scholarly journals Building, Growing and Sustaining Global Collaborative Communities

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. e28158
Author(s):  
Jonah Duckles
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
Diverse Communities ◽  
The Future ◽  
Working Together

Agile, interconnected and diverse communities of practice can serve as a hedge on an uncertain world. We currently live in an era of populist politics and diminishing government funding, challenging our collective optimism for the future. However, the communities we build and contribute to can be prepared and strengthened to address the challenges ahead. How we choose to operate in this world of less funding is tied to the collective impacts we all believe we can achieve by working together. How we choose to work together and structure our communities matters.

scholarly journals Adventures in Music Translation: Italian Songs and Arias (aka “The Yellow Book”) and Me

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Lynn Penrod
Keyword(s):  
Art Song ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
The Future ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Italian Songs ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Critical Interest

This article is a general exploration of translation issues involved in the translation and performance of the art song, arguing that although critical interest in recent years has been growing, the problems involved in these hybrid translation projects involving both text and music present a number of conundrums: primacy of text or music, focus on performability, and age-old arguments about fidelity and/or foreignization vs domestication. Using information from theatre translation and input from singers themselves, the author argues that this particular area of translation studies will work best in the future with a collaborative approach that includes translators, musicologists, and performers working together in order to produce the most “singable” text as possible for the art song in performance.

An Introduction to the Handbook, Communities of Practice, and Definitions of Expertise

2019 ◽  
pp. xx-30
Author(s):  
Paul Ward ◽  
Jan Maarten Schraagen ◽  
Julie Gore ◽  
Emilie M. Roth
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

This chapter provides a brief summary of the various communities of practice that have paved the way for current expertise researchers, and are formative of this Handbook. A synopsis follows, detailing how expertise has been defined both historically and in present day. The purpose in this chapter is threefold: To demonstrate the heterogeneity of approaches and conceptions of expertise, to contextualize current views of expertise presented in this Handbook, and to use these views as a springboard to examine how we should examine expertise in the future—which is addressed in the final chapter. Finally, an outline of this Handbook’s chapters are presented.

The Investigation to Identify the SS Jacob Luckenbach – Using Technology to Locate a Hidden Source of Oil that Caused Years of Impacts and the Future Implications of Sunken Shipwrecks

2003 ◽  
Vol 2003 (1) ◽  
pp. 1219-1224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabrielle G. McGrath ◽  
Heather A. Parker-Hall ◽  
John A. Tarpley ◽  
Alan Nack
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Task Force ◽  
The United States ◽  
Alternative Possibilities ◽  
Central California ◽  
The Future ◽  
Common Murres ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Golden Gate Bridge

ABSTRACT From 1992 until 2002, oiled birds, predominantly common murres, were found along the central California coastline during the winter months, but no significant oil slicks were observed. These repeat “mystery” oil spills puzzled investigators for 10 years while several similar cases of bird impacts occurred from November through February to varying degrees each year. In 2001, the same pattern began yet again. The response to oiled wildlife was the most significant to date. Extending over 220 miles of coastline, more than 2000 birds were recovered and transported for care to California's Oiled Wildlife Care Network (OWCN) facility. Motivated by this serious threat to wildlife, federal and state investigators utilized the historical data collected in previous cases combined with current technology to solve the mystery. An extensive Oil Spill Source Identification Task Force was formed consisting of 20 federal and state agents working together to get to the source of the problem. Through these current technologies, including oil sample analysis; satellite, aerial, and on-water observations; and hindcasting, the Task Force was able to eliminate alternative possibilities and focus the investigation on the last potential source, a sunken shipwreck. The Task Force sifted through four different databases of sunken vessels indicating over 700 shipwrecks off of the San Francisco coast alone to establish eight ships as potential targets. During the first underwater search planned to visually investigate each of these vessels, oil was located in the surface waters above the SS JACOB LUCKENBACH, a C-3 freighter sunk in 1953, 17 miles southwest of the Golden Gate Bridge. Analyses of oil samples collected from the vessel's tanks confirmed the LUCKENBACH as the source impacting California seabirds. Further research showed that all possible responsible parties have been absolved of any liability regarding the sinking of the LUCKENBACH. After spending over $3 million on the 1997–1998 and 2001–2002 incidents for the wildlife response alone and with no party from which to recover the funds, the spill response community is faced with an enormous financial task for the future: responding to inevitable oil spills off the coasts of the United States from thousands of deteriorating shipwrecks sunk decades ago with, in most cases, no responsible parties.

scholarly journals Adult education and school programs: The two co-funded ABC Educational TV Services

1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Grahame Ramsay
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Education Services ◽  
Educational Broadcasting ◽  
Present Solution ◽  
School Programs ◽  
The Future

<span>The traditional role of the ABC in supporting education has become more complicated under new funding arrangements to support programs for schools and to introduce adult education. Various options and directions for childrens' and adult education have been debated for some time in the ABC but the present solution incorporates some fascinating elements that had not been foreseen. It has been clear, since 1990, that there was a funding short-fall that would place the future of ABC school broadcasts at risk but the solution adopted is both novel and effective. This article considers how the two education services have come about in the ABC. It ponders how they have gained support in a period of reduced Federal government funding for the ABC when the future of educational broadcasting looked bleak. It also examines how some of the long debated issues, of the role of the ABC as a provider of national educational resources, have been resolved.</span>

scholarly journals ENSURING SUCCESS IN THE FLIPPED CLASSROOM WHEN TEACHING ON- LINE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie J. Myers ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Student Understanding ◽  
Factual Knowledge ◽  
Deep Foundation ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Working Together ◽  
P 16 ◽  
On Line

As teaching moved on-line we had to rethink and readjust what approaches to use in order to reach the outcomes. Adjustments had to be made to the designed activities especially when groups had to meet in breakout rooms. We will present the various aspects that came under scrutiny, as for example, peripheral participation, the development of mini-communities of practice, cooperation, collaboration and mediation. We analyzed instructor’s journal notes and students’ products. There were 53 students in the classes concerned. The main research question is what was effective in making participants improve learning and how did the implementation increase their understanding of working together virtually. The method used is qualitative (Creswell, & Poth, 2018). The instructor took observational notes of processes and actions during planned activities. These notes were analyzed to uncover insights. In addition, student ‘products’ of group work were analyzed for the triangulation of results. Results show that the effort put into creating more engagement in the module brought about a number of interesting results that increased student understanding. Overall, findings show that participants reiterate expectations and summarize them, the repetition allowed a better grasp and this could also be due to the fact that during the reconversion, participants had to make sure they really understood the contents, i.e. ensuring that the meanings were clear which, in turn led to a better intake of specific features. As regards working together, several issues were identified, yet overall, all students were highly successful, due mostly to a supportive approach as regards feedback or a ‘feed-through’ approach. The theoretical underpinnings came from research on learning and pointed to the requirement of additional insights on the part of instructors especially when teaching has to take into account equity, diversity, inclusion and indigenization (EDII). Instruction had to be more connected to students’ lives. Bransford et al (2000) assert that “to develop competence in an area of inquiry, students must: a) have a deep foundation of factual knowledge, b) understand facts and ideas in the context of a conceptual framework, and c) organize knowledge in ways that facilitate retrieval and application” (p. 16).

scholarly journals State-Funded Activism: Lessons from Civil Society Organizations in Ireland

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-243
Author(s):  
Anna Visser
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
State Funding ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Face ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Civil society organizations (CSOs) in Ireland receive significant state funding and institutional support according to the logic that they are important contributors to democratic governance, with the effect that the CSO sector has expanded and become more embedded in formal decision-making processes over the past several decades. At the same time, dependency on government funding exposes CSOs to three important challenges: to stay true to activist mandates in the face of pressure from state funders to focus on service provision; to maintain accountability to constituents while also satisfying the vertically oriented accountability requirements of the state; and to nurture collaboration among CSOs in a context of competition for state funding. University-based activists, who are also reliant on (increasingly scarce) government funding, face similar challenges, and therefore should pay more attention to debates regarding state funding in the CSO sphere. By working together to overcome common challenges associated with state funding, activists in both spheres can more effectively contribute to progressive social change.

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