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Professional agency in the stream of change: Understanding educational change and teachers' professional identities
2015
The qualitative meta-study reported here investigated Finnish vocational teachers' professional agency amid an educational reform. Differences were found in teachers' agency regarding their work, their involvement with the reform, and their professional identity. The manifestations of agency could remain stable or could change over time, and agency drew on various resources (e.g. teacher identity and the organizational management culture). The theoretical conclusions encompass professional agency as multidimensional, largely individually varied, temporally imbued, and both socially and individually resourced. Based on the findings, an agency-centered approach is proposed as a means of under…
A Metaphor for Identities in Transition through Urbanization and Globalization: Tofu and One Hundred Surnames
2019
The Chinese artist Chen Qiulin has been taking displacement and the resulting unrest in people’s identity as her persistent theme since the early 1990s. Focusing on a series of her works made since 2004 dealing explicitly with tofu and Chinese surnames, this paper examines her exploration of identities in transition in the context of China’s mass urbanization and globalization. By showing the artist’s conceptual evolution, her preference for materials and mediums, and her exhibition strategy, this paper explores two issues. First, it illuminates how the artist has transformed “tofu” and “surname” into a metaphor for the dilemma of identity under the urbanization in China. Second, it discuss…
Effects of seniority, gender and geography on the bibliometric output and collaboration networks of European Research Council (ERC) grant recipients.
2019
Assessing the success and performance of researchers is a difficult task, as their grant output is influenced by a series of factors, including seniority, gender and geographical location of their host institution. In order to assess the effects of these factors, we analysed the publication and citation outputs, using Scopus and Web of Science, and the collaboration networks of European Research Council (ERC) starting (junior) and advanced (senior) grantees. For this study, we used a cohort of 355 grantees from the Life Sciences domain of years 2007-09. While senior grantees had overall greater publication output, junior grantees had a significantly greater pre-post grant award increase in …
Introduzione
2012
Il contributo è l'introduzione al libro Città, Intonaci, Colore, di cui sono curatore. I temi trattati nel volume vogliono indagare le relazioni fra luogo, identità e cultura nel quadro dell'attuale processo di globalizzazione; l'introduzione demarca i limiti spaziali e temporali della ricerca. The contribution is the introduction to the book Città, Intonaci, Colore, of which I am the editor. The topics covered in the book want to investigate the relationships between place, identity and culture in the context of the current process of globalization; the introduction demarcates the spatial and temporal boundaries of this research.
Quranic app practices among multilingual Muslim youth in Denmark
2019
This article sheds light on a set of religious literacy practices which have so far received very little scientific attention, namely ‘quranic app practices’. Quranic app practices are conceptualized as ways of engaging with the Quran through religious apps on smartphones or tablets. The article is based primarily on an explorative group interview with four young people from a Year 8 class in a multilingual lower secondary school in Denmark. The youth have Somali and Afghan background, consider themselves practicing Muslims and can be described as ‘religious heritage learners of Arabic’ (Temples 2013). The article explores the quranic app practices of the young people as reported in the int…
Computing with Rational Symmetric Functions and Applications to Invariant Theory and PI-algebras
2012
The research of the first named author was partially supported by INdAM. The research of the second, third, and fourth named authors was partially supported by Grant for Bilateral Scientific Cooperation between Bulgaria and Ukraine. The research of the fifth named author was partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-1016086.
On an Inequality for Trigonometric Polynomials In Several Variables
1990
Publisher Summary This chapter presents trigonometric polynomials in n variables. Using the methods of approximation theory, an inequality can be extended to almost periodic functions and to still more general classes of functions as in the case for Bohr's inequality. However, no analogous result exists in the case of two variables. For the solution of problems containing small divisors, the estimate has to be completed by theorems concerning the best approximation of holomorphic functions by trigonometric polynomials in polystrips. The chapter also presents equations to provide an estimate for a differential operator.
Contextos educativos : revista de educación
2020
El tema central del artículo es la exposición de los argumentos en favor del derecho a la identidad cultural y la discusión sobre sus límites. Pretende mostrar la problemática que envuelve la reclamación de la identidad diferenciada en la enseñanza y explorar las consecuencias que su aplicación irrestricta puede tener para las políticas educativas integradoras de la libertad y la igualdad. Siguiendo una metodología exploratoria, explicativa y descriptiva, el texto empieza exponiendo la actualidad de la identidad cultural y su alcance; realiza a continuación una relectura de los conceptos que le afectan, particularmente los de educación, cultura e identidad cultural; aborda después el derech…
Some Numerical Invariants of Multilinear Identities
2017
We consider non-necessarily associative algebras over a field of characteristic zero and their polynomial identities. Here we describe most of the results obtained in recent years on two numerical sequences that can be attached to the multilinear identities satisfied by an algebra: the sequence of codimensions and the sequence of colengths.
Transnational return and social change: hierarchies, identities and ideas
2020
The volume’s eight chapters are organized in three thematic sections: (I) Changing Social Hierarchies; (II) Reshaping Collective Identities; and (III) Questioning Ideas, Local Knowledge and Norms. ...