711 research outputs found
The Gunnar Ekelöf Room and the Poet’s Widow as Archivist and Author
No full textThe Gunnar Ekelöf Room is a reconstructed memorial museum of the late home of the Swedish modernist poet at the Sigtuna Foundation not far from Stockholm. While Gunnar Ekelöf’s original manuscripts are archived at Uppsala University Library, their copies are accessible in the duplicate so-called Home Archive, set up by his widow Ingrid Ekelöf and housed in the Gunnar Ekelöf Room, as is also the extensive correspondence between her and the literary critic Brita Wigforss. Guided by cultural memory studies and archival studies which regard archives and writers’ houses as texts and media, this chapter explores how the Home Archive through this correspondence recounts its own origin, thereby offering new aspects of the metonymic principles that generally guide archival work.</p
"Thou Shalt Make No Graven Maps!": An Interview with Gunnar Olsson
No full textThe author spoke with renowned Swedish geographer Gunnar Olsson about maps, GIS and the power of imagination in both history and geography
Re:Reading piece on author Gunnar Hansen of Northeast Harbor. Hansen wrote I
No full textRe:Reading piece on author Gunnar Hansen of Northeast Harbor. Hansen wrote Islands at the Edge of Time, and recently worked on the screenplay for a documentary produced by the Penobscot Nation
Influence of prospective science teachers' development of epistomological beliefs [Abstract]
No full textBrauer H, Wilde M. Influence of prospective science teachers' development of epistomological beliefs [Abstract]. In: Boström L, Augustsson G, Evans C, Cools E, Charlesworth ZM, eds. Education, Learning, Styles, Individual differences Network (ELSIN) 18th Annual International Conference. 2013: 94-95
The complexities of leisure-time center staff’s leadership in the leisure-time center learning environment
No full textThis paper studies leisure-time center staff (L-tCS) leadership based on the concepts of leadership perspective and leadership style. The purpose is to understand how L-tCS describe their work in terms of leadership in the didactic room by answering the following open-ended question in an online survey: How would you describe your leadership in the learning environment? The study was carried out through an analysis of 355 responses, and the analysis was based on previous research on the relationship of frame factors to the learning environment. The findings demonstrate, firstly, that there are often frame factors with negative effects on the work climate and that limit the L-tCS’s capacity to vary their leadership and, secondly, that the L-tCS use widely different leadership perspectives and leadership styles. The choice of a specific perspective or a possible shift between different perspectives helps the staff to define the current situation from a specific point of view
Temporary and regular workers fulfill their tasks side-by-side, but in different learning conditions
Get PDFPurpose – The purpose of this study is to identify temporary workers' (temps') expected conditions for learning when they are leased to a client company (CC) for numerical flexibility. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis is based on a phenomenological approach containing 121 transcribed interviews with employees and managers who were active in more than 10 CCs' in seven industries and from seven temporary work agencies. Findings – One important finding is that the CC expects temps not to learn something about the surrounding organization, but to limit themselves only to the concrete tasks assigned to them. Another is that temps' opportunities to influence organizational conditions in the CCs seem to be cut off in a strategic way. Research limitations/implications – Results are valid for interviewees' expressed thoughts and expectations about temps' workplace learning, not about an actual separation between knowledge and actions in the working conditions. Practical implications – CCs associate temps with learning backgrounds that allow them to perform subordinate tasks, such as routine, instructional, or regulatory duties. They associate regular staff with more advanced learning backgrounds and tasks more directly related to occupation and workplace. CCs could benefit from accepting the exchange of knowledge and competence between temps and the company, rather than neglecting it. Originality/value – The originality of this paper lies in its contribution to the relatively unexplored topic of workplace learning and leaders and employees' expectations of temps.
The client company marginally utilises the knowledge of highly skilled temporary staff
No full textThis study is based on the presumption that there is often an underuse of temporary staff in client companies (CC) with highly skilled professionals. The study combines theories of the flexible organisation and a sociocultural perspective on learning within the framework of an inter-organisational context. The data are based partly on 17 transcribed, semi-structured interviews with individuals in various types of health care and social services. The data are also based on two semi-structured focus group interviews with managers responsible for hiring social workers, nurses and doctors in two different temporary work agencies (TWA) as well as semi-structured focus group interviews with eight managers from a large health care organisation. The results show that CCs only use a limited amount of the highly skilled personnel’s capacity and exclude preconditions for taking over and absorbing knowledge from temporary workers. This contradicts the idea that staffing allows temps to increase their skills and enhance their employability. In addition, both TWA and the CC pronounce an interest in and readiness for deepening the business relationships between them, but they claim the other is responsible for initiation. The results reflect information not only about temporary workers with higher education but also the new business relationship between TWA and CC in the form of combined skills and workplace validation.Published online 6th Jan 2015.</p
Building learning capacity for life - Proceedings of the 18th annual conference of the Education, Learning, Styles, Individual differences Network
No full textDa síntese do lugar. O Crematório do Bosque, Gunnar Asplund
Get PDFTendo como objecto o Crematório do Bosque, obra ancorada num autor, num lugar, e num contexto, a presente dissertação propõe uma análise arquitectónica a partir da interpretação do processo de desenho de Gunnar Asplund.
Este estudo pretende, a partir do mapeamento das diferentes fases do projecto, valorizar o seu processo de concepção e reflectir sobre a relação entre aquitectura e paisagem propondo, assim, a leitura do seu processo de desenho enquanto síntese do lugar onde se insere.Having as an object the Woodland Crematorium, a work anchored in an author, in a place and in a context, this dissertation proposes an architectural analysis from the interpretation of Gunnar Asplund's drawing process.
This study intends, through the mapping of the different phases of the project, enhance its design process and reflect on the relationship between architecture and landscape, proposing the reading of its design process as a synthesis of the place where it is inserted
A presumptive pigovian tax on gasoline : analysis of an air pollution control program for Mexico City
Get PDFWithout continuous monitoring of emissions, a pollution control agency needs to evaluate abatement options itself. Apart from making activities cleaner, it should also stimulate reductions in the level of activity in polluting sectors. The author develops an analytical framework to show that a tax on a variable input, such as gasoline, is useful for this purpose. It encourages individuals and firms to sacrifice trips when they would prefer those sacrifices to those of higher spending on abatement. The instrument exploits privately held information about which trips can be saved at a low social cost. Other weaknesses of a program based on indirect instruments - as opposed to one induced by a theoretically conceived pollution tax - remain. One of these is that the agency may have poorer information than individuals and firms about the status of vehicles and the effectiveness of individual abatement options. Such an information gap - which could be bridged by a true pollution tax - is abstracted from the analysis. The author shows that the tax rate that belongs in a cost-effective pollution control program is independent of the price elasticity of demand for the polluting good. But the higher the demand elasticity, the higher are the costs of not including a presumptive tax on the polluting good in the tool kit of the pollution control agency. The author estimates the cost savings available when an optimal gasoline tax is included in an otherwise well-composed program, appropriately accounting for the welfare costs ofdemand consumption. He shows that the targeted emission reductions can be obtained at 11 percent lower costs, saving 350 million a year. After recent price increases, implicit tax rates in Mexico City are higher than suggested by the author's analysis. Higher rates may or may not be justified due to the benefits of demand conservation not accounted for in the analysis.Energy and Environment,Pollution Management&Control,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Transport and Environment
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