Issues with Innovative Humanity Programs: Possible Solutions for Initiating Them at Applied Higher Education Institutions

The study deals with the issues with innovative humanity programs and tries to draw some possible solutions for initiating them at applied higher education institutions. It focuses on the problems while the construction and development of a department needs to transform itself from traditional operation type to innovative ones. Our study employees the literature review method to analyze the construction of applied higher education institution. Findings show that the talent training program, the evaluation system, and the organizational pattern would be the current problems applied higher education institutions met. Furthermore, the study indicates that the goals of the construction to the department, the evaluation system, and the development of the teachers are the possible solutions to the problems. Specifically, the managers of the applied higher education institutions should focus more on the integration and utilization of the resources, including cross-department, cross-school, cross-industry, integration, and collaborative development mechanism is recommended.

The Organizational Pattern of Theses for Graduates in B.A. in English Language Teaching

Research is a fundamental factor for the development and improvement of any area of study, however, the English Language Teaching (ELT) undergraduate programs in Mexico usually fail to promote research in their schools. This is the case of the ELT the undergraduate program of the Escuela de Lenguas, Campus Tapachula in the Autonomous University of Chiapas (UNACH as for its initials in Spanish), where little is known by the school about the organizational pattern of the submitted theses by trainees. This is a descriptive study that seeks out to reveal how these are structured in the Escuela de Lenguas, Campus Tapachula. This research is going to be carried out by applying questionnaires to trainees, graduates, thesis-supervisors, and members of the reading committee and conducting a documentary analysis of the theses submitted from 2012 to 2019 to detail how they are structured. It was discovered that most of the theses are composed of four chapters, yet most of the participants agree on the theses of five chapters. According to the results obtained, two different outlines were designed varying in the number of chapters and the elements included in each one.

Philosophic Money. The Contemporary Art System as a Market and Cultural Agent

Within the contemporary art system complex, constantly-changing cultural features coexist with stratified acts of dealing. The art market operates as a collective mediation structure, developing a multiple agency: financial and economic, educational, political and social. In this article, we offer the result of an empirical test dedicated to the identification of unseen changes in the informal organizational pattern of the market. Observing the behavior of selected samples, we focused, firstly, on the networks of artists and commercial galleries at the Art Basel fair; and, secondly, on the group and solo shows organized by a relevant sample of international contemporary art museums and exhibitions spaces. These analyses offer an insight into the changes that occurred from 2005 to 2013, encompassing the quantitative growth of the art system infrastructure and the effects of the crisis of 2008.

Departmentalization in Elementary Schools: Contradictions Teachers Confront

This paper presents analyses of observational and interview data gathered in a study of exemplary fourth-grade teachers from five states. The central issue explored is the relative merits of self-contained and departmentalized models of instruction. We found no achievement differences in the classrooms by organizational pattern, but differences in the instruction offered in these two models were identified, and mixed views of the relative advantages of either organization plan were expressed by the participants. A key tension was whether these organizational plans are intended to primarily benefit teachers or students. However, the complexities of the cost/benefit concerns are the findings that this study highlights.

New Public Institutional Forms and Social Innovation in Urban Governance: Insights from the “Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics” (MONUM) in Boston

This paper investigates how public sector institutions change their form and approach to achieve a socially innovative urban governance. The “Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics” (MONUM) in Boston, Massachusetts (USA) proves a representative case of innovation in the public sector. As a new type of government agency, it is essentially an open innovation lab dedicated to innovative evidence-based policymaking. Following a new dynamic organizational pattern in urban governance, MONUM is conducive to project-oriented social innovation practices and horizontal multi-sectoral collaboration among the three societal sectors: public, private, and civil. Its results suggest that first, the peculiarity of MONUM lies in its hybrid and boundary-blurring nature. Second, new institutional forms that experiment with urban governance can rely on multi-sectoral collaboration. Third, MONUM has experimented with a systemic approach to social innovation following the “design thinking theory.” The MONUM case can contribute to the current debate in Europe on the need to harmonize EU policies for an effective social inclusion by promoting the application of the place-sensitive approach.

Poetics through Body and Soul: A Plurimodal Approach

In this presentation, I will show that various multimodal resources—such as utterance, prosody, rhythm, schematic images, and bodily reactions—may integratively contribute to the holistic achievement of poeticity. By incorporating the ideas from “ethnopoetics” (Hymes 1981, 1996) and “gesture studies” (McNeill 1992, 2005), I will present a plurimodal analysis of naturally occurring interactions by highlighting the interplay among the verbal, nonverbal, and corporeal representations. With those observations, I confirm that poeticity is not a distinctive quality restricted to constructed poetry or “high” culture, but rather an endowment to any kind of natural discourse that is co-constructed by various semiotic resources. My claim specifically concerns a renewed interest in an ethnopoetic kata ‘form/ shape/ style/ model’ embraced as performative “habitus” among Japanese speakers (Kataoka 2012). Kata, in its broader sense, is stable as well as versatile, often serving as an organizational “template” for performance, which at opportune moments may change its shape and trajectory according to ongoing developments. In other words, preferred structures are not confined to an emergent management of performance, but should also incorporate culturally embedded practices with immediate (re)actions. In order to promote this claim, I explore a case in which mutually coordinated performance is extensively pursued for sharing sympathy and camaraderie. Such a kata-driven construction was typically observed in a highly involved, interactional interview about the Great East Japan Earthquake, in which both interviewer and interviewee were recursively oriented and attuned to the same rhythmic and organizational pattern consisting of an odd-number of kata. Based on these observations, I argue that indigenous principles of organizing discourse are as crucial as the mechanisms of conversational organization, with the higher-order, macro cultural preferences inevitably infiltrating into the micro management of spontaneous talk.

Social Observatory as a new space for civil society and government relationships in Belém, Pará State, brazilian Amazon

The article analyses the Social Observatory (SO) as a new arena for civil society, market and government dialogues and incidence on public policy. Specifically, the article examines the extent to which SO is an arena for a constructive dialogue to implement and to manage public policy for urban mobility at municipal level. It deals with the case of SO of Belém municipality, Pará State. Belém is the largest municipality in the Brazilian Amazon region in terms of population and socioeconomic structure for development. The paper shows that OS may constitute a significant participative arena which brings civil society and local government to take collective decision based on dialogue and transparency of information.­­­­ However, since it is a new organizational pattern, the OS still have many difficulties and challenges, whether of internal character, whether in its relation to other actors in the municipal public, private power and civil society.

Disaster Management Concept of Muhammadiyah Disaster Management Centre in Ponorogo, Indonesia

Muhammadiyah Disaster Management Centre as an organization under Muhammadiyah Union, has a unique disaster management model, although it has not been established yet, MDMC has proven its existence. This progress is very interesting because it is very closely related to the Islamic concept which makes this organization different from other organizations. This background is very interesting to study. Besides, the concept and pattern of MDMC organization has not been popularly identified yet. This study aims to know and describe management disaster concept proposed by Muhammadiyah Disaster Management Centre (MDMC). It is to verify organizational pattern and Muhammadiyah Disaster Management Centre (MDMC) profile. This study utilizes interpretative paradigm with qualitative model. Based on the study conducted, it can be summarized that Al-Maun spirit has influenced and characterized MDMC organization on implementing disaster management activities. The spirit is reflected by how the management of mutually supportive organizations to achieve common goals. It is in order to help each other or (mustadi'in). This is achieved by having partnership with Muhammadiyah autonomous institutions, as well as other parties such as government and private parties. There is a humanist concept beyond Al-Maun spirit. It is sharing and caring for people. It is implemented by MDMC through disaster management activities, from identifying, reconstructing, rehabilitating, to normalizing the victims. Seen from its existence, these activities lead MDMC to have a good vision in implementing disaster management.

An Urban/Modern Version of Tribe: “The Kalenderi/Hiyyi Association” / Aşiretin Kentsel/Modern Bir Versiyonu Olarak Kalenderi/Hiyyi Derneği

This article focuses on an “existing tribe” (regarded as a pre-modern social organization representing rural society) to reorganize/transform itself as a civil society organization (the “ideal” organization of modern society and urban life). The efforts and strategies of tribes for reviving and sustaining themselves in urban life are analyzed over the narratives of the “well educated, skilled and urban” members of the Executive Board of “The Kalenderi/Hıyyi Association” (KHA). In big cities, the establishment of associations by the migrants coming from the same ethnic/religious community or the same locale is a common thing. But KHA is not a migrant solidarity association, it is located in its “homeland”. A well-educated group of tribesmen put a special emphasis on the preservation of former relations and traditions in modern urban life and establish the KHA. During the research, it is observed that other urban tribesmen (from all world) effectively uses cyber space, while respond the call for “unity” from their “relatives”. The association regards “all tribe, as a community of broader relatives” and utilizes technology effectively to contact these “broader relatives”. This type of organizational behavior brings a unique and effective perspective on organizational pattern of tribes. The article argues that new forms of tribes such as “cyber tribes” could emerge in future (for instance, tribes ruled by “elected” leaders or tribes reorganized in different modern forms ranging from solidarity associations, pressure groups, corporations or else). In all these “modern” forms, the prerequisite of membership will be “traditional” (being a “member” of “the tribe”). The cyber space also may give birth to its own leaders and these “cyber leaders” (especially of social online platforms) may gather new generation tribesmen around themselves and challenge the “traditional leadership”.