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Biographien können nicht nur als gesellschaftlich kontextualisierte, narrative Sinnkonstruktionen erscheinen, sondern als ein »Un/doing« in ihrer prozesshaften Zeitlichlichkeit und Materialität. Lea Spahn stellt diese leibkörperliche Dimension von sozialer Praxis ins Zentrum ihrer Untersuchung. Durch die Verschränkung von biographietheoretischen, praxeologischen und phänomenologischen Zugängen fokussiert sie auf die leibkörperliche und somatische Dimension von Existenzen. Sie differenziert Praktiken des Improvisierens heraus und entwickelt Alter(n) als eine Schlüsselthematik, in der Subjekte praxisspezifische (Um-)Bildungsprozesse durchleben und als eigensinnige, somatische Akteure auftreten.

Higher Education; Educational Policy and Politics; International and Comparative Education

The capability of Fuzzy Logic in the development of emerging technologies is introduced in this book. The book consists of sixteen chapters showing various applications in the field of Bioinformatics, Health, Security, Communications, Transportations, Financial Management, Energy and Environment Systems. This book is a major reference source for all those concerned with applied intelligent systems. The intended readers are researchers, engineers, medical practitioners, and graduate students interested in fuzzy logic systems.

Electronic Literacies is an insightful study of the challenges and contradictions that arise as culturally and linguistically diverse learners engage in new language and literacy practices in online environments. The role of the Internet in changing literacy and education has been a topic of much speculation, but very little concrete research. This book is one of the first attempts to document the role of the Internet and other new digital technologies in the development of language and literacy. Warschauer looks at how the nature of reading and writing is changing, and how those changes are being addressed in the classroom. His focus is on the experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse learners who are at special risk of being marginalized from the information society. Based on a two-year ethnographic study of the uses of the Internet in four language and writing classrooms in the state of Hawai'i--a Hawaiian language class of Native Hawaiian students seeking to revitalize their language and culture; an ESL class of students from Pacific Island and Latin American countries; an ESL class of students from Asian countries; and an English composition class of working-class students from diverse ethnic backgrounds--the book includes data from interviews with students and teachers, classroom observations, and analysis of student texts. This rich ethnographic data is combined with theories from a broad range of disciplines to develop conclusions about the relationship of technology to language, literacy, education, and culture. Central to Warschauer's discussion and conclusions is how contradictions of language, culture, and class affect the impact of Internet-based education. While Hawai'i is a special place, the issues confronted here are similar in many ways to those that exist throughout the United States and many other countries: How to provide culturally and linguistically diverse students traditionally on the educational and technological margins with the literacies they need to fully participate in public, community, and economic life in the 21st century.

Title in English: Business performance in the context of customer satisfaction, backflows, quality, innovation and knowledge. The subject of this publication is the research of customer satisfaction and its connection with company performance, quality, innovation and knowledge. The main goal is to analyse the mutual relations of the above factors, including their systematisation on the basis of empirical findings in companies across industries in the Czech Republic. The publication offers a theoretical analysis of the basic relationships of the above factors and discusses them with the results of the analysis of primary data from companies. The purpose is to clarify to what extent connections assumed in the literature are reflected in the Czech environment and how much they influence the subjective and objective performance of companies. Both types of indicators were used in the construction of analytical models revealing that results based on them differ, and that models within the different indicators also differ.

The Speech Therapy Program of the Universidad Santiago de Cali, offers to the students and professionals of speech therapy the present textbook; in it they will find a series of approaches and orientations for the work of speech therapy in the specialty of orofacial myofunctional therapy. The book begins with the historical contextualization of the profession of phonoaudiology in the world, Latin America and Colombia, to later integrate the history of orofacial therapy and orofacial motricity in the same areas; at the same time it describes the beginnings.

This open accesspublication presents a global panorama of institutional strategies, academic programs, scholarly insights as well as teaching and learning practices taking stock of the Future Skills Turn taking place in higher education. Future Skills have evolved to be one of the most important priorities for the development of higher education institutions globally. Students and graduates learn how to acquire Future Skills for their lives and careers and for shaping societies towards more sustainable futures. Institutions, teachers and policy makers gain insights into strategies to shape the Future Skills Turn in higher education and create the University of the Future.

It is argued in most academic literature that Business Model (BM) is a general model for how any business runs or should be run, it is the "blueprint of the business". Conversely we argue that no business has just one BM, one model on which it runs all its business or intends to run its business. In other words the BM can be used for "as-is" and the "to-be" businesses. However our research, in contrast to the other BM frameworks, indicates that businesses have more BMs - both "as-is" and "to-be" BMs - the multi business model approach. This was already theoretically indicated by Markides and Charitou in 2004, and again in the Casadesus-Masanell and Ricart model of 2010, but sadly no one in the BM community has followed up on this since then. It could have made a breakthrough in our understanding of BMs, Business Model Innovation (BMI) and Strategic BMI. The Multi Business Model Innovation Approach addresses the concerns in the BM community and in BMI practice to just focus on the ideation and conceptualization of BMs. "BM canvassing", innovating BM building blocks or BM dimensions when carrying out BMI, so-called "blind business model innovation", is not sufficient to run and understand a business today. BMs and BMI must address all the different levels in a business. All BMs are objects to BMI and should be used to maximize the performance and sustainability of the business. The core business and all levels BMs, such as BM dimension components, BM dimensions, BM portfolio, and Business Model Ecosystem (BMES), should all be considered for BMI. The book addresses and documents a gap in BM research and the BM community - but also proposes a generic definition and language of a BM and BMI layers. The significance and importance of this work is related to significant and unexplored possibilities that BMI offers today, and can offer tomorrow. When we thoroughly understand all levels, dimensions and components of the business and its business models, and we are able to communicate, work and innovate with business models at all levels together, then a next step in BM and BMI research and practice can be taken. It is proposed that any BMs are related to seven dimensions- value proposition, user and/or customer, value chain functions (internal), competence, network, relations and value formulae. It is further proposed that seven different levels of a BMI from the most detailed level - the BM dimension component - to the BM dimension, BM, BM portfolio, business, and the vertical and horizontal business model ecosystem layer - and these can be objects to BMI. Conceptually, the Business Model Cube was formed using the seven dimensions which could be used both in a 2D and a 3D version.

The capability of Fuzzy Logic in the development of emerging technologies is introduced in this book. The book consists of sixteen chapters showing various applications in the field of Bioinformatics, Health, Security, Communications, Transportations, Financial Management, Energy and Environment Systems. This book is a major reference source for all those concerned with applied intelligent systems. The intended readers are researchers, engineers, medical practitioners, and graduate students interested in fuzzy logic systems.

Après la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, la France se range parmi les puissances victorieuses: elle occupe une partie de l’Allemagne, elle est membre permanent du Conseil de Sécurité de l’ONU, elle se place à la tête d’un vaste empire colonial, elle rayonne sur le plan intellectuel, sa situation démographique se relève. Est-elle pour autant une grande puissance ? Les Français dans leur ensemble, en sont persuadés en 1945. Trois ou quatre années plus tard, le doute s’installe ; le déclin est-il là ? Pourquoi, comment, quand, les responsables politiques, les dirigeants d’entreprises, les administrateurs civils, les chefs militaires, et môme l’opinion publique - si un tel terme possède un sens réel - ont-ils compris le changement qui mène la France vers un autre rang ? En utilisant les textes de l’époque, les déclarations des -décideurs’, tout comme les extraits de la presse, en suivant les actions des acteurs de la modernisation économique, en scrutant la vie politique déjà instable, un groupe d’historiens français tente de répondre à ces délicates questions. Il s’agit tout simplement de la place de la France en Europe et dans le monde, dans ce moment où Guerre Froide et pauvreté pèsent sur notre vie quotidienne. Les contemporains percevaient-ils la marche de leur temps? Les textes réunis dans cet ouvrage ont été préparés par une délégation française pour un Colloque européen tenu en R.FA en 1984 (colloque d’Augsbourg). Cette réunion s’inscrit dans le projet de recherche des historiens européens sur “La Perception de la Puissance en Europe autour de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale" qui s’est développé entre 1982 et 1988. Voir "La Puissance en Europe 1933-1940", Publication de la Sorbonne, 1984.

This book is the result of a series of deep and holistic explorations of the human condition, through a successions of intellectual and emotional journeys that are articulated through powerful metaphors that converge in scenarios of interpellation, such as rurality, memory, the river and weaving. Throughout its pages, a series of lived experiences are intertwined that, in the form of narratives, invite the reader to reflect on the human condition from multiple perspectives —childhood, mothers, peasants— and to consider the importance of a radical ethical approach in understanding these stages. This work, framed within the research carried out in human sciences, among other aspects, emphasizes the need for a fabric that encompasses the totality of the human, rejecting rigid categorizations and embracing the richness of the experiences lived by the Others. From childhood, perceived as a spring of emerging life, to adulthood and the worlds of peasant life, where stories of resilience and wisdom are woven, the book becomes a celebration of human diversity. Interculturality and the dialogue of knowledge emerge as fundamental pillars for the construction of more just and supportive societies, where every voice is heard and every experience is valued. The authors, three researchers in the field of human sciences, invite the reader on a reflective journey that not only seeks to enrich academic understanding, but also to nurture an ethical and transformative praxis. This dialogical and relational approach is evident in each chapter, offering a multifaceted vision of the world of life and proposing a comprehensive look at the lived experiences of the human condition.

La Fédération de l’Éducation nationale occupait une place originale dans le paysage syndical français, jusqu’en 1992. Elle s’éteint alors en donnant naissance à l’UNSA Éducation et à la Fédération syndicale unitaire. Elle avait acquis une telle influence politique que les enseignants étaient associés à la définition des politiques éducatives. Cette organisation tirait-elle sa particularité de ce qu’on qualifie volontiers de corporatisme, de sa forte représentativité ou encore de son unité maintenue ? Le dépôt de ses correspondances, comptes rendus de réunions, photographies, enregistrements sonores au Centre des archives du monde du travail permet un nouveau regard. Fruit d’un travail pluridisciplinaire, cet ouvrage reproduit une sélection de documents et comprend une bibliographie exhaustive ainsi qu’une présentation des archives de la FEN. Historiens, sociologues et archivistes ont croisé leurs analyses sur les doctrines et les pratiques du syndicalisme enseignant et les ont confrontées aux avis et témoignages des acteurs, offrant ainsi un éclairage inédit. Comment la FEN parvenait-elle à préserver un univers et un horizon communs tout en s’accommodant d’une diversité de positions revendicatives, d’idéologies, de cultures professionnelles en son sein ? Le jeu des tendances notamment laissait libre cours à un rapport original aux autres organisations (syndicats ouvriers et étudiants, mutuelle…). Cette histoire de la conquête d’une autonomie de la société enseignante marque encore les mobilisations contre les politiques actuelles, que ce livre aide à comprendre.

Während Mode zumeist entweder als sozialpsychologisches Phänomen gesehen oder als wirtschaftlicher Faktor analysiert wird, ist es das Anliegen dieses Buches, Mode als allumfassendes kulturelles Phänomen sowie als einen zentralen Teil unseres kulturellen Alltags darzustellen. Mit Hilfe der Cultural Studies wird nicht nur die Interdisziplinarität von Mode, sondern auch die Verbindung zwischen Mode und Kultur analysiert, und damit veranschaulicht, wie Mode Kultur formt und selbst von ihr geformt wird. Mit dem Kulturkreislauf (Circuit of Culture) geben die Cultural Studies eine perfekte Plattform, um sämtliche Aspekte dieser Vernetzung von Mode und Kultur ansprechen, analysieren und mit Fallbeispielen belegen zu können: Identität, Repräsentation, Produktion, Regulierung und Konsum.

How were accounts of war told in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern era? The contributions to this volume pursue this question in an innovative way through the combination of historical and literary methodologies. With the aid of this interdisciplinary approach, the texts examine storytelling practices and strategies which dissolved genre barriers between factual and fictional texts, thereby expanding insights with regard to their presentation of experience. This volume is not only a pioneering work of cultural studies research, but also an example of successful and productive interdisciplinary collaboration.

London is one of the world’s leading cities. It is home to an extraordinary concentration and diversity of people, industries, politics, religions and ideas, and plays an important role in our highly globalised and tightly networked modern world. What does the future hold for London? Investigating any aspect of the city’s future reveals a complex picture of interrelations and dependencies. The London 2062 Programme from University College London brings a new, cross-disciplinary and highly collaborative approach to investigating this complexity. The programme crosses departmental boundaries within the university, and promotes active collaboration between leading academics and those who shape London through policy and practice. This book approaches the question of London’s future by considering the city in terms of Connections, Things, Power and Dreams.