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Making Sense of Work Through Collaborative Storytelling
Collaborative Storytelling is a theory of social and cultural change. The theory itself advocates for space and time to refect on social identities and embodied lived experiences through stories. In this chapter, we introduce how metaphors, narratives and stories powerfully impact organisational change in exclusive or inclusive ways.
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- 9783030894467
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- XIX, 119
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Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion
Seed diversity is crucial to the sustainability of food and agricultural systems. Yet as Michel Pimbert’s survey of the global ‘state of seeds’ reveals, both wild and domesticated varieties are disappearing under an onslaught of human-driven pressures. Planetary crises—the sixth great extinction and climate change—constitute one. Industrialized agriculture is another: just three …
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- 9783030894054
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- XIX, 199
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Organization Management – Dynamic Creative Team Coordination
Stavros Georgiades is Professor W2 of Management at the Stuttgart Media University (Visiting Post), Assistant Professor of Management at Frederick University, a research collaborator of the University of Digital Science Berlin and the founder of the Anagnorisis Institute of Media Management (AIMM). He holds a PhD in Management from the Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK. Hi…
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- 9783658375096
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- XI, 81
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Sexualisierte Gewalt und digitale Medien
Digitale Medien sind in unserem Alltag – das heißt auch dem von Kindern und Jugendlichen – so dauerhaft präsent, dass eine Unterscheidung zwischen digital und nicht digital oder aber on- und offline kaum noch haltbar ist. Spätestens seit der Verbreitung von Smartphones werden erhebliche Teile des Lebens offensichtlich oder im Hintergrund durch Algorithmen, Apps, Foto- und Videotechni…
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- 9783658357641
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- XIII, 213
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Learning Cultural Literacy through Creative Practices in Schools
The introductory chapter explains the core concepts of the book: Cultural literacy and creativity. Cultural literacy is defined as a social practice that is inherently dialogic and based on learning and gaining knowledge through emphatic, tolerant, and inclusive interaction. Creativity is seen as stimulating cultural literacy learning through openness and curiosity to test and develop some…
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- 9783030892364
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- XXI, 151
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Learning to Diagnose with Simulations
Making decisions require professionals in different fields to be able to identify, understand, and even predict situations and events relevant to their professions. This makes diagnosis an essential part of professional competences across domains. Diagnosis involves identifying the problem, analyzing the context, and application of obtained knowledge and experience to make practical decisio…
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- 9783030891473
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- VI, 157
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Wohlbefinden und Gesundheit im Jugendalter
Wohlbefnden und Gesundheit im Kindheits- und Jugendalter haben in den vergangenen Jahren in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung an Bedeutung gewonnen. Im Vordergrund steht dabei vor allem die Erforschung der Bedingungsfaktoren für die Entwicklung eines „guten“ Wohlbefndens und einer „guten“ Gesundheit bei Kindern und Jugendlichen. Die verschiedenen Fachdisziplinen beschäfti…
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- 9783658357443
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- XVIII, 729
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Multivariate Statistical Machine Learning Methods for Genomic Prediction
Thanks to advances in digital technologies like electronic devices and networks, it is possible to automatize and digitalize many jobs, processes, and services, which are generating huge quantities of data. These “big data” are transmitted, collected, aggregated, and analyzed to deliver deep insights into processes and human behavior. For this reason, data are called the new oil, since …
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- 9783030890100
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- XXIV, 691
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Joe Pawsey and the Founding of Australian Radio Astronomy
This open access book is a biography of Joseph L. Pawsey. It examines not only his life but the birth and growth of the field of radio astronomy and the state of science itself in twentieth century Australia. The book explains how an isolated continent with limited resources grew to be one of the leaders in the study of radio astronomy and the design of instruments to do so. Pawsey made a n…
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- 9783031079160
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Open Skies
This book recounts and analyzes the history of one of the best-kept diplomatic and security secrets of the last half-century—the Open Skies Treaty: a treaty that allows the U.S., the Russian Federation, and over 30 other signatories to fly unarmed reconnaissance aircraft over one another's territory. First proposed by President Eisenhower in 1955, shelved by succeeding administrations, re-lau…
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