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- Uses and Abuses of Intelligence:
Studies Advancing Spearman and Raven's Quest for Non-Arbitrary Metrics. - Competence in the Learning Society.
- The New Wealth of Nations:
A New Enquiry into the Nature and Origins of the Wealth of Nations and the Societal Learning Arrangements Required for a Sustainable Society. - Managing Education for Effective Schooling:
The Most Important Problem is to Come to Terms with Values.
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| John Raven (April 2020) |
Diving in where angels fear to tread: Pre-requisites to evidence-based interventions. Main Article |
The Psychology of Education Review,vol 44. pages 4 to 17 | The British Psychological Society | |
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| John Raven (April 2020) |
Diving in where angels fear to tread: Pre-requisites to evidence-based interventions. Continuing the Dialogue |
The Psychology of Education Review,vol 44. pages 48 to 56. | The British Psychological Society | |
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| John Raven (April 2020) |
Full (pre-publication) version of Response to commentators' remarks in the Open Dialogue published in The Psychology of Education Review (2020) 44 (1) | unpublished | |
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| John Raven (April 2020) |
The Abuse of Science, Logic, and Authority and the neglect of systemic thinking. “Nice” example: Coronavirus Lockdown |
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| John Raven (Jan 2020) |
Recent Research Supporting a Specific-motive-based Model of Competence. | Seminar held in Prague, 20 January 2020 |
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| John Raven (June 2019) |
Social media, truth, social forces, democracy, and social research: The “scientific” manufacture of untruth and desolation … and a possible cure. | Paper presented at RC51 conference, Urbino, 25-29 June 2019 |
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| John Raven (May 2019) |
Fundamental problems in, and with, policy-relevant research illustrated from research relating to “Closing the Gap”. | |
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| Piotr Oles (2019) |
Appreciation of John Raven. (Opinion prepared for granting Professor John Raven the doctorate honoris causa of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin [English translation]) |
Niniejska kslazka ukazuje sie w serii, Katholik University of Lublin, "Doktorzy Honoris Causa" Nr. 19 | |
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| Anon (April 2019) |
Newspaper account of Honorary Doctoral ceremony in the course of which the paper available in the next entry was delivered. | Poland IN, KUL | LINK English |
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| John Raven (2019) |
Toward a Sustainable Society: Science, Public Management, and the Role of the University. | In Polish and English: Booklet accompanying award of title Doktor Honoris Causa, April 2019 | Katholic University of Lublin, Al. Raclawickie 14, 20-950 Lublin, Poland. www.kul.pl | English Polskie |
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| John Raven (2018) |
Modelling the Network of Social Forces that have the future of Homo Sapiens and the Planet in their Grip and Designing a Dynamic Public Management System. | A paper prepared for the annual conference of the UK chapter of the Systems Dynamics Society, 2018 | Paper Slides for this paper |
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| John and Jean Raven (2018) |
JOHN CARLYLE RAVEN and his legacy. |
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| John Carlyle Raven (2018) |
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| J. Raven (2018) |
Fiddling while Rome burns |
The Psychologist, 31, November, p-3 |
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| J. Raven (2018) |
Harnessing Social Processes for the Common Good |
Journal for Perspectives of Economic, Political, and Social Integration, Vol 24, p 9 - 49 |
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| J. Raven (2018) |
A critique of von Weizsäcker, E.U., & Wijkman, A. (with 34 collaborators) Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet – A Report to the Club of Rome. |
Edited version (in English with Russian abstract): Azimuth of Scientific Research: Economics and Administration. T.7. no 2 p400-410 In Russian with translation by O. Yarygin 2019, vol. 8, no. 1 (26) – pp. 31-40 |
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| Gerald Schuhfried and John Raven (July 2018) |
Interview via SKYPE about John Raven's research into the nature and development of competence in homes, schools, and workplaces. |
RadioCore website: https://www.radiocore.at/en/ |
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| John Raven (June 2018) |
How to deal with Atrocities Invented and Perpetrated by Public Servants? | |
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| John Raven (2018) |
Gap? What Gap?: Nuggets | |
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| John Raven (June 2018) |
Closing the gaps | Educational and Child Psychology, V33, pgs 96 - 107 | |
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| John Raven (Mar 2018) |
Letter: Beyond non-replicability. | The Psychologist, May, 2018, 5 | |
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| Geoffrey Hillyard (Mar 2018) |
SCOOP (Senior Citizens Opt Out Procedure) Main Thesis Presentation. Edited by John Raven, March 2018 |  |
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| John Raven. (Mar 2018) |
Some criminal (if not yet criminalised) misapplications of “science”, logic, and power illustrated from the field of early childhood education. | |
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| John Raven. (Mar 2018) |
Local Government and Communities Committee Planning (Scotland) Bill Submission from John Raven | |
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| John Raven. (Nov 2017) |
Choosing to Live or Die A letter to The Psychologist concerning the BPS Position Statement Understanding and Preventing suicide: A Psychological Perspective |
Published as "Suicidality – what is ‘help’? "The Psychologist, January 2018, p3 |
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| John Raven. (Aug 2017) |
Problems with "Closing the Gap" Philosophy and Research Some Observations Derived from 60 Years in Educational Research |
Baltic Humanitarian Journal, 2017, v.3. p252-275 Azimuth of Scientific Research: Pedagogy and Psychology. 2018. . 7. 1(22) p181-198 |
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| John Raven. (Feb 2017) |
Surveillance of Government and Corporations. Submission to Law Commission. | |
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| David Webster, with introduction by John Raven. (Nov 2016) |
Beyond 'I, Daniel Blake': Summary of an Inquiry Into Benefit Sanctions Policy | |
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| John Raven, Angela Espinosa, and Jon Walker. (Nov 2016) |
Hull Seminar Outline | |
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| J. Raven (July 2016) |
Education and Sociocybernetics | A corrected version of that published as pages 343 to 355 in Senses-Ozyurt, S., Klein, S., & Nemeskeri, Z. (2016) Educating for Democratic Governance and Global Citizenship San Diego, CA, USA: World Council for Curriculum and Instruction. | |
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| J. Raven (June 2016) |
Harnessing the Social Forces Behind our Backs | |
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| J. Raven (May 2019) |
The Pervasive and Pernicious Effects of Neglecting Systems Thinking | |
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| J. Raven (Jan 2016) |
Genome common sense? (Edited and published version of the article below) |
The Psychologist, Feb. 2016, vol 29 no. 2, p87 | |
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| J. Raven (Jan 2016) |
Response to a highlighted letter in The Psychologist entitled 'Not in your genes' | |
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| J. Raven (Aug 2015) |
Harnessing Social Processes ... turbulent times: Abstract | RC51 conference, Zaragoza, July 2015 | Powerpoint slides for this paper |
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| J. Raven (Aug 2015) |
The Banks & World Management | Russian translation published in Karelian Scientific Journal, Vol 2015-3(12) pp.74-79 http://www.napravo.ru/ pages/ nauchnye_jurnaly/ karelskii_nauchnyi_jurnal/ nomera_jurnalov_kar/ |
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| J. Raven (June 2015) |
Evidence Based Policy and Systems Thinking | |
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| J. Raven (Feb 2015) |
Dyslexia: Getting it Wrong | |
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| J. Raven (April 2014) |
Our Incompetent Society | Russian translation by Oleg Yarygin) Part I: Baltic Humanitarian Journal (2016) T.5. No 4 (17) 274-292. Part II: Azimuth Of Scientific Researches / Pedagogy and Psychology, (2016) T.5, No 4 (17) 198-205. |
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| J. Raven (July 2014) |
Madness - or worse. | |
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| J. Raven (July 2014) |
The ITC and Assessment. | |
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| Aidan Ward (2014) |
Systems notions of governance and real world challenges. | |
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| J.Raven (2013) | Socio-cybernetics and Degrowth. A proposal for a core research paper relating to the following themes: Conditions for Degrowth; Democracy and Beyond; Infrastructure and Public Services; Transforming education |
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| J.Raven (2013) | Lecture on Uses and Abuses of Intelligence at SHL Hungary, March 2013 | Watch on YouTube |
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| J.Raven (2013) | A Quest for Contributions | |
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| J.Raven (2013) | Intelligence - Time for Open Debate. | The Psychologist Vol 6, No. 4 pg 239 |
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| J.Raven (2013) | Cambridge Programme: Education, Values, and Society. A brief outline of Prof. Raven's presentation at Downing College, University of Cambridge. |
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| J.Raven (2013) | 3000 Characters on Life's Work. A paper prepared for a series of lectures and discussions covering various apsects of the work of Prof. John Raven, held in Budapest and Pécs, Hungary. |
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| J.Raven (2013) | The Role of the Universities (Paying particular attention to Social Sciences and Education). A short paper prepared for a talk in Pécs, Hungary. |
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| J.Raven (2012) | Emergence. A paper prepared for the Focolari Conference |
Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration: Journal for Mental Changes. #19, 91-109. |
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| J.Raven (2012) | Addendum to Emergence paper. | |
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| J.Raven (2012) | Response to Rhoda Grant's Consultation around a Proposed Bill to criminalise the purchase of "sex". | |
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| Raven, Hornung, Korycki and McCarron (2012). | Socio-cybernetics and Complex Organisations: Programme for SCiO workshops. | |
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| Hornung, McCarron, and Raven (2012). | Invitation to join a Task Force on Management of Complex Organisations emerging from the above workshop. | |
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| Raven, J. (2012) | Advances in Mapping, Measuring, and Harnessing the network of social forces which control the "Educational" System ...
and Have the Future of Humankind and the Planet in their Grip. |
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| Borsboom, D. (2012) | The psychometrics of psychopathology. A network approach. Video of Edinburgh Lecture (OHDs only, no sound) |
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| Raven. J. (2012) | Faith in Measurement | The Psychologist, Vol 25, No. 2, pg 96-97 |
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| Raven. J.(2012) | Systems Thinking: RPM x Values interpretation. | |
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| Raven. J.(2012) | Open Dialogue: Toward Professionalism in Psychology and Education | The Psychology of Education Review, Vol. 35, No. 2, Spring 2012 Note: Reviewers' comments from original published version have been removed. |
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| Raven. J. (2012) | Competence, Education, Professional Development, Psychology, and Socio-Cybernetics (Complete article) | |
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| Raven. J. (2012) | Competence, Education, Professional Development, Psychology, and Socio-Cybernetics | A shortened and edited version of the above paper, published as Chapter 16 in G. J. Neimeyer (Ed.), (2012) Continuing Education: Types, Roles, and Societal Impacts. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge, New York 11788-3619 | |
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| Raven. J. (2011) | What does it mean to be professional? | The Psychologist, 24, No. 8, 560 |
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| Raven. J. (April 2000) | The Outstanding Properties of the Standard Progressive Matrices Plus test | |
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| Dusica Boben, Anca Dobrean, and Jean & John Raven (2011) |
Slovenian and Romanian Norms for the Raven Progressive Matrices in a Cross-Cultural Context. | WebPsychEmpiricist. July 14, 2011 | |
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| Raven, J. (2011) | Spearman on Intelligence. | WebPsychEmpiricist. May 14, 2011 | |
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| Multiple. | Wikipedia: Charles Spearman | Wikipedia | |
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| Multiple. | Wikipedia: John C. Raven | Wikipedia | |
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| Multiple. | Wikipedia: Raven Progressive Matrices | Wikipedia | |
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| Raven. J. & Gallon. L. (2010) | Conceptualising, Mapping and Measuring Social Forces. | Journal of Sociocybernetics Volume 8, Winter 2010 |
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| Raven. J. & Gallon. L. (2010) | Conceptualising, Mapping and Measuring Social Forces. | Unpublished |
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| Raven. J. (2010) | Beyond ABC to DEF (Democracy, Entrepreneurship, and Freedom) in Education. | Unpublished |
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| Raven. J. (2010) | Testing the Spearman-Jensen Hypothesis Using the Items of the RPM | Unpublished | |
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| Raven. J. (2009) | The Raven Progressive Matrices And Measuring Aptitude Constructs | The International Journal of Educational and Psychological Assessment 2009, Vol. 2, p2-38 |
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| Raven. J. (2009) | Crisis, What Crisis? | An edited version of this chapter has been published as: |
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| Raven. J. (2009) | Advancing and Defeating the PEGS Agenda Socio-Cybernetics and Murray Bookchin | The Good Society, 19(2). 79 - 88. |
Penn State Press 820 N. University Dr. USB1, Suite C University Park, PA 16802-1003 |
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| Raven. J. (2009) | Response to Billington Working with Children: Psychologists at the boundaries of knowledge and experience | The Psychology of Education Review 33 No. 2, September 2009, 15 - 18. |
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| Raven. J. (2009) | Psychologists and Sustainability | Unpublished | |
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| Raven. J. (2009) | How are we to understand and map the network of social forces behind the autopoietic processes which appear to be heading our species toward extinction, carrying the planet as we know it with us – and how are we to design a more effective socio-cybernetic system for societal management? | Unpublished | |
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| Raven, J. (2009) | The Emergence of Hierarchy, Domination and Centralisation: Reflections on the Work of Murray Bookchin | Revised version of that published in Journal for Perspectives of Economic, Political, and Social Integration, 14(1-2) 11-75. |
Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski, Lublin, Poland. | |
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| Raven. J. (2008) | Book Review: Hattie, John A.C. (2009). VISIBLE LEARNING: A synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement. London, England, Routledge: Taylor & Francis. Pp378 | Unpublished | |
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| Raven. J. (2008) | Book Review: Hattie, John A.C. (2009). VISIBLE LEARNING: A synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement. London, England, Routledge: Taylor & Francis. Pp378 | Edited version of the above, published as "Striking Insights about teaching and learning." The Psychologist, 2009, Vol 22 p414. |
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| Court J. H. (2008) | From normal curve to slippery slope | Testing International, 19, 12-13. |
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| Raven. J. (2008) | Some comments prompted by John Seddon’s book “Systems Thinking in the Public Sector: the failure of the reform regime – and a manifesto for a better way” | Unpublished | |
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| Raven. J. (2008) | Fundamental Problems in Psychometrics | Testing International, 19, 16-17. |
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| Raven, J. (2008) | Creating a Learning Society: What have organisational Psychologists to offer?, | Psychwiki, 30th March 2008 |
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| Raven, J. (2008) | Progressing a Paradigm Shift in Psychometrics, | Psychwiki | |
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| Raven, J. (2008) | Normative Data from the Standardisation of Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices in Kuwait in an International Context | Previously published verion in 2005 Social Behaviour and Personality: An International Journal, 34(2) |
WebPsychEmpiricist. Table of Papers | |
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| Fugard, A. & Raven, J. (2008) | What’s Wrong with Factor-Analysing Tests Conforming to the Requirements of Item Response Theory? | WebPsychEmpiricist, 23 May 2008 |
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| Uses and Abuses of Intelligence Complete book available to order or download |
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| Raven, J., Raven .J. (eds) (2008) | Uses and Abuses of Intelligence: Studies Advancing Spearman and Raven's Quest for Non-Arbitrary Metrics. | Unionville, New York: Royal Fireworks
Press; Edinburgh, Scotland: Competency Motivation Project; Budapest, Hungary: EDGE 2000; Cluj Napoca, Romania: Romanian Psychological Testing Services SRL. |
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| Raven, J. (2007) | 100 unethical acts which we commit every day | Unpublished | |
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| Raven, J. (2007) | Some mysteries in the short-term evolution of individual and collective intelligence. | In G. de Zeeuw, M. Vahl, & E. Mennuti (Eds.), Problems of Individual Emergence. Special Issue of Systemica: Journal of the Dutch Systems Group 14, nos. 1-6 373-376 No PDF of the published version is available but a PDF of the draft version of the paper can be obtained by clicking on the pdf button to the right |
Lincoln Research Centre, Globe Farm, Lincoln, LN1 2SQ, UK. | [1] |
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| Raven, J. (2007) | Some problems of individual emergence. | In G. de Zeeuw, M. Vahl, & E. Mennuti, (Eds.), Problems of Individual Emergence. Special Issue of Systemica: Journal of the Dutch Systems Group 14, nos. 1-6 377- 396 No PDF of the published version is available but a PDF of the draft version of the paper can be obtained by clicking on the pdf button to the right |
Lincoln Research Centre, Globe Farm, Lincoln, LN1 2SQ, UK. | [1] [2] |
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| Raven, J. (2007) | Creating a Future for Homo Sapiens: Transforming the Educational System and Society | Unpublished |
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| Schivone, G. M. (2007) | The Responsibility of Intellectuals Noam Chomsky Interviewed by Gabriel Matthew Schivone, June 25, 2007 | Published in ZNet, 16 August 2007 |
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| Raven, J. (2006) | A 90 minute webcast of a talk Dr. Raven gave on "The Flynn Effect" at the University of Minnesota in December 2006. | Video | |
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| Raven, J., Raven, J.C. & Court, J.H. | Manual for Raven's Progressive Matrices and Mill Hill Vocabulary Scales. | San Antonio, TX: The Psychological Corporation. | |
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| Raven, J. (2006) | Comment - Papierno and Ceci Miss the Point. A response to Papierno and Ceci's response to my response to More Problems with Gap Closing Philosophy and Research (below) |
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| Raven, J. (2005) | More problems with Gap Closing Philosophy and Research | American Psychologist, 2005, 60, 1041-1042 |
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| Hursh, D. (2006) | The Crisis in Urban Education: Resisting Neoliberal Policies and Forging Democratic Possibilities | Educational Review, May 2006 | |
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Designing a Learning Society. | Proceedings of Deming Learning Network conference on Society in Sync, Aberdeen, February 2006. | [1] |
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| Raven, J. (2006) | Psychologists and the Government Consultation on “Extreme Pornographic Material” | Unpublished | |
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| Raven, J. (2006) | Toward a Sustainable Society: Next Steps. | Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Linking Systems Thinking, Innovation, Quality, Entrepreneurship and Environment. (STIQE) 2006. | Faculty of Economics and Business, Maribor, Slovenia | |
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| Marks, N., Simms, A., Thompson, S., & Abdallah, S. (2006) | The (Un)happy Planet Index: An Index of Human Well-being and Environmental Impact. | London: New Economics Foundation. Downloadable from www.neweconomics.org and www.happyplanetindex.org |
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| Raven, J. (2006) | Undesirable Human Traits . | Unpublished | |
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| Raven, J. (2005) | Ability, Science, and Ethics | Unpublished |
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| Raven, J. (2005) | Derailing the statutory regulation train. | The Psychologist, 18, 338. |
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| Raven, J. (2005) | Lethal intelligence. | The Psychologist, 18, 68. |
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| Raven, J. (2005) | Liberal Education and Liberalism in Modern Society, | The Good Society, 14(3), 29-37. |
Pennsylvania State University. | |
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| Raven, J. (2005) | More Problems with Gap Closing Philosophy and Research. | American Psychologist 60, |
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| Raven, J. (2003) | On the Need to Record Contributions to the Continued Development of Psychology (CDP) Instead of Continued Professional Development (CPD) | Published version Raven, J. (2003)., CPD - What should we be developing? The Psychologist, 16(7), 360-362. |
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| Rees, W. E. (2002) | Globalization and Sustainability: Conflict or Convergence? | Bulletin of Science, Technology
and Society, 22 (4), 249-268. |
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| Raven, J. (2002) | Implications of the Case Studies of Creative People for Psychometrics, | American Psychologist, 57 (5). 374-375. |
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| Raven, J. (1998) modified 2002 |
Reflections on the Birmingham TOES or We have a public management problem not an economic problem | Unpublished |
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| Raven, J. (2002) | Spearman's Raven Legacy, | Testing International, 12 (2), 7-10. |
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The Systems Minefield Extended in 1998, including items from The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant (1993). Elaborated in 2000-2001 from many sources for the International Institute for General Systems Studies (IIGSS). Currently a research project of the IIGSS. |
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| Raven, J. & Stephenson, J. (Eds.). (2001) | Competence in the Learning Society. | Book | Peter Lang. | |
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Competence in the Learning Society: Selected chapters available as PDF
| Table of Contents | Listing all chapters and authors | |
| Chapter 1 | Learning Societies, Learning Organisations, and Learning: Their Implications For Competence, Its Development, and Its Assessment | |
| Chapter 4 | The Incapable Professional (Tony Becher) | |
| Chapter 6 | Commentary: The Pernicious Effects of Incompetence on Society, Education, and Assessment | |
| Chapter 9 | The McBer Competency Framework | |
| Chapter 12 | Issues Raised by the Studies of Competence | |
| Chapter 13 | The Crisis of Professional Knowledge and the Pursuit of an Epistemology of Practice (Donald A. Schön) | |
| Chapter 15 | The McClelland/McBer Competency Models | |
| Chapter 17 | The Conceptualisation of Competence | |
| Chapter 18 | Facilitating the Development of Competence | |
| Chapter 20 | Essentials of Action Learning (Reg W. Revans, 1978 - Edited and revised by David Botham, 1996) | |
| Chapter 21 | Inputs and Outcomes: The Experience of Independent Study at the North East London Polytechnic (John Stephenson) | |
| Chapter 23 | Some Barriers to the Introduction of Competency-Based Education | |
| Chapter 25 | Competence-Based Assessment (Alison Wolf) | |
| Chapter 26 | Assessing the Self-managing Learner: A Contradiction in Terms? (Stan Lester) | |
| Chapter 28 | The Assessment of Competence | |
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| Raven, J. & Navrotsky, V. (2001) | The Development and Use of maps of Socio-Cybernetic Systems to Improve Educational and Social Policy, with particular reference to sustainability, | Journal for Mental Changes, 7 (1-2) , 19-60. |
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| Raven, J. (2001) | Poisonous Paradigms: Unethical Procedures and Injunctions at the Heart of Psychology | Unpublished | |
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| Raven, J. (2001) | Psychologists and Sustainability. | The American Psychologist. 56, 455-457. |
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| Raven, J. (2000) | Beyond the 3Rs: Achieving and evaluating the wider goals of education., | A slightly edited version of this paper was published in:S. Gerjolj, J. Kolenc, B. Novak, & M. Novak, Clovek in Kurikul (pp. 33-57). Druzina, Ljubljana: Zbornik Predavanj. | |
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| Raven, J. (2000) | Ethical Dilemmas | Updated version originally published in The Psychologist, 13(8), 404–406 |
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| Raven, J. (2000) | The Raven’s Progressive Matrices: Change and stability over culture and time. | Cognitive
Psychology, 41, 1-48. |
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| Raven, J. (2000) | Rethinking democracy. | The
Good Society (Journal of the Committee on the Political Economy of
the Good Society [PEGS]), 9(3), 31–37. |
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| Raven, J. (2000) | Psychometrics, cognitive ability, and occupational performance, | Review
of Psychology, 7 (1-2), 51-74. |
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| Raven, J. (1998) | The Conceptualisation of Competence | Unpublished | |
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| Raven, J. (1998) | "Learning Societies", "Learning Organisations", and "Learning" - and their implications for concepts of competence, its development, and its assessment | Unpublished | |
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| Raven, J. (1998) | Professional Competence: Its Nature, Development, and Assessment Present Perspectives and Future Issues | Unpublished | |
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| Raven, J. (1998) | Psychology, Economics, and the Public Welfare | Unpublished |
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| Raven, J. (1997) | Can we discuss policy if nothing is what it seems to be? | Journal for Mental Changes, III(1) 85-103. |
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| Raven, J. (1997) | Educational research, ethics and the BPS. Starter paper and peer reviews by P. Mortimore, J. Demetre, R. Stainthope, Y. Reynolds and G. Lindsay. | Education Section Review, 21(2), 3-26. |
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| Raven, J. (1997) | J. C. Raven and Contemporary Psychology, | The Bulletin - Newsletter
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| Raven, J. (1997) | Open Dialogue: Education, Educational Research, Ethics and the BPS, | BPS Education Section Review, 21 (2), 3-26. |
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| Court, J.H. (1995) | A Researcher's Bibliography for Raven's Progressive Matrices and Mill Hill Vocabulary Scales. | CD | Available on CD from Harcourt Assessment, TX. | |
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| Raven, J (1995) | Managing society: The past belonged to economists: The future belongs to psychologists. | Journal of Mental Changes, 1(2), 7¬46. |
The New Wealth of Nations: Complete book available to order or download
| Raven, J. (1995) | The New Wealth of Nations: A New Enquiry into the Nature and Origins of the Wealth of Nations and the Societal Learning Arrangements Required for a Sustainable Society. | Book
Can also be ordered directly from the author. |
US: Royal Fireworks Press
UK: Competency Motivation Project |
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Individual Chapters available as PDFs
Chapter 1 |
Introduction and Overview |
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Chapter 2 |
The State of the World: The Environment, Population, International Debt and Interest, Status of the Social Fabric |
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Chapter 3 |
Preliminary Observations on the Nature of Modern Societies, Wealth, and Wealth Creation | |
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Some Observations On Money | |
| Chapter 5 | Some Observations On Prices | |
| Chapter 6 | The Marketplace and Classic Economic Indicators | |
| Chapter 7 | Manufacturing, Wealth, Money, and Management | |
| Chapter 8 | Our Misplaced Faith In Market Processes | |
| Chapter 9 | Privatisation | |
| Chapter 10 | The Covert Reasons For Privatisation | |
| Chapter 11 | Has There Been A Conspiracy? | |
| Chapter 12 | Critique of Market Theory and Practice: Conclusion | |
| Chapter 13 | Perceptions of Public-Sector Management | |
| Chapter 14 | Case Studies of Public Provision | |
| Chapter 15 | Obstacles to the Effectiveness of the Public Services | |
| Chapter 16 | Adequacy Of Democracy | |
| Chapter 17 | The Critique Summarised and an Introduction to, and Overview of, Part IV: The Way Forward | |
| Chapter 18 | Alternative Scenarios for the Way Forward | |
| Chapter 19 | Running Modern Society Effectively: An Overview | |
| Chapter 20 | Using Systems Diagrams to Guide Social Action | |
| Chapter 21 | Creating a Pervasive Climate of Innovation | |
| Chapter 22 | Public Participation and Network Management | |
| Chapter 23 | A New Understanding of Democracy | |
| Chapter 24 | Arrangements for Policy Evaluation and Improvement | |
| Chapter 25 | Summary | |
| Chapter 26 | Practical Implications | |
| Notes | |
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| References | |
| Authors (Year) | Article Title | Publication, Volume and Page No.s | Publisher | Order / View | |
| Raven, J. (1995) Translated by Xiaoguang Translation |
The New Wealth of Nations in Chinese: 新国富论 |
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| Raven, J. (1995) | The Universities, the development of competence and public policy, | Capability Volume, 1 (3), 3-6 |
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| Raven, J. and Sime, J. (1994) | The Computerised Edinburgh Questionnaires. | Edinburgh: Competency Motivation Project, |
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| Raven, J. (1994) | School Improvement Kit: Pilot Version. | Edinburgh: Competency Motivation Project, 30 Great King Street., Edinburgh EH3 6QH. |
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| Managing Education for Effective Schooling: Complete book available as PDF with bookmarks to all chapters and sections |
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| Raven, J. (1994) | Managing Education for Effective Schooling: The Most Important Problem is to Come to Terms with Values. | Book | Trillium Press. | |
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Selected Chapters available as PDF
| Chapter 1 | Overview | |
| Chapter 2 | Education has centrally to do with values | |
| Chapter 3 | The competencies required at work and in society |
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| Chapter 4 | The nature of competence |
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| Chapter 5 | Schools neglect their main goals; worse: they are socially dysfunctional |
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| Chapter 6 | How do effective teachers foster high-level competencies? | |
| Chapter 7 | Why do schools neglect their main goals? | |
| Chapter 8 | The internal organisation of the system | |
| Chapter 9 | The Role And Function Of Public Sector Bureaucracy And Its Interface With The Public | |
| Chapter 10 | The organisation and facilitation of research | |
| Chapter 11 | The way forward | |
| References | |