Relations and Distance Schooling

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Giorgio Crescenza
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Different Levels

Due to the unprecedented period which has swept over educational agencies, as well as society as a whole, it is appropriate to try to learn and understand the first effects of these transformations operating on different levels: educational, formative, relational, and social. This contribution intends to develop some reflections on the different dimensions which have affected more than others the educational, formative, and scholastic experience, paying particular attention to the educational relationship and the modifications in teaching. The analysis takes as its starting point some empirical data from an exploratory study at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre. The role of the school on the path of cultural humanisation of the human being is then presented, followed by a critical discussion on how the teaching and relational changes that have inevitably been introduced this year fit into this path. Lastly, the conclusion considers how to transform the crisis which has struck schools at the heart into an opportunity for thinking about them with a wider perspective.

COMPLEMENTARY PRODUCT CATEGORIZATION AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE MAKE, BUY, AND ALLY DECISION: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY

2020 ◽  
pp. 2150006
Author(s):  
YAMUNA BABURAJ ◽  
DANIEL TZABBAR ◽  
VADAKE NARAYANAN
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Technology Strategy ◽  
Knowledge Capital ◽  
Complementary Products ◽  
Personal Computing ◽  
Complementary Product ◽  
Computing Industry ◽  
Different Dimensions

The role of complementary products is becoming increasingly important in facilitating innovation and has become a pivotal aspect of an organisation’s technology strategy. To address the lack of a useful framework that captures the different dimensions of product complementarity, this paper proposes a categorization for complementary products centered on user engagement. Based on a sample of 305 make, buy, and ally decisions for 32 primary product firms in the Personal Computing industry, this paper explores the influence of the proposed categorization on its strategy decision for developing complementary products. Results suggest a nuanced categorization of product complementarity adds value to explaining the decision, with the firm’s knowledge capital having a non-trivial influence on it. This paper endeavors to contribute to the literature on platform innovation by examining significance of inter-product relationships on strategy.

Assessing sonic affects in everyday life: looking for metacognition and metaemotion

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Paiva
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Everyday

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how material gathering and elicitation can induce metacognition and metaemotions in interviewees and its usefulness for the study of affective phenomena. Design/methodology/approach – The author will draw on the exploratory study on sound affects conducted with five individuals in Lisbon’s metropolitan area in order to discuss these aspects. After presenting the methodology, the author will address the concepts of metacognition and metaemotion. Afterwards, the author will explain how these occur during the gathering of data by ordinary people and the use of elicitation of materials during interviews. Findings – Metacognitive and metaemotional experiences can be triggered through material gathering and their elicitation during interviews with the purpose of identifying aspects of the everyday experience that are usually unnoticed. Furthermore, they are instrumental to obtain empirical data that illustrates subjects in their everyday lives as simultaneously affective-reactive and reflexive, meaning-making individuals. Originality/value – The interview has often been disregarded as a method for interpreting affective phenomena. However, the author argue that this method remains very useful to address the distinct interpretations that subjects make of themselves and their emplaced experiences, by calling for attention to the role of metacognition and metaemotions, an instrumental yet unrecognized tool for interpreting affective phenomena.

Creative Industries and the Urban Hierarchy

2008 ◽  
pp. 42-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Baum ◽  
Tan Yigitcanlar ◽  
Kevin O’Connor
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Creative Industry ◽  
Urban Hierarchy ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Many ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Policy Discussion

As the 21st century progresses, the most successful economies and societies will be creative ones. Worldwide, governments are producing strategies to encourage the development of creative industries and to strengthen the role of knowledge cities nationally and internationally. There is significant policy discussion regarding the role of creative clusters in strengthening local economies and significant energy has been expended discussing the many positive outcomes of such developments. This chapter takes these issues as a starting point and considers the role of creative industries within broader concerns regarding regional development. Referring to data and analysis on the urban and regional geographies of creative industries the chapter considers the extent to which places at different levels of the settlement hierarchy can successfully develop creative industry nodes.

Strategy in History and (versus?) in Economics: A Review of Lawrence Freedman's Strategy: A History

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 1119-1134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avinash Dixit
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discussion ◽  
End Point ◽  
Practical Strategy ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Business Politics ◽  
Game Theoretic

This essay reviews Lawrence Freedman's book Strategy: A History. The main themes—definitions, strategies in war, business, politics, and revolutions—are overviewed. The value of game-theoretic thinking for practical strategy is assessed. A critical discussion of some concepts and dichotomies emphasized by Freedman, e.g., strategy is governed by the starting point, not the end point, and of the role of stories and scripts in strategy, follows. (JEL A11, A12, C70, D74)

Participatory Sense-Making in Therapeutic Interventions

2021 ◽  
pp. 002216782110002
Author(s):  
Enara García
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Gestalt Therapy ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Reflective Consciousness ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Mutual Regulation ◽  
Different Levels

Given the holistic and phenomenological character of Gestalt therapy, the body has a primordial role in enhancing the here and now experience of the client. In order to examine the role of embodiment in therapeutic interventions more closely, this article applies Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of corporeality and its development in the embodied and enactive cognitive sciences to the study of therapeutic interventions. Taking Merleau-Ponty’s theory of Fundierung as starting point, the article describes the enactive idea of sense-making as the movement from prereflective to reflective consciousness, a movement that is driven by the primordial valence of affectivity and e-motion. As a process of participatory sense-making, mutual regulation between therapist and client can happen at different levels of consciousness. Here, in addition to the well-known declarative (reflective level) and resonance-based (prereflective level) interventions, I will focus on interventions that operate between levels which constitute a genuine modality of embodied therapeutic interventions. I introduce the notion of cross-salience as the prefigurative participation of the therapist’s reflective consciousness in the client’s sense-making process. I will illustrate this idea by the analysis of an intervention extracted from Fritz Perls’ work Gestalt Therapy Verbatim.

scholarly journals Role of cultivation conditions in potato sloughing as indicated by CPEM method

2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (No. 9) ◽  
pp. 403-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Hejlová ◽  
J. Blahovec
Keyword(s):  
Potato Variety ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Cooking Time ◽  
Cultivation Conditions ◽  
Stable Variety ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Growing Conditions ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Effective Mass Method

The new CPEM (cooked potato effective mass) method was used to study the sloughing of a potato variety grown in two successive years in six regimes given by different levels and forms of fertilisation and irrigation. The sloughing process is characterized by the cooking time, i.e. the starting point of disintegration, and by the speed of disintegration. Both parameters are also evaluated in dependence on tuber density in linear models of cooking and disintegration stages. Effects of different cultivation regimes were observed in both stages. The sloughing sensitivity to tuber density expressed via the cooking time seemed to be a relatively stable variety parameter independent of growing conditions. The fertilisation reduced the level of sloughing, i.e. higher cooking time values (<i>P</i> < 0.0023), and at the same time lower disintegration rates (<i>P</i> < 0.006) were indicated for fertilised tubers. No influence of irrigation was observed in our study.

scholarly journals Das Selbst und die Gegenwart der Verantwortung. Über das Verantwortungskonzept in der hermeneutischen Phänomenologie von Paul Ricœur

Labyrinth ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Yvanka B. Raynova
Keyword(s):  
Hermeneutic Phenomenology ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Main Thesis ◽  
The Will ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Philosophical Writings ◽  
Different Levels

A peculiarity of Paul Ricoeur's philosophy is his effort to elaborate a hermeneutic phenomenology of the Self on the roots of reflexive philosophy. Thus, the problem of responsibility, which Ricoeur debated on different occasions, appears in the context of the Self as an acting, suffering and capable subject which is not only responsible for its own acts but has also duties in respect to others. Ricoeur's hermeneutics of "l’homme capable" (the capable human being) analyzes responsibility on different levels – historical, ethical, political, juridical etc. The main thesis of the author is, that this levels of responsibility constitute the different dimensions of the will of the Self "to engage itself with" which should be recomposed hermeneutically in order to capture responsibility as an integral phenomenon. At the difference of some authors who offer only a partial interpretation of the problem of responsibility in Ricoeur's work, the following article aims to give a holistic one by reconstructing it through the complex evolution of Ricoeur's philosophical writings.

scholarly journals Multicultural Society as a Challenge for Coexistence in Europe

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 615
Author(s):  
Nenad Malović ◽  
Kristina Vujica
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
European Society ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Starting Point

The aim of this article is to show that the intercultural way of education, which includes the interreligious dimension, is a fundamental way to create and maintain conditions for coexistence in a multicultural society. The background of this claim is represented in the belief that the starting point of every encounter with the other and the different should be the human being and its experience of humanity, not an intellectual polemic about doctrines and ideologies. Schools are particularly suitable for such a more personal manner of dialogue. The topic is discussed primarily in a philosophical way from a Christian (Catholic) perspective. The context of reflection is the European society marked by Christianity, secularization and, increasingly, Islam. Croatia is also mentioned, as the issue of multiculturality is becoming increasingly topical there. The context of cultural pluralism is presented first. Then, the necessity of dialogue based on the experience of everyday life is highlighted. The next section is focused on the analysis of the multicultural society’s need for values that are acceptable for all members of society in order to maintain social peace and mutual respect and cooperation. The following chapter deals with the difficulties and challenges of dialogue. Then, the section after that presents an analysis of the fundamental European documents that provide crucial guidelines for understanding religious and cultural pluralism and the role of religions in a multicultural and multireligious society as values on which society should be built. Finally, the place and role of religious education is discussed as a vital and unavoidable factor in co-creating the preconditions for appropriate coexistence in a multicultural society.

scholarly journals Phonological awareness and reading in Northern Sotho – Understanding the contribution of phonemes and syllables in Grade 3 reading attainment

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carien Wilsenach
Keyword(s):  
Phonological Awareness ◽  
Phoneme Awareness ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Transparent Orthography ◽  
Northern Sotho ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Grade 3 ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Levels

Background: The role of phonological awareness (PA) in successful reading attainment in Northern Sotho has received some attention. However, the importance of developing an awareness to the different phonological grain sizes that underlie decoding (i.e. to different dimensions of PA) has not been established in this language.Aim: This study assessed different levels of PA in Northern Sotho learners in order to determine the relationship between phoneme awareness, syllable awareness and reading.Setting: The research was conducted in Atteridgeville, a suburb in Tshwane. The participants were Grade 3 learners who spoke Northern Sotho as home language, and who received their literacy instruction in Northern Sotho in the foundation phase.Methods: The research was cross-sectional, with a correlational component. Phoneme awareness was assessed via a phoneme identification and elision task, whereas syllable awareness was assessed with a syllable elision task.Results: Statistical analyses revealed that Northern Sotho learners are significantly better at identifying syllables than phonemes, but that phoneme awareness predicts reading outcomes more accurately.Conclusion: This study suggests that phoneme awareness does not necessarily develop early or automatically in languages with a simple syllable structure and a transparent orthography and evaluates this finding against the predictions of the Psycholinguistic Grain Size Theory. The importance of explicitly teaching phoneme–grapheme correspondences to Northern Sotho learners is highlighted.

scholarly journals The Role of Financial Burden in Nonprofit Sector Commitment

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-204
Author(s):  
Kerry Kuenzi ◽  
Amanda J. Stewart ◽  
Marlene Walk
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Education ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Nonprofit Education ◽  
Study Offer

Evidence about millennial work motivations and the increasing importance of compensation questions the durability of the donative labor hypothesis in explaining nonprofit sector commitment. Nonprofit graduate education offers an employment pipeline into the sector, but what if the importance of compensation is partly driven by the financial burden accrued from education? Could it be that financial burden contributes to choices about work and commitment to the nonprofit sector? Using longitudinal data of nonprofit education alumni, we inquire about their sector commitment in light of the financial burden from their degree. Findings of this exploratory study offer a starting point for future research into how nonprofit education alumni view career opportunities in the nonprofit sector.

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