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The Information Society and the New Competence
1988
Something Mightier: Marginalization, Occult Imaginations and the Youth Conflict in the Oil-Rich Niger Delta
2011
This contribution examines the role of occult imaginations in the struggle against perceived socio-economic marginalization by youth militias from the Ijaw ethnic group in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria. It argues that the asymmetric power between the federal government/transnational oil corporations (TNOCs) and the militias may have privileged the invocation of the supernatural as a critical agency of strength and courage by the youth militias. The conflict in the region embodies a cultural revision which has been necessitated by both the uncertainty of the oil environment and the prevailing narratives of social injustice. Hence the Egbesu deity, seen historically as embodying…
Care and gendered work in reception centers in Finland
2019
PurposeThis paper focuses on how gendered processes of working life are (re)constructed and are also challenged discursively in paid and volunteer care and work in reception centers. The purpose of this paper is to show how caring work with asylum seekers can both enhance the traditional gender order and challenge it through enabling men to have opportunities to care.Design/methodology/approachThe data were produced through qualitative interviews among paid workers and volunteers in reception centers, and analyzed through a discourse analysis approach.FindingsThree discourses of care and work were identified: a discourse on solidarity and care; a discourse on control and order; and a discou…
Self-control and need satisfaction in primetime: Television, social media, and friends can enhance regulatory resources via perceived autonomy and co…
2021
The relationship between self-control and media use is complicated. Loss of self-control capacity has been linked to generally higher levels of media use, which might represent self-regulatory failure, but could also be attempts at replenishing self-control. Indeed, self-determination theory proposes that satisfying intrinsic psychological needs (autonomy, competence, and relatedness), for example via media use, aids the recovery of self-control. In this 2-wave survey (N = 395), we examined the interplay of users’ self-control capacity and their perceived satisfaction of autonomy, competence, and relatedness needs via media use and alternative leisure activities. Satisfaction of intrinsic n…
El patrimonio y paisaje del agua de l’Horta Sud como recursos para una propuesta didáctica
2021
La Huerta de Valencia, paisaje cultural milenario, con valores ambientales, históricos, económicos, culturales y simbólicos, se presenta como un magnífico escenario sobre el que desplegar una propuesta didáctica. Una propuesta que apueste por el aprovechamiento del patrimonio cultural y paisajístico como recurso educativo. Existe toda una línea de investigación en torno al potencial educativo del patrimonio cultural y del paisaje. Tras su revisión, y tras cartografiar, inventariar y analizar los bienes patrimoniales del área de estudio, se plantea como objetivo el diseño de una propuesta didáctica articulada en torno a un itinerario por la Huerta, como estrategia de aprendizaje integral par…
Similarities and Differences in the Evaluative Methods
2016
The awareness in the last few years surrounding the use of natural resources and landscape transformations has led to the development of several tools designed to evaluate the effects of human actions on them. The environmental evaluation methods, born in the USA, have known different disciplinary evolutions according to the following factors: firstly, regarding the object to assess; secondly, pertaining to the national juridical framework; and thirdly, relating to the progress in this field. Today we can affirm that we have, more or less, as many assessment techniques as countries. In fact, other than the Environmental Assessment Impact and Strategic Environmental Assessment, common to dif…
Human resource development roles and competencies in five European countries
1998
This article compares HRD practitioners’ self-assessments based on their work roles, outputs and competencies from England, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany and Finland. The comparison is based on results produced by European surveys conducted between 1992–96, which adopted their model from an earlier study of HRD practitioners in the USA. In terms of work roles, the findings showed the culture-bound nature of HRD work and also, through the appearance of new work roles, its close relation to changes in working life. English and the Finnish HRD practitioners in particular, seemed to perceive themselves as agents of change while for the Germans, the role of trainer still seemed valid. In terms…
La representació de la diversitata social en els materials didàctics digitals
2018
Con la extensión del uso de Materiales Didácticos Digitales (MDD) en la Educación Primaria en España, es pertinente analizar cómo estos representan la diversidad funcional, sexual, cultural, étnico/cultural, etario o de género en nuestra sociedad. Ese es uno de los objetivos del proyecto La escuela de la sociedad digital: análisis y propuestas para la producción y uso de los contenidos digitales educativos, que se está desarrollando en España —concretamente en Galicia, Valencia e Islas Canarias—. La metodología de estudio ha sido mixta —cuantitativa y cualitativa—centrada en el análisis de una muestra de 56 MDD ubicados en plataformas on lineinstitucionales, comerciales y colaborativas proc…
Customer data collection infrastructure and Customer Experience Management:The SAQ Case Study
2017
Channel integration makes Customer Experience Management more complex and requires from retailers a regeneration of their value proposition. A longitudinal case study reveal a hierarchical sequence of operant resource triad: cultural mindsets, strategic directions for designing value propositions, and a dynamic system of capabilities for continually renewing customer experiences. The implementation of a customer data collection infrastructure, the adoption of an iterative and sequential innovation process, and the mobilization of cross-functional and multidisciplinary project teams, will help develop the firm’s dynamic system of capabilities.
Scaling Consultative Selling with Virtual Reality: Design and Evaluation of Digitally Enhanced Services
2018
Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality technologies allow creation of powerful customer experiences and illustrative demonstrations especially in use cases that benefit from spatial visualizations. Our study focuses on the natural resource management sector and digitalizing of consultative selling process. More specifically, we look at how to improve customer engagement with the use of virtual reality (VR) and thus digitally scale consultative selling. In this process, a VR application is used to demonstrate various management operations and their economic results. Design research methodology is applied to a pre-development phase and three application development iterations between 2016 and …