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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 (Aug 2016) |
Harnessing Social Processes for the Common Good |
A paper prepared for an international interdisciplinary conference organised by the Focolari organisation and the Katholic University of Lublin, Poland. |
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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 (Mar 2016) |
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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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 | |||
[1] Contains some material which could not be included in published version [2] Supporting slides only for seminar [3] Supporting slides and notes for seminar |
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Raven. J. (2010) | Beyond ABC to DEF (Democracy, Entrepreneurship, and Freedom) in Education. | Unpublished | |||
[1] Supporting slides only for seminar [2] Supporting slides and notes for seminar |
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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) | 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) |
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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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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 |
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Raven, J. (2007) | Creating a Future for Homo Sapiens: Transforming the Educational System and Society | Unpublished | |||
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 | Unpublished
Edited version published as Raven, J. (2005). More Problems with Gap Closing Philosophy and Research. American Psychologist 60, 1035-1043. | |||
Hursh, D. (2006) | The Crisis in Urban Education: Resisting Neoliberal Policies and Forging Democratic Possibilities | Educational Review, May 2006 | ![]() |
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Raven, J. (2006) Updated Apr 2011 |
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 | |||
Raven, J. (2006) | Undesirable Human Traits . | Unpublished | ![]() |
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Raven, J. (2005) | Ability, Science, and Ethics | Unpublished | |||
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 | |||
Raven, J. (2002) | Spearman's Raven Legacy, | Testing International, 12 (2), 7-10. |
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SCiO Schwarz, E.(2001) [1] |
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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[1] Originated in 1996 by Dr. Eric Schwarz, Neuchâtel, Switzerland and subsequently extended and elaborated upon by various sources. | |||||
Raven, J. & Stephenson, J. (Eds.). (2001) | Competence in the Learning Society. | Book | Peter Lang. | ![]() |