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HELIN Library Consortium LORI Grant Statewide Digital Repository Project for Rhode Island -- New Commons Consulting Proposal
Get PDFNarrative and budget submitted by Robert Leaver of New Commons on the scope of work to be provided by New Commons to support the development of the RI Digital Repository and by the Reckoner Group to develop the prototype and website for this endeavor
Developing “new commons” between HRD research and practice: Case studies of UK universities
No full textPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on a Forum for HRD initiative to proactively engage with HRD practitioners to develop “new commons” in the research-practice nexus. Researchers joined a community of UK university HRD practitioners, negotiated a research project mapping the terrain of HRD practice, explored how research informed these are and identified future practice relevant HRD research.
Design/methodology/approach – The research process is described as grounded in relationship building and collaboration. Researchers utilized qualitative research methods to develop small-scale empirical research and explore HRD practice in four case study universities and the UK Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.
Findings – Findings are presented in the following themes: organizational approaches to HRD; underpinning philosophies and interventions as research informed and contracting and evaluating external providers and identifies opportunities to develop new commons between theory and practice via collaborative partnerships between the Forum for HRD and UK university HRD practitioners.
Research limitations/implications – Future empirical research which is practice relevant is necessary in the area of evaluation of non-accredited HRD interventions, the challenges of developing leadership and management in UK HE and the HRD research-practice nexus.
Practical implications – The paper has valuable implications for bridging the space between HRD research and practice; it surfaces the practitioners' “lack of voice” within the profession and field of HRD and the lack of opportunities for the development of individual HRD practitioners.
Originality/value – The link between practice and theory within universities should be more developed, as HRD academics, a theoretical resource, are also “clients” of a University's HRD approach in practice. The research highlights how the reverse is the case, with the link between theory and practice under developed
Voluntary Action in New Commons
Get PDFA major new social, economic, political and cultural space (actually, a sector of many spaces) we can call the new commons has gradually emerged outside of markets, governments and households. It currently goes by many names and reaches far beyond the recognized and incorporated nonprofit sector to include many additional forms of voluntary assembly and organized action. This space is legally defined and is the domain of fundraising, volunteering, advocacy, mutual aid, self-help and various forms of collective behavior. It includes associations, groups and clubs but also constitutionally protected assembly - not only public gatherings but also parades, festivals, cosmopolitan canopies like the Reading Market in Philadelphia where a wide variety of people can peacefully gather, and a diverse variety of forms of collective behavior including crowds, street corner societies, jazz and art \u27scenes\u27 and, of course, online and digital \u27communities\u27 and \u27commons\u27 of many types. A common thread characterizing all of these diverse activities is that they are all new commons - legally enabled and protected, (as opposed to the old commons of history that were traditional, customary and largely without legal protection or sanction; a condition that made them highly vulnerable to \u27enclosure\u27. These new commons include not only social but also cultural organizations including social movements, social problems and diverse other \u27knowledge commons\u27. New commons have only recently begun to be recognized as a single class, category or group. In part this is because they have been studied under many different names in many different disciplines and research fields, even though they share certain commonalities. Throughout much of the world today new commons are legally protected and enabled by a penumbra of international, national and state/provincial laws. They function voluntarily on the basis of common resource pools for the achievement of common purposes or missions. Among the intrinsic effects of these new commons are the emergence of social capital, including relations built on trust and arrays of social networks, common identity formation for participants and the formation, defense and projection of norms, values and practices. When a new social movement seeks a major change in society, the rise of new commons will ordinarily follow. If a new social problem is detected, an array of new commons can be expected to emerge to define it, identify its characteristics and work out practices and procedures for dealing with it. Likewise, in the arts, the organizational structure of the institutional complex termed an ‘art world’ has all the characteristics of a new commons. New commons are an important component of civil society, basic to the idea of philanthropy as the love of the human condition, and offer one possible pathway to future development of democratic society and culture
Dining Hall - New Commons Director
No full textNew commons director Ray Ayres sits at his desk, 1962.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/john_foster_photos/4113/thumbnail.jp
Dining Hall - New Commons Kitchen
No full textA woman prepares food in the giant steam kettles in the new commons kitchen, 1962.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/john_foster_photos/4109/thumbnail.jp
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
Students eating in the New Commons, 1997
No full texthttps://rdc.reed.edu/v1/resources/d74c5265-44c2-4751-a9f8-3b1097d53bd5/thumb/128.jpgStudents eating in the New Commons, 1997
HELIN Consortium LORI Grant Final Report New Commons
Get PDFFinal report on the work of New Commons for the LORI grant to help develop KnowRI, a digital repository and portal. New Commons served as the project and communications manager for the RI Digital Portal and Repository projec
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
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