I nterest and experience in participatory research projects has been growing for some time in the North, yet lessons learned from these complex and still evolving community campus partnerships are still rarely shared in the general peer-reviewed literature. An electronic search of this Journal’s archives netted just four papers in the past five years that included Community Based Participatory ...

Web-based product configurator systems are a comprehensive way for firms, to give their customers an interactive overview of available product variants. By using a product configurator customers can “experience” how the product can be adapted in accordance to individual needs and preferences. But the more complex a product becomes the more tedious, confusing and even time consuming the configur...

This study aimed to explore the role of home industry activities for community in Tilongkabila district. was qualitative research with a case method. examined depth economic empowerment through industries that have developed Bongopini Village (Tofu Tempeh), Lonuo (Chips and Sugar Brown), Permata Bongoime (Cake, Pia, workshop, Ayam Geprek Restaurant), Tamboo (pastry). Furthermore, data were coll...

Using the agent based simulation model Sociodynamica, I explore the effect of various intensities of feelings of shame in cementing social bonds that affect the aggregate health (average longevity of agents) and wealth (GDP) of two artificial societies: A primitive society with no division of labor, and a monetized society with division of labor for three different tasks. The results show that ...

Governments can play great roles in their countries, regions, and cities; facilitating or leading the resolution of festering problems and opening new pathways for progress. Examples are more numerous than one might imagine and raise an important question: ‘how do governments become great?’. This paper identifies ten cases of great governments to answer four dimensions of this question: What ki...

CONTEXT As faculty at health professionals schools have become increasingly engaged with their communities in partnerships to improve health, new questions have arisen about faculty rewards for such activities. To sustain the community work of their faculty, institutions need to reconceptualize faculty rewards, promotion, and tenure that are relevant to community activities. HISTORICAL PERSPE...

A community of practice may shape and reshape the identity of members of the community through providing them with situated learning or learning environment. This study, therefore, is to clarify the salient learning-based features of the language teaching community of practice that might formulate the identity of language teachers. To this end, the study examined how learning situations in two ...