is to classify them into a predefined category of business types. Applying normal text categorization technique on Twitter is ineffective due to the short-length (140-character limit) characteristic of each ...