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Information experiences in the workplace: Foundations for an Informed Systems Approach
Mary M. Somerville and Anita Mirijamdotter
Informed learning can be enlivened through explicit and persistent attention to using information to learn during collaborative design activities. The resulting information experiences and accompanying information practices in the workplace, when combined with systems principles, can produce transferable individual and group (and, ultimately, organizational) capacity to advance knowledge in ever expanding professional contexts.
In development in North America since 2003, the Informed Systems Approach incorporates principles of systems thinking and informed learning though an inclusive, participatory design process that fosters information exchange, reflective dialogue, knowledge creation, and conceptual change in workplace organizations. It also furthers expression of collaborative information practices that enrich information experiences by simultaneously advancing both situated domain knowledge and transferable learning capacity. Integrated design activities support participants’ developing awareness of the conceptions of information experience and informed learning, in a cyclical and iterative fashion that promotes and sustains continuous learning.
A shared learning focus evolves through intentional use of information to learn, including collective reflection on information sources, collaborative practices, and systems functionalities, which further participants’ topical understandings and enrich their information experiences. In addition, an action-oriented intention and inclusive participatory disposition ensures improvements of real world situations.
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The International Law of Property
John G. Sprankling
This is the first book to explore the subject of international property law. While traditionally viewed as a national concern, identifiable areas of property law have emerged at the international level; the foundation is now being laid for a comprehensive regime. The evolution of international property law was influenced by major economic, political, and technological changes, including the embrace of private property by former socialist states after the Cold War; globalization of investments and trade; the birth of new technologies for exploiting the global commons; and increasing recognition of the human right to property. The first section of the book analyzes how international law impacts rights in specific types of property. It creates property rights in certain situations, such as rights in aboriginal lands and satellite orbits. In other areas, it harmonizes property rights that arise at the national level, such as rights in intellectual property and security interests in personal property. Finally, it sometimes restricts or prohibits the property rights that may be recognized at the national level, such as rights in celestial bodies, contraband, and humans. The second section of the book develops the thesis that a global right to property should be recognized as a general matter as to all types of property, not merely as a moral precept but rather as an entitlement that all states must honor. It examines five components of the global right: the rights to (a) acquire; (b) use; (c) destroy; (d) exclude; and (e) transfer.
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Grow Food, Cook Food, Share Food: perspectives on eating from the past and a preliminary agenda for the future
Ken Albala
Grow Food, Cook Food, Share Food is a practical food history lesson, an editorial about everything gone wrong with modern food, and a call to arms of the kitchen knife variety. Historian Ken Albala relates his experiences of growing, cooking, and sharing food in ways that people did in the past, ways that we have needlessly lost. He finds lessons in surprising places, including obscure seventeenth century Italian farmer/nobles, ancient statesmen, and quirky cheesemakers from centuries ago. A rare but important variety of historical activism, Grow Food, Cook Food, Share Food uses history to enrich people's lives through a greater awareness and appreciation of what they put in their bodies.
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パンケーキの歴史物語 (Pankeki no rekishi monogatari)
Ken Albala and Mitsuhuro Sekine
Round, thin, and made of starchy batter cooked on a flat surface, it is a food that goes by many names: flapjack, crêpe, and okonomiyaki, to name just a few. The pancake is a treasured food the world over, and now Ken Albala unearths the surprisingly rich history of pancakes and their sizzling goodness.
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A Reflection on Transitional Justice in Guatemala 15 Years After the-Peace Agreements
Raquel Aldana
Chapter 18 of Victims of International Crimes: An Interdisciplinary Discourse 297 (Thorsten Bonacker & Christoph Safferling, eds., Springer 2013).
This chapter is a reflection of what the wartime prosecutions in Guatemala have achieved in the past fifteen years since the signing of the peace agreements. Through their participation in emblematic wartime cases in Guatemala, victims have infused the justice system with accountability to make it harder for individual prosecutors or judges to dismiss the cases; they have brought resources that have resulted in better investigations, better trials and better evidence and even more protection for the brave prosecutors and judges and they have creatively pushed the boundaries of law to advance criminal law and procedural doctrines in accordance with international legal developments. However, these heroic efforts in important individual cases have yielded few lasting reforms in the judicial system of Guatemala. It is time for Guatemala to acknowledge that it has asked too much the victims and to consider alternative models for addressing the persistent and endemic problems of transitional justice in the country.
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Degree for Free: How to Save Time and Money on Your College Education
Sharla Berry
"Degree for Free" is a how to guide that teaches readers how to cut college costs and accelerate time to degree. In this book readers will learn how to avoid debt, get double credit for college courses and how to use high school experiences can have great payoffs in college. Readers will learn how to get college jobs that pay for 1/3 of tuition, how to save money on textbooks, and how to pick college majors with large payoffs. This book will show readers how to get into their dream schools, graduate on time if not early, and prepare for their ideal jobs.
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Diversifying information literacy research: An informed learning perspective
Christine S. Bruce, Mary M. Somerville, Ian D. Stoodley, and Helen L. Partridge
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Common Core State Standards for High School Math: Algebra. What Every Math Teacher Should Know
Christopher D. Goff
This book explains the Algebra Common Core State Standards line by line. It is the second in a series intended to help high school math teachers better understand the Common Core State Standards.
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An exercise in tempered radicalism: Seeking the intersectionality of gender, race, and sexual identity in educational leadership research
Karen M. Jackson, Chia-Chee Chiu, Rosita Lopez, Juanita M. Cleaver Simmons, Linda E. Skrla, and Linda Sue Warner
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Governing Foolishness: A Comparative Analysis of Executive Compensation Rules
Michael P. Malloy
Michael P. Malloy, Governing Foolishness: A Comparative Analysis of Executive Compensation Rules, in Economy and Commercial Law - Selected Issues 31 (David A. Frenkel, ed., Athens Inst. for Educ. & Res. 2013).
This paper explores three approaches to limits on executive compensation as responses to the current financial crisis. Each approach has been established or endorsed by a different policy making institution. The first approach is the executive compensation provision of the Dodd-Frank Act, which was enacted as the U.S. Government’s principal response to the financial crisis. The second approach is the European Commission’s Green Paper on executive compensation, issued just weeks before enactment of the DFA and with much the same intention. The third approach is a set of non-binding guidelines issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision based at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland. Only the third approach is specifically intended for use in the supervision of financial services firms; the other two impose or recommend requirements on executive compensation. Despite a flurry of public attention over a few causes célèbres, in which corporate executives had their compensation threatened or actually curtailed, current empirical data on executive compensation strongly suggest that these limitations on executive compensation are of negligible effect. The paper argues that these limits are a distraction from the real issues in the financial services markets, like, for example, fraud, manipulation, gross negligence during the run-up to the crisis.
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The myths of aging and decline: Career development and employability of older workers
Tonette S. Rocco, Jo G. L. Thijssen, and Rod P. Githens
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What the best law teachers do
Michael Hunter Schwartz, Gerald F. Hess, and Sophie M. Sparrow
What the Best Law Teachers Do introduces readers to twenty-six professors from law schools across the United States. These instructors are renowned for their exacting standards: they set expectations high, while also making course requirements—and their belief that their students can meet them—clear from the outset. They demonstrate professional behavior and tell students to approach class as they would their future professional life: by being as prepared, polished, and gracious as possible. And they prepare themselves for class in depth, even when they have taught the course for years.
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