While “systemic thinking” is popular in the context of capacity development and evaluation, there currently a lack understanding about benefits to employing systems theory evaluation development. Systems provides useful orientation work involved complex (e.g. national systems). This article illustrates how practitioners can use as conceptual tool gain better functional aspects interrelationship...

Tourism has long been explored through the lens of development theory. David Harrison was one earlier academics to do so, subsequently turning his attention critiquing relevance such theory tourism, concluding that although much tourism research framed within it, contributed little if anything knowledge and understanding tourism-development nexus. Recognising Harrison’s contribution field, this...

This is a lightly edited version of the talk given on September 30, 2020 to inaugurate international seminar series {\it All Things EFT}. It reviews some early history effective field theories, and concludes with discussion implications theory for future discovery.

There is an increasing trend in revealing the effect of conceptual metaphor on activities context education. In order to shed light future studies this field, it necessary review development and critiques theory general applications previous under education particular. This paper defines term "metaphor" at first further reviews its implications constructing conceptualization educational-related...