Contemporary Capacity-Building in Educational Contexts

1. Front Matter

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2. Conceptualising and Contextualising Contemporary Capacity-Building

   • Patrick Alan Danaher, Andy Davies, Linda De George-Walker, Janice K. Jones, Karl J. Matthews, Warren Midgley et al.

   Pages 1-20

3. Consciousness and Capacity-Building

   • Patrick Alan Danaher, Andy Davies, Linda De George-Walker, Janice K. Jones, Karl J. Matthews, Warren Midgley et al.

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4. Creative Capacity-Building

   • Patrick Alan Danaher, Andy Davies, Linda De George-Walker, Janice K. Jones, Karl J. Matthews, Warren Midgley et al.

   Pages 35-49

5. Disrupting Disempowerment: Agency in Education

   • Patrick Alan Danaher, Andy Davies, Linda De George-Walker, Janice K. Jones, Karl J. Matthews, Warren Midgley et al.

   Pages 50-61

6. Diversity and Identity

   • Patrick Alan Danaher, Andy Davies, Linda De George-Walker, Janice K. Jones, Karl J. Matthews, Warren Midgley et al.

   Pages 62-73

7. Forms of Capital and Currencies

   • Patrick Alan Danaher, Andy Davies, Linda De George-Walker, Janice K. Jones, Karl J. Matthews, Warren Midgley et al.

   Pages 74-86

8. Knowledge Sharing Practices and Capacity-Building

   • Patrick Alan Danaher, Andy Davies, Linda De George-Walker, Janice K. Jones, Karl J. Matthews, Warren Midgley et al.

   Pages 87-98

9. Regionality, Rurality and Capacity-Building

   • Patrick Alan Danaher, Andy Davies, Linda De George-Walker, Janice K. Jones, Karl J. Matthews, Warren Midgley et al.

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10. Resilience and Capacity-Building

    • Patrick Alan Danaher, Andy Davies, Linda De George-Walker, Janice K. Jones, Karl J. Matthews, Warren Midgley et al.

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11. Capacity-Building for New and Transformative Educational Futures

    • Patrick Alan Danaher, Andy Davies, Linda De George-Walker, Janice K. Jones, Karl J. Matthews, Warren Midgley et al.

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12. Back Matter

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Education is generally supposed to help learners to develop new capacities and to be able to apply them in work and life - yet we still know very little about how to build useful capacities. This book investigates nine research projects, exploring why particular capacities are successful in some situations but not in others.

• Agency
• capacity-building
• consciousness
• creativity
• diversity
• education research
• educational contexts
• empowerment
• forms of capital
• identity
• knowledge management
• resilience
• rurality
• capital
• education

• University of Southern Queensland, Australia

  Patrick Alan Danaher, Janice K. Jones, Karl J. Matthews, Warren Midgley, Catherine H. Arden, Margaret Baguley

• Sidra Medical & Research Center, Qatar

  Andy Davies

• Central Queensland University, Australia

  Linda George-Walker

Patrick Alan Danaher is Professor in Educational Research at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
 
Andy Davies is Research Supervisor for the Simulation Department at the Sidra Medical and Research Centre in Doha, Qatar.
 
Linda De George-Walker is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Central Queensland University, Australia.
 
Janice K. Jones is Senior Lecturer in Arts Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
 
Karl J. Matthews is a Researcher at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
 
Warren Midgley is Head of the School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
 
Catherine H. Arden is Lecturer in Adult and Vocational Education and Training/Senior Schooling at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
 
Margaret Baguley is Associate Professor at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

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