scholarly journals The SAC as a Community of Practice: A Case Study of Peer-Run Conversation Sessions at the Universidad del Caribe

2015 ◽  
pp. 313-321
Author(s):  
Elvira del Carmen Acuña González ◽  
Magdalena Avila Pardo ◽  
Jane Elisabeth Holmes Lewendon
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Present Article ◽  
The Self ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Advance Knowledge ◽  
Over Time

The present article describes how the development of the ‘conversation sessions’ in the self-access centre (SAC) fostered a Community of Practice (CoP) as theorised by Lave & Wenger (1991). Our SAC is at a government-funded university in Cancun, Mexico. The conversation sessions were implemented with the aim to offer our EFL students the opportunity to practice speaking on a regular basis to complement their English programme. These peer-run conversations, in turn, are one of the key elements that led to the creation of a CoP where SAC users and personnel share a repertoire of resources and conventions created over time in order to form, transmit and advance knowledge.

scholarly journals SERVQUAL, SELF-ASSESSMENT THE USE OF THE SERVQUAL MODEL FOR THE COMPOSITION OF SELF-ASSESSMENT IN HEI, CASE STUDY: FACULDADE DO LITORAL PARANAENSE - ISEPE

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 382-389
Author(s):  
Sebastião Cavalcanti Neto ◽  
Ivan Travassos ◽  
Cleverson Molinari Mello
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
The Self ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Direct Communication ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

The present article intends to identify the levels of satisfaction of the Faculdade do Litoral Paranaense ISEPE, in order to assess the results in relation to the five Dimensions structured in the Self-assessment being the Tangible Dimensions of Confidence, Responsibility, Security and Empathy. With that it adapted the model SERVQUAL developed by Parasuraman, Zeithaml and Berry (2006) and with the scale of Likert establishing a structured questionnaire in order to establish a direct communication with the academics and users. The general objective of this work is to adapt this model to be used in the Institutional Self-Assessment process of the Faculdade do Litoral Paranaense - ISEPE Guaratuba, seeking to verify the feasibility of the use of these models. After the results obtained and analyzed during the research, it is necessary to appreciate the management of the Institution with the objective of improving the quality of the services provided by the Institution, which are included in the dimensions surveyed.

Designing Dynamic Logotypes to Represent Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-30
Author(s):  
Jéssica Parente ◽  
Tiago Martins ◽  
João Bicker ◽  
Penousal Machado
Keyword(s):  
Female Students ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Academic Information ◽  
The University ◽  
Over Time

This work explores how data can influence the design of logotypes and how they can convey information. The authors use the University of Coimbra, in Portugal, as a case study to develop data-driven logotypes for its faculties and, subsequently, for its students. The proposed logotypes are influenced by the current number of students in each faculty, the number of male and female students, and the nationality of the students. The resulting logotypes are able to portray the diversity of students in each faculty. The authors also test this design approach in the creation of logotypes for the students according to their academic information, namely the course and number of credits done. The resulting logotypes are able to adapt to the current students, evolving over time with the departure of students and admission of new ones.

scholarly journals Teaching in Grief: Critical Reflections, Redefining Justice, and a Reorientation to Teaching

2016 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Cherie Moore
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
The Self ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Police Custody ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Narrative Method ◽  
Teaching Transformation ◽  
Over Time

Since the creation of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, many scholars from historically underrepresented communities have revisited discourse on social movements. Many supporters of the #BlackLivesMatter movement are outsiders participating in solidarity with organizers across the globe.  But what happens when questions of police brutality and injustice adversely impact your family and your career? Using the self-narrative method and grief framework, the author describes her teaching transformation in a pilot Multicultural Education course immediately following the death of her cousin in police custody. The author describes how the terms injustice, action, and pedagogy changed over time and took on new meanings during an extended grieving period.

scholarly journals Improving the Praxis of Conversation Club Leaders in a Community of Practice: A Case study in a Self-Access Centre

2019 ◽  
pp. 165-180
Author(s):  
Pamela Sigala Villa ◽  
Adelina Ruiz-Guerrero ◽  
Laura María Zurutuza Roaro
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
The Self ◽  
Effective Practices ◽  
Foreign Language Proficiency ◽  
Club Leader

The role that a conversation club plays in the improvement of foreign language proficiency of its users in a self-access centre varies according to the strategies a conversation club leader applies. This paper reports the changes made by conversation club leaders (CCLs), who formed a community of practice (CoP) under the methodology of Knowledge Management (KM) to become aware of the effective and non-effective practices they employed through recording themselves, sharing their experiences, listening to each other, and analyzing their performance. A total of six conversation club leaders participated in the case study that took place in 2016. The outcome was a series of strategies generated by the CCLs and shared with all new CCLs in the self-access centre.

scholarly journals From enthusiasts to systematic innovation: the journey of building the innovation function in a large industrial organization

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Júlio Cézar Fonseca de Melo ◽  
Raoni Barros Bagno ◽  
Beatriz Costa Pinto Rio ◽  
Mario Sergio Salerno ◽  
Ana Valéria Carneiro Dias ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Organization ◽  
Structure Evolution ◽  
Retrospective Case ◽  
External Agents ◽  
Innovation Projects ◽  
Organizational Function ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Retrospective Case Study ◽  
Over Time

Abstract: The creation of a management system to systematically promote innovation is a great challenge for large companies. Some authors argue for the creation of a dedicated organizational function (the Innovation Function – IF) to guide this system. This paper aims to understand how a large company builds an Innovation Function from a longitudinal and retrospective case study. Some aspects regarding the emergence of the IF, its organizational structure evolution, and changes on its team’s scope of action are discussed. The main results highlight the importance of key actors for IF’s recognition by the organization, serving as connecting mediators to other functions and external agents. Besides that, specific competence accumulation, gradual legitimacy acquisition, and project intermediary results enabled the team to deal with radical innovation projects over time.

scholarly journals The Author’s Two Bodies: The Death of Qu Yuan and the Birth of Chuci zhangju 楚辭章句

T oung Pao ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 105 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 259-314
Author(s):  
Heng Du
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Textual Production ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Textual Traditions ◽  
Chinese Texts ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Two Bodies

AbstractWhile recent studies of early Chinese texts increasingly eschew the term “author,” the present article defends the utility of this term by proposing a generalizable framework for conceptualizing author claims. Using Qu Yuan as a case study, I demonstrate that the construction of the author, both historical and putative, uniquely contributes to the finalization—rather than the creation—of texts, transforming open and evolving textual traditions into closed and stabilized entities. The creation of the author thus stands at the threshold between textual production and reception, often serving as an indispensable condition for the latter. By applying this approach to the study of the Chuci zhangju, I offer a new definition of the textual strata within this compilation.

scholarly journals Átila, Rei dos Ostrogodos? Um estudo acerca de Identidades Imaginárias na Antiguidade Tardia * Attila, King of the Ostrogoths? A study on Imaginary Identities in Late Antiquity

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 318
Author(s):  
OTÁVIO LUIZ VIEIRA PINTO
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
The Creation

<p><strong>Resumo: </strong>O presente artigo busca explorar questões historiográficas concernentes ao período da Antiguidade Tardia, localizando a criação e fluidez de identidades como um dos principais focos de análise. Para apreciação analítica e problematização deste panorama, apresentamos um estudo de caso específico: a relação entre ostrogodos e hunos nos séculos V e VI. Argumentando em favor de uma relação tribal muito mais intensa do que se imagina, visamos apresentar problemas retóricos na documentação e propor uma abordagem que forneça novas perspectivas para a historiografia ostrogótica e, ao mesmo tempo, abra espaço para revigorados estudos acerca de identidades na Antiguidade Tardia e Primeira Idade Média.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chave</strong>: Ostrogodos – Hunos – Etnicidade – Antiguidade Tardia.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Abstract: </strong>The present article aims to explore historiographical questions concerning Late Antiquity, understanding the creation and fluidity of identities as one of the main analytical focuses for the period. To approach such panorama, a case study will be presented: the relation between Ostrogoths and Huns in the fourth and fifth centuries. Arguing in favor of a much closer tribal relationship, rhetorical issues concerning the sources are unfilled and an approach able to trigger new perspectives to Ostrogothic historiography are proposed – at the same time, opening space to renewed studies on identities during Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages.</p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>Ostrogoths – Huns – Ethnicity – Late Antiquity.</p>

Sociohistorical Self-Choreography: A Second Dance with Castoriadis

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-104
Author(s):  
Joshua M. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Present Article ◽  
The Self ◽  
Fatal Flaw ◽  
Cornelius Castoriadis ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
The Creation

Abstract Twentieth-century Greco-French philosopher, economist, psychoanalyst and activist Cornelius Castoriadis offers a creative new conception of imagination that is uniquely promising for social justice. Though it has been argued that this conception has one fatal flaw, the latter has recently been resolved through a creative dialogue with dance. The present article fleshes out this philosophical-dancing dialogue further, revealing a deeper layer of creative dialogue therein, namely between Castoriadis’ account of time and choreography. To wit, he reconceives time as the self-choreography of the sociohistorical, in which performance the sociohistorical plays two dancing roles simultaneously, both choreographer and choreographed dancer. More precisely, as interpreted by Castoriadis in a late essay, the creation and emergence of forms in time consists of a poetic “scansion” or “scanning” of time. Thus, the sociohistorical is both choreographer and dancer, poet and reader, reinterpreting the poetic text of time as the music for its evolving dance.

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