905 resultados para 920 Biography
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This paper provides an account of the way Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems change over time. These changes are conceptualized as a biographical accumulation that gives the specific ERP technology its present character, attributes and historicity. The paper presents empirics from the implementation of an ERP package within an Australasian organization. Changes to the ERP take place as a result of imperatives which arise during the implementation. Our research and evidence then extends to a different time and place where the new release of the ERP software was being 'sold' to client firms in the UK. We theorize our research through a lens based on ideas from actor network theory (ANT) and the concept of biography. The paper seeks to contribute an additional theorization for ANT studies that places the focus on the technological object and frees it from the ties of the implementation setting. The research illustrates the opportunistic and contested fabrication of a technological object and emphasizes the stability as well as the fluidity of its technologic. Copyright 2007 SAGE.
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Peer reviewed
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Mmoire numris par la Direction des bibliothques de l'Universit de Montral.
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Mmoire numris par la Direction des bibliothques de l'Universit de Montral.
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This paper describes research carried out as part of a wider doctoral study on the biography of music teachers, their understanding of musicality and the implications for secondary music education. Music teachers will come from a range of diverse backgrounds, though research data would suggest that most seem to have been educated as classical music performers which will have an affect on what they perceive to be central competencies in the development of young musicians. In turn, this will determine, to some extent, what is taught and learned in the secondary music classroom. This study explores the impact of the biography of secondary music teachers as they seek to develop the musicianship of their pupils and present the activities in which the young people will be expected to participate. A mixed methods approach has been taken, including surveys, observation and interviews. Surveys amongst a sample of experienced and trainee teachers have produced a range of quantitative data on respondents experience of and values related to music education; whilst qualitative data in the form of lesson observation notes and transcription of semi-structured interviews have been the result of working with a small sub-set of participants. The outcomes of study have suggested a clear link between biography and classroom practice but that there are also other potential tensions which arise, such as in the subject knowledge development of practitioners as they move from musician to teacher. Implications for a variety of stakeholders in secondary music education include a consideration of the development of subject knowledge together with potential review of national and local education policy, the nature of undergraduate music study and the shape of initial teacher training in England.
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A journal of commercial voyages and domestic life on the Tigris River -- biography of the author.
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Title within ornamental border in gold and colors.
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Mode of access: Internet.
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Squeeze + photograph
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The monograph is a systematic arrangement of the biographies and bibliographies of botanists in South Carolina who have contributed to the states reputation in botany.
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Nationalism is not a naturally occurring sentiment, but rather needs to be carefully nurtured and sustained in the social imaginary through the production and circulation of unifying narratives that invoke the nations imagined community. The school curriculum is crucial in this process, legitimating and disseminating selected narratives while de-legitimating and marginalising other accounts and their voices. Certain watershed events in nations histories have always posed political problems in history curricula (Cajani & Ross, 2007) however the pressures and concerns of current times now suggest political solutions in history curricula. This paper briefly examines recent political debates in Australia to argue that the school history curriculum has become a site of increasing interest for the exercise of official forms of nationalism and the production of a nostalgic, celebratory national biography. The public debates around school history curriculum are theorised as nostalgic re-nationalising efforts in response to the march of cultural globalisation and its attendant uncertainties.
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It's hard to be dispassionate about Reyner Banham. For me, and for the plethora of other people with strong opinions about Banham, his writing is compelling, and ones connection to him as a figure quite personal. For me, frankly, he rocks. As a landscape architect, I gleaned most of my knowledge about Modern architecture from Banham. His Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, along with Rowe and Koetters Collage City and Venturis Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture were the most influential books in my library, by far. Later, as a budding real scholar, I was disappointed to find that, while these authors had serious credibility, the writings themselves were regarded as polemical when in fact what I admired about them most was their ability and willingness to make rough groupings and gross generalizations, and to offer fickle opinions. It spoke to me of a real personal engagement and an active, participatory reading of the architectural culture they discussed. They were at their best in their witty, cutting, but generally pithy, creative prose, such as in Rowes extrapolation of the modern citizen as the latest noble savage, or Banham railing against conservative social advocates and their response to high density housing: those who had just re-discovered community in the slums would fear megastructure as much as any other kind of large-scale renewal program, and would see to it that the people were never ready. Any reader of Banham will be able to find a gem that will relate, somehow, personally, to what they are doing right now. For Banham, it was all personal, and the gaps in his scholarship, rather, were the dispassionate places: Such bias is essential an unbiased historian is a pointless historian because history is an essentially critical activity, a constant re-scrutiny and rearrangement of the profession. Reyner Banham: Historian of the Immediate Future, Nigel Whiteleys recent intellectual biography (the MIT Press, 2002), allowed me to revisit Banhams passionate mode of criticism and to consider what his legacy might be. The book examines Banhams body of work, grouped according to his various primary fascinations, as well as his relationship to contemporaneous theoretical movements, such as postmodernism. His mode of practice, as a kind of creative critic, is also considered in some depth. While there are points where the book delves into Banhams personal life, on the whole Whiteley is very rigorous in considering and theorizing the work itself: more than 750 articles and twelve books. In academic terms, this is good practice. However, considering the entirely personal nature of Banhams writing itself, this separation seems artificial. Banham, as he himself noted, didnt mind a gossip, and often when reading the book I was curious about what was happening to him at the time. Banhams was an amazing type of intellectual practice, and one that academics (a term he hated) could do well to learn from. While Whiteley spends a lot of time arguing for his practice to be regarded as such, and makes strong points about both the role of the critic, and the importance of journalism, rather than scholarly publishing, I found myself wondering what his study looked like. What books he had in his library. Did he smoke when he wrote? What sort of teaching load did he have? He is an inspiration to design writers and thinkers, and I, personally, wanted to know how he did it.
