Challenging Knowledge
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Author |
: Julie E. Mills |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2013-07-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135011604 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135011605 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power by : Julie E. Mills
Women in the developed world expect to work in the labour force over the course of their lives. On finishing school more girls are entering universities and undertaking professional training for careers than ever before. Males and females enter many high status professions in roughly equal numbers. However, engineering stands out as a profession that remains obstinately male dominated. Despite efforts to change, little progress has been made in attracting and retaining women in engineering. This book analyses the outcomes of a decade-long investigation into this phenomenon, framed by two questions: Why are there so few women in engineering? And why is this so difficult to change? The study includes data from two major surveys, accounts from female engineers in a range of locations and engineering fields, and case studies of three large engineering corporations. The authors explore the history and politics of several organisations related to women in engineering, and conclude with an analysis of a range of campaigns that have been waged to address the issue of women’s minority status in engineering. Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power will be of great interest to students of feminist economics, and is also relevant to researchers in women’s studies and engineering education.
Author |
: Stephen H. Kellert |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2009-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226429809 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226429806 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Borrowed Knowledge by : Stephen H. Kellert
What happens to scientific knowledge when researchers outside the natural sciences bring elements of the latest trend across disciplinary boundaries for their own purposes? Researchers in fields from anthropology to family therapy and traffic planning employ the concepts, methods, and results of chaos theory to harness the disciplinary prestige of the natural sciences, to motivate methodological change or conceptual reorganization within their home discipline, and to justify public policies and aesthetic judgments. Using the recent explosion in the use (and abuse) of chaos theory, Borrowed Knowledge and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines examines the relationship between science and other disciplines as well as the place of scientific knowledge within our broader culture. Stephen H. Kellert’s detailed investigation of the myriad uses of chaos theory reveals serious problems that can arise in the interchange between science and other knowledge-making pursuits, as well as opportunities for constructive interchange. By engaging with recent debates about interdisciplinary research, Kellert contributes a theoretical vocabulary and a set of critical frameworks for the rigorous examination of borrowing.
Author |
: E. Lehrer |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 247 |
Release |
: 2011-10-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230319554 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230319556 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Curating Difficult Knowledge by : E. Lehrer
This volume inscribes an innovative domain of inquiry, bringing museum and heritage studies to bear on questions of transitional justice, memory and post-conflict reconciliation. As practitioners, artists, curators, activists and academics, the contributors explore the challenges of bearing witness to past conflicts.
Author |
: Margaret Tali |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2017-12-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351626347 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351626345 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Absence and Difficult Knowledge in Contemporary Art Museums by : Margaret Tali
This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums from 1989 to the present, arguing that museums actualize absence both consciously and unconsciously, while misrepresentation is an outcome of the absent perspectives and voices of minority community members which are rarely considered in relation to contemporary art. Difficult knowledge is proposed as a way of dealing with absence productively. Drawing on social art history, museology, postcolonial theory, and memory studies, Margaret Tali analyzes the collections of four modern and contemporary art museums across Europe: the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest, the Kiasma Museum in Helsinki, and the Kumu Museum in Tallinn.
Author |
: David Guile |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 211 |
Release |
: 2010-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789460912597 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9460912591 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Learning Challenge of the Knowledge Economy by : David Guile
This book introduces a new perspective on the knowledge economy and the learning challenge it presents for individuals, communities and societies.
Author |
: Thomas S. Popkewitz |
Publisher |
: Teachers College Press |
Total Pages |
: 642 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807776469 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807776467 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Foucault's Challenge by : Thomas S. Popkewitz
The intellectual work of Michel Foucault has been an increasingly central component of social science in recent years. This is the first book to directly address the implication of Foucault's work for the field of education. This text, originally published in 1997, not only provides a critical examination of the significance of Foucauldian thought for education, but also discusses how Foucault’s theories are arrayed in the everyday life of schools.
Author |
: Jonathan Evison |
Publisher |
: Algonquin Books |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2019-03-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781616209230 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1616209232 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lawn Boy by : Jonathan Evison
Recipient of the 2019 Alex Award “Mike Muñoz Is a Holden Caulfield for a New Millennium--a '10th-generation peasant with a Mexican last name, raised by a single mom on an Indian reservation' . . . Evison, as in his previous four novels, has a light touch and humorously guides the reader, this time through the minefield that is working-class America.” --The New York Times Book Review For Mike Muñoz, life has been a whole lot of waiting for something to happen. Not too many years out of high school and still doing menial work--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew--he’s smart enough to know that he’s got to be the one to shake things up if he’s ever going to change his life. But how? He’s not qualified for much of anything. He has no particular talents, although he is stellar at handling a lawn mower and wielding clipping shears. But now that career seems to be behind him. So what’s next for Mike Muñoz? In this funny, biting, touching, and ultimately inspiring novel, bestselling author Jonathan Evison takes the reader into the heart and mind of a young man determined to achieve the American dream of happiness and prosperity--who just so happens to find himself along the way.
Author |
: The Times Mind Games |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages |
: 868 |
Release |
: 2016-12-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780008209551 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0008209553 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Times Quiz Book: 4000 challenging general knowledge questions by : The Times Mind Games
4000 questions in more than 200 challenging quizzes from the MindGames section of The Times to really test your general knowledge. Set the pace as quiz master for your friends, colleagues and family, or pit yourself against 4-times world-champion Olav in a battle of wits. Includes a picture question in each round.
Author |
: Klaus North |
Publisher |
: Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 2011-10-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781780521442 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1780521448 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Effective Knowledge Work by : Klaus North
Addresses the following questions: What is knowledge work? What are strategies and methods for increasing productivity, quality, effectiveness and value of knowledge work? Can knowledge workers be managed, and if yes, how? What are adequate methods for measuring performance of knowledge workers?
Author |
: Onofrio Romano |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 2014-06-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317962502 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317962508 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Sociology of Knowledge in a Time of Crisis by : Onofrio Romano
The speed of social dynamics has overtaken the speed of thought. Adopting a dialectical perspective towards reality, social theory has always detected faults in the dominant social pattern, foreseeing crises and outlining in advance the features of new social models. Thought has always moved faster than reality and its ruling models, ensuring a dynamic equilibrium during modernity. Despite any dramatic social crisis, theory has always provided exit routes. The tragedy of current crisis lies in the fact that its social implications are exasperated by the absence of alternative views. This book identifies the causes of this mismatch between thought and reality, and illustrates a way out.