148 research outputs found
Undervisermetroen – www.undervisermetro.au.dk
No full textUndervisermetroen er et studiemiljøprojekt som udspringer af AU’s Studiemiljøundersøgelse 2011, og har pædagogisk kompetenceudvikling af og mere systematisk viden- og god praksisdeling mellem undervisere som formål. Metroen består af underviserbidrag og er konciperet af Lene Tortzen Bager, Gitte Wichmann-Hansen, CUDiM, og projektstyret, samlet og redigeret af Peter Stray Jørgensen, Lotte Rienecker og webredaktører Charlotte Albrechtsen og Anni Pedersen. Projektet er forlænget og udvikles nu videre i hele 2012. Selve metroen er en blivende resurse. ”Faculty Metro” is one of over 30 study environment projects at the Faculty of Arts, University of Aarhus, to come out of the study environment investigation, 2011. The purpose is development of teaching competencies and a forum for sharing good teaching and learning practices among faculty. The metro lines and stops contain multimodal good practice descriptions produced by faculty, edited by the Humanities department’s Center for Teaching Development and Digital Media. The idea is conceived by Lene Tortzen Bager and Gitte Wichmann-Hansen. Pedagogical and web crew in 2012 are Peter Stray Jørgensen, Lotte Rienecker, Charlotte Albrechtsen and Anni Pedersen. The metro is a permanent resource
Undervisermetroen – www.undervisermetro.au.dk
No full textUndervisermetroen er et studiemiljøprojekt som udspringer af AU’s Studiemiljøundersøgelse 2011, og har pædagogisk kompetenceudvikling af og mere systematisk viden- og god praksisdeling mellem undervisere som formål. Metroen består af underviserbidrag og er konciperet af Lene Tortzen Bager, Gitte Wichmann-Hansen, CUDiM, og projektstyret, samlet og redigeret af Peter Stray Jørgensen, Lotte Rienecker og webredaktører Charlotte Albrechtsen og Anni Pedersen. Projektet er forlænget og udvikles nu videre i hele 2012. Selve metroen er en blivende resurse. ”Faculty Metro” is one of over 30 study environment projects at the Faculty of Arts, University of Aarhus, to come out of the study environment investigation, 2011. The purpose is development of teaching competencies and a forum for sharing good teaching and learning practices among faculty. The metro lines and stops contain multimodal good practice descriptions produced by faculty, edited by the Humanities department’s Center for Teaching Development and Digital Media. The idea is conceived by Lene Tortzen Bager and Gitte Wichmann-Hansen. Pedagogical and web crew in 2012 are Peter Stray Jørgensen, Lotte Rienecker, Charlotte Albrechtsen and Anni Pedersen. The metro is a permanent resource.</p
Who Would Even Want to Be a Living Karnavol? Tonči Kukoč Bager as the Carrier of the Local Carnivalesquesness
No full textPitanje koji su kriteriji odabira nositelja karnevalskoga predstavljanja autorica nastoji rasvijetliti kroz lik Tončija Kukoča Bagera i kroz njegov položaj unutar bolske lokalne zajednice. Pritom o Bageru ne raspravlja kao o osobi izraženih predstavljačkih vještina; govori o liku Bagera, onakvom kakvim ga određuju odnosi unutar zajednice i grupna potreba za figurom koja će grotesknim prerušavanjem kritički preispitati uvriježene svakidašnje norme.An insight into ethnographic and folklore material on Croatian carnival customs leads to the conclusion that attention was seldom paid to the criteria for choosing carriers of transgressive disguising and performance. The author attempts to illuminate this issue in a case study conducted in Bol on the island of Brač, where the leading character is Tonči Kukoč Bager, a man perceived by his fellow townsmen as a person with exceptional inclination for ludicrous performances. In so doing, she does not analyze the personality of Bager as someone owing great presentational skills; she discusses the figure of Bager, as it is determined by relationships within the community and by the group’s necessity for a figure which would occasionally question the border between social order and disorder using grotesque disguise. In the well known narratives about Bager’s “otherness” the author recognizes the means of his exotization within the local community. She analyses the moments which Bager chooses for his performances, and concludes that Bager’s carnivalesque transgressions are not carried out only in the frame of Carnival customs; the comic events in Bol gain their legitimacy by Bager’s performative presence, which sometimes also turns serious segments into parody. Furthermore, the author presents most common Bager’s roles and ways of transformation, with a special emphasis on the gender reversal roles. She shows the construction of Bager into a trademark of Bol, as it is presented in the media discourse. Finally, the author concludes that Bager is needed in the community as much as he needs its members to be his audience; for the people of Bol his performances are a welcome periodical break from the everyday life, a whit of disorder placed within the local “normality”
Panel proposal: A Discourse Activist Perspective on Organizational Storytelling
No full textIn the panel diverse discursive approaches to storytelling are discussed with special attention on their potential to foster organizational reflexivity and change. We engage methodological - theoretical, analytical and philosophical - discussions and its implications for practice. For instance, discussions on key concepts and main understandings of aspects such as narratives, stories, dissent, discourse, power, ethics, organizational change together with the position of the involved discourse scholar. Hence, it contributes to the field of Organizational Discourse Studies (ODS), in which scholars are actively involved in dealing with local organizational challenges (cf. Grant & Iedema, 2005; Alvesson & Kärreman, 2011; Iedema, 2011). According to several discourse scholars narration and storytelling is viewed as important daily activities that (re)shape reality and identities with certain local and future consequences (Bager, 2015, 2016; Bamberg, 2005, 2011; Czarniawska, 2015; Taylor & Van Every, 1999; Cooren, 2015). Storytelling is understood as situated, plurivocal, multimodal and embodied interactional features that constitute discourses, identities and realities in a dialectical interplay between local and broader discursive dimensions (cp. discourse with respectively a lowercase d (discourse1) and a capital D (discourse2); Gee, 1999; Nicolini, 2009, 2016; Iedema, 2003). Storytellers co-author stories/narratives and discourses in local settings that involve a plurality of voices and often run counter to more crystallized narrative and discursive structures, such as political organizational and societal structures. (cp. Bakhtinian heteroglossia; Bager, et. Al, 2016, Bager, 2015; Bakhtin, 1982, 1993). The panel invites approaches that address the ‘smallness’ and the more unformal dimensions of organizational storytelling practices such as small stories (Bager, 2016; Bamberg, 1997, 2006; Bamberg & Georgakopoulou,, 2008), counter-narratives (Bamberg & Andrews, 2004, Boje et al, 2016; Frandsen, Kuhn, & Lundholt, 2016) ante-narratives (Boje, 2011; Boje et al, 2016; Svane, In press), dialectical Storytelling (Boje, 2016a, 2016b), performative storytelling (Arendt, 2003; Butler, 2015; Jørgensen, 2016, 2017), true storytelling and the like. Attention is paid to how discourse scholars can oscillate between diverse discursive organizational levels spanning from local here-and-now situations to broader organizational, political and societal spheres (Nicolini, 2009, 2016). The normative and ethical scope is to challenge organizational crystallized ways of saying and doing things together with the socio material and political practices that such activities are embedded in (cp. reflexivity in action; Cunliffe, 2003; Cunliffe & Coupland, 2011; and Butler’s reflexive undoing). The main objective is to foster dissensus-based (Deetz, 2001), democratic, egalitarian and multivoiced organizational and societal practices. Invited contributors and title of their presentations:Kenneth Mølbjerg, Professor, AAU, Dept. of Business and Management: Storytelling and the space of appearance in enacting Organizational ChangeMarita Svane, Associate Professor, AAU, Dept. of Business and Management: Storytelling and Performative Grounded TheoryAnn Starbæk Bager, Assistant Professor, AAU, Dept. of Communication and Psychology: Dialectical Discursive Storytelling in Organizational TransformationsLise-Lotte Holmgren, Associate Professor, AAU, Dept. of Culture and Global Studies: Recruiting who?: A narrative approach to studying organizational change Henrik Koll, Ph.d. scholar, SDU, Dept. of Language and Communication: Countering the ‘corporatization’ narrative: Exploring struggles for organizational hegemonyJens Larsen, Author and founding Partner at Old Friends Industries & Lena Bruun, Partner at Old Friends Industries: True Storytelling - Bridge the gap between ongoing changes and longing for meaning in the organizationAnders Horsbøl, associate Professor, AAU, Dept. of Communication and Psychology: Locally counteracting international crises: narratives of municipal agency References: Arendt, H. 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Theorising and analysing plurivocality and dialogue in organizational and leadership development practices:Discussion and discourse analysis of dialogic practices in a leadership development forum
No full textIn this thesis Ann Starbæk Bager conducts research on organizational dialogic development practices. She scrutinizes and challenges the taken-for-grantedness of such as naturally positive phenomenon with attached positive, involving and emancipating outcomes. An in depth theorization of dialogue is offered through the lens of Bakhtinian dialogicality assisted by perspectives from Foucauldian governmentality and discourse studies and its implications for organizational and leadership studies are discussed. On this basis an ethnographic inspired analysis (a combined process and embodied discourse analysis) is conducted of dialogic practicing and identity work in a participatory dialogue, dissensus and research based leadership forum hosted in Danish university settings. Among other things the analysis pictures leadership as serious and complex phenomenon filled with ambiguities and paradoxes. It further reveals how in situ dialogic practices mainly are seen to eclipse, instead of the intended ideals of furthering, diversity and plurivocality. Based on analytical findings the author elaborates an ethics of dialogue and discusses an anticipated methodological framework for doing organizational discourse activism that seeks to further co-production of dissensus based and plurivocal knowledge and participatory development of leadership communicative practices
Agriculture and Co-operativism, a Persistent Duality: The Case of Denmark
No full textThe paper argues that co-operativism in Danish agriculture represents both continuity and strong changes from the start of the movement as the economic branch of a comprehensive social and political movement to the large agro-industrial enterprises of today, and that co-operativism still is a necessary tool for both large scale production and for innovation within the agro-industrial sector. After a short description of the role of co-operative thinking and organising in the Danish context historically, the paper presents a statistical overview of the current position of co-operative societies in Danish agriculture on the background of the structural changes that have occurred in primary agriculture and agro-industry during the last generation and a half. The third section presents historical conditions and experiences of co-operativism that have paved the way for the characteristics of the current relation between agriculture and co-operativism. Finally, challenges to this relation are discussed in the context of market trends within the established sectors and new areas of agricultural activities – using the example of organic production.Agribusiness,
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No full textAnders Peter Rose was born November 8, 1828 in Vejle, Denmark and died December 8, 1921 in Hyrum, Cache County, Utah. Spouses: Mette Maria Johnsen Christiansen, Jacobine Ernst, and Jensine Kjerstine Jensen Bager
Measuring and modelling the deteriorating impact of Alkali-Silica Reaction in concrete on the mechanical characteristics
No full textUnaffected and ASR-affected concrete, experimentally, appear as substantially different materials. Since the material characterization is one of the main points of attention within a structural assessment, the deteriorating impact of ASR on concrete in terms of both expansion and degradation of the mechanical properties is studied. Both experimental and modelling approaches are followed.Applied Mechanic
Theorizing plurivocal dialogue:Implications for organizational and leadership studies
No full textThe present chapter explores a Bakhtinian perspective on dialogicality and its implications for participatory research processes in the field of organi- zational and leadership studies. In addition to Bakhtin, the theoretical basis stems from notions from Foucauldian governmentality and organizational discourse studies. These perspectives are elaborated on and implemented to frame, discuss and criticize the methodological basis of a case study which the author helped to initiate: a plurivocal, participatory research- based leadership forum involving professional leaders, researchers, and postgraduate students. The article is merely based on a theoretical and ide- alistic discussion and does not reflect/document concrete interaction. Through this I elaborate on a new theoretical framework for the under- standing of plurivocal participatory research processes. Dialogicality serves as the theoretical basis for the analysis. The article discusses how the Bakhtinian conception of dialogue offers a particular way of framing power, participation, meaning-making, knowledge pro- duction, and identity work in relation to the leadership forum and collab- orative research processes in general. Dialogicality is posited as a positive alternative to, and as means for counteracting, mainstream liberal human- istic approaches with dialogue-inducing perspectives of dissensus rather than consensus. The chapter argues that dialogicality demands the culti- vation of dialogic wisdom (Barge & Little, 2002) through the enactment of dialogic participation (Jabri et al., 2008) in open-ended meaning-mak- ing processes that hold in balance unity (centripetal forces) and diversity (centrifugal forces), which are intrinsic to interaction (and the heteroglos- sic nature of the language of life) (Bager, 2013). The participants are viewed as subjects in processes accommodating diverse and often opposing 172  voices that produce vision surpluses through the systematic and ongoing accommodation of otherness. Dialogicality is claimed to allow one to re- trieve the real (Iedema, 2010 er det Iedema & Carroll, 2010?) and con- sider the messiness and tensions immanent in (organizational) interaction and the co-authoring of knowledge. This approach carries great potential for challenging crystallized knowledge forms and taken-for-granted ways of doing things (dispositifs and authoritative discourses).The present chapter explores a Bakhtinian perspective on dialogicality and its implications for participatory research processes in the field of organi- zational and leadership studies. In addition to Bakhtin, the theoretical basis stems from notions from Foucauldian governmentality and organizational discourse studies. These perspectives are elaborated on and implemented to frame, discuss and criticize the methodological basis of a case study which the author helped to initiate: a plurivocal, participatory research- based leadership forum involving professional leaders, researchers, and postgraduate students. The article is merely based on a theoretical and ide- alistic discussion and does not reflect/document concrete interaction. Through this I elaborate on a new theoretical framework for the under- standing of plurivocal participatory research processes. Dialogicality serves as the theoretical basis for the analysis. The article discusses how the Bakhtinian conception of dialogue offers a particular way of framing power, participation, meaning-making, knowledge pro- duction, and identity work in relation to the leadership forum and collab- orative research processes in general. Dialogicality is posited as a positive alternative to, and as means for counteracting, mainstream liberal human- istic approaches with dialogue-inducing perspectives of dissensus rather than consensus. The chapter argues that dialogicality demands the culti- vation of dialogic wisdom (Barge & Little, 2002) through the enactment of dialogic participation (Jabri et al., 2008) in open-ended meaning-mak- ing processes that hold in balance unity (centripetal forces) and diversity (centrifugal forces), which are intrinsic to interaction (and the heteroglos- sic nature of the language of life) (Bager, 2013). The participants are viewed as subjects in processes accommodating diverse and often opposing 172  voices that produce vision surpluses through the systematic and ongoing accommodation of otherness. Dialogicality is claimed to allow one to re- trieve the real (Iedema, 2010 er det Iedema & Carroll, 2010?) and con- sider the messiness and tensions immanent in (organizational) interaction and the co-authoring of knowledge. This approach carries great potential for challenging crystallized knowledge forms and taken-for-granted ways of doing things (dispositifs and authoritative discourses)
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