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Community of Practice. I have met Etienne Wenger in 2000 when we were working on creating the LINC (Learning International Network Consortium) with Prof. Dick Larson in MIT. He introduced his Community of Practice to us as a group and I was fascinated with it (although I just comprehended it fully!). We had a nice chat especially about my Controlling Instincts theories which, somehow, complemented his theory. I do not remember whether I felt he accepted it because I was proud of myself or he dismissed it and I chose to ignore the fact. Few years later, I met him again at a conference held by University of Alberta… and to my amazement, he did not remember me although he remembered the project. It was an understandable shock. Anyways, I read and reflected on his Community of Practice sporadically over the years until I was forced to study it as part of my doctoral studies. An Epiphany that has many applications. What a week. Principles of Engagement.

Broad principles underpin engagement and a practical knowledge and adaptation of these will increase the effectiveness of your engagement activities. In a review of existing literature and theory, Petts and Leach1 developed a list of engagement principles which includes: a need for clarity of objectives, and of legal, linked and seamless processes consensus on agenda, procedures and effectiveness representativeness and inclusiveness deliberation capability and social learning decision responsiveness transparency and enhancement of trust.Additional principles that apply to the relationship between stakeholders and the organisation implementing the engagement are: A commitment to reciprocity that includes stating what you require of the community, and delivery of what you will provide in exchange.

Establish what you are promising as part of the engagement process. Social Work Action Network. 8 No Time Left. 15 Shocking Poverty Statistics That Are Skyrocketing As The American Middle Class Continues To Be Slowly Wiped Out. The "America" that so many of us have taken for granted for so many decades is literally disintegrating right in front of our eyes. Most Americans are still operating under the delusion that the United States will always be "the wealthiest nation" in the world and that our economy will always produce large numbers of high paying jobs and that the U.S. will always have a very large middle class. But that is not what is happening. The very foundations of the U.S. economy have rotted away and we now find ourselves on the verge of an economic collapse. Already, millions upon millions of Americans are slipping out of the middle class and into the devastating grip of poverty.

On the mainstream news, the American people are treated to endless footage of leaders from both political parties proclaiming that the primary reason that we are in the midst of such an economic mess is because of what the other political party has done. Both of them. It does not take a genius to figure that out. 4 in 10: The End Child Poverty London Project.

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