Impact of E-Business Technologies on Public and Private Organizations: Industry Comparisons and Perspectives
The development and implementation of new e-business technologies has a significant impact on organizations and their relationships within and outside their boundaries.
Learning Through Practice: Models, Traditions, Orientations and Approaches (Professional and Practice-based Learning)
Practice-based learning—the kind of education that comes from experiencing real work in real situations—has always been a prerequisite to qualification in professions such as medicine. However, there is growing interest in how practice-based models of learning can assist the initial preparation for and further development of skills for a wider range of occupations. Rather than being seen as a tool of first-time training, it is now viewed as a potentially important facet of professional development and life-long learning. This book provides perspectives on practice-based learning from a range of disciplines and fields of work.
Philosophical theorizing about language now involves an increasing emphasis on empirical work and a renewed convergence with philosophy of mind, formal semantics and logic. This new text reflects this evolution. 'Philosophical Perspectives on Language' is distinguished in several important respects from other introductions to the topic. Rather than looking at philosophy of language as a collection of (at best) loosely related topics - speech meaning, etc. - this book is organized around a unifying theme: language as a system of symbols that is known and used.
Improving Schools and Educational Systems - International Perspectives
School improvement has become a dominant feature of educational reform in many countries. The pressure upon schools to improve performance has resulted in a wide-range of improvement programmes and initiatives which can provide both inspiration and advice to everyone involved in school improvement. This book draws together the most effective school improvement projects from around the world in one comprehensive text, including detailed comparative analysis of a wide variety of initiatives. Drawing on examples from the UK, the USA, Canada, South Africa and Australia this book gives both an international snapshot and a coherent synthesis of initiatives that have given achievable results.
The Plenitude: Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff
Lessons from and for the creative professions of art, science, design, and engineering: how to live in and with the Plenitude, that dense, knotted ecology of human-made stuff that creates the need for more of itself. About the Plenitude from the seemingly contradictory perspectives of artist, scientist, designer, and engineer—all professions.
