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Conclusion:The Contested Field of Working and Learning
Get PDFWork in times of globalisation and uncertainty is undergoing considerable changes, which has strengthened the importance of work as a site of learning. New trends in production, such as digitalisation, challenge traditional modes of producing goods and services. Emerging forms of flexible production and knowledge-work offer growing learning opportunities to people throughout their active working life. In contrast to the stable and standardised modes of Fordist production, modern working life is characterised by rapid changes and employees interacting across globally distributed professional and spatial production networks. Based on continuous relationships of mutual exchange and knowledge building between customers, suppliers and producers, these kinds of learning environments are essentially different from those offered in a school setting. More research is needed to explore the opportunities and obstacles to enhance learning through negotiation and boundary-crossing between different areas of expertise and professionalism. We are far from seeing rich learning environments provided to large groups of lowskilled workers in poor working conditions at the bottom of the global supplier chains. This book explores the challenges of working and learning on the boundaries between education and working life. Globalisation affects the transition patterns from vocational education to the labour market in many ways (Schoon & Silbereisen, 2009), even though the specific challenges to national-level policies vary and need consideration
Introduction:Working and Learning in Times of Uncertainty
Get PDFResearch on adult, professional and vocational education in a global world is timely (Farrell & Fenwick, 2007). Globalisation and economic crises are the trends that most dramatically transform the social, political, economic and ecological spheres of our time and directly affect the everyday life of local communities and workplaces. Current challenges set compelling requirements for the working and learning of the members of communities. Over the past decades of adult, professional and vocational education research, researchers have increasingly addressed globalisation and its political, value-based and ethical underpinnings. Work-related learning and the workplace as an arena of learning and education is, in Fenwick’s (2001) terms, a highly political space, in which the requirements of flexibility, specialisation, privatisation, and globalisation “change the nature and environment of work and the desires of workers” (ibid., p. 5). This book contributes to the current discussion on the global developments of working and learning in the fields of adult, professional and vocational education in Europe. These developments are full of paradoxes and contradictions, as Bratton et al. (2008) point out in their critical examination of workplace learning in advanced capitalist economies. It is therefore not an easy task to envision the future work and the learning options it will eventually offer to workers. We are living in times of uncertainty regarding the adult educational challenges on all societal levels of working and learning (Alheit, 2002/2004)
Ledarskap, kommunikation och organisation inom polisen : analyser gjorda inom ramen för polisens ledarprogram: Det indirekta ledarskapet – att leda andra chefer
No full textFörord Polisens utbildning i ”Det indirekta ledarskapet” ges som en uppdragsutbildning av bl.a. Umeå universitet. Inom ramen för dess delkurs 2: ”Ledarskap, kommunikation och organisation”, motsvarande 15 högskolepoäng på grundnivå, skall kursdeltagarna som slutlig examinationsuppgift göra en rapport innehållandes en introduktion, fem delanalysuppgifter och en sammanfattande strategisk handlingsplan. Den skrift du nu har framför dig innehåller ett urval av dessa kursdeltagarnas delanalysuppgifter. Varje kursdeltagare som valt att medverka i publikationen ingår med en av sina fem analyser. Tanken med denna skrift är att använda en pilotkursgrupps (kursgrupp 1, Umeå) erfarenheter och lärdomar som exempel på hur en analysuppgift kan se ut, spännvidden över möjliga teman, men också på olika indirekta chefers analyser av aktuella problem i vardagen. Skriften kan fungera som ett stöd för de kursdeltagare som följer ”Det indirekta ledarskapet” men kan också användas vid andra ledarutbildningar inom Polisen, samt för polisstudenter. Förhoppningsvis bidrar läsandet av dessa analysuppgifter till teoriförankrade tankar och idéer om utveckling av Polisens organisation, ledarskap och kommunikationshantering
Ledarskap, kommunikation och organisation inom polisen : analyser gjorda inom ramen för polisens ledarprogram: Det indirekta ledarskapet – att leda andra chefer
No full textFörord Polisens utbildning i ”Det indirekta ledarskapet” ges som en uppdragsutbildning av bl.a. Umeå universitet. Inom ramen för dess delkurs 2: ”Ledarskap, kommunikation och organisation”, motsvarande 15 högskolepoäng på grundnivå, skall kursdeltagarna som slutlig examinationsuppgift göra en rapport innehållandes en introduktion, fem delanalysuppgifter och en sammanfattande strategisk handlingsplan. Den skrift du nu har framför dig innehåller ett urval av dessa kursdeltagarnas delanalysuppgifter. Varje kursdeltagare som valt att medverka i publikationen ingår med en av sina fem analyser. Tanken med denna skrift är att använda en pilotkursgrupps (kursgrupp 1, Umeå) erfarenheter och lärdomar som exempel på hur en analysuppgift kan se ut, spännvidden över möjliga teman, men också på olika indirekta chefers analyser av aktuella problem i vardagen. Skriften kan fungera som ett stöd för de kursdeltagare som följer ”Det indirekta ledarskapet” men kan också användas vid andra ledarutbildningar inom Polisen, samt för polisstudenter. Förhoppningsvis bidrar läsandet av dessa analysuppgifter till teoriförankrade tankar och idéer om utveckling av Polisens organisation, ledarskap och kommunikationshantering
Ledarskap, kommunikation och organisation inom polisen : analyser gjorda inom ramen för polisens ledarprogram: Det indirekta ledarskapet – att leda andra chefer
No full textFörord Polisens utbildning i ”Det indirekta ledarskapet” ges som en uppdragsutbildning av bl.a. Umeå universitet. Inom ramen för dess delkurs 2: ”Ledarskap, kommunikation och organisation”, motsvarande 15 högskolepoäng på grundnivå, skall kursdeltagarna som slutlig examinationsuppgift göra en rapport innehållandes en introduktion, fem delanalysuppgifter och en sammanfattande strategisk handlingsplan. Den skrift du nu har framför dig innehåller ett urval av dessa kursdeltagarnas delanalysuppgifter. Varje kursdeltagare som valt att medverka i publikationen ingår med en av sina fem analyser. Tanken med denna skrift är att använda en pilotkursgrupps (kursgrupp 1, Umeå) erfarenheter och lärdomar som exempel på hur en analysuppgift kan se ut, spännvidden över möjliga teman, men också på olika indirekta chefers analyser av aktuella problem i vardagen. Skriften kan fungera som ett stöd för de kursdeltagare som följer ”Det indirekta ledarskapet” men kan också användas vid andra ledarutbildningar inom Polisen, samt för polisstudenter. Förhoppningsvis bidrar läsandet av dessa analysuppgifter till teoriförankrade tankar och idéer om utveckling av Polisens organisation, ledarskap och kommunikationshantering
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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