Desarrollo profesional de los bibliotecólogos en las organizaciones: transdisciplina y profesionalismo

The aim of this paper is to present a proposal for professional development supported by the theoretical foundations of information science, professional practice and organizational culture. The emphasis is on communication and transdisciplinarity to generate a positional change of the librarian in information management and professional group of the institution. Proposes professional development guidelines grouped into four core program areas: Professionalism, Research, Participation and visibility, permanent educatio

Desarrollo profesional de los bibliotecólogos en las organizaciones: transdisciplina y profesionalismo

El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar una propuesta de desarrollo profesional sustentada en los fundamentos teóricos de la Ciencia de la Información, la práctica profesional y la cultura organizacional. Se pone el énfasis en la comunicación y la transdisciplina para generar un cambio posicional del bibliotecólogo en la gestión de la información y el colectivo de profesionales de la institución. Se proponen lineamientos de desarrollo profesional agrupados en cuatro núcleos programáticos: Profesionalismo, Investigación, Participación y visibilidad, Educación permanente.The aim of this paper is to present a proposal for professional development supported by the theoretical foundations of information science, professional practice and culture of the organization. Emphasis is placed on communication and “transdisciplinarity” to generate a positional change of the librarian in information management and professional group of the institution. Guidelines are proposed professional development program included into four groups: Professionalism, Research, Participation and visibility, Lifelong Learning.Gerencia de Gestión de la InformaciónFil: Tripaldi, Nicolás Marí­a. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Dirección Nacional Asistente de Sistemas de Información, Comunicación y Calidad. Gerencia de Gestión de la Información; Departamento de Documentación; Argentin

Desarrollo profesional de los bibliotecólogos en las organizaciones: transdisciplina y profesionalismo

The aim of this paper is to present a proposal for professional development supported by the theoretical foundations of information science, professional practice and organizational culture. The emphasis is on communication and transdisciplinarity to generate a positional change of the librarian in information management and professional group of the institution. Proposes professional development guidelines grouped into four core program areas: Professionalism, Research, Participation and visibility, permanent educatio

Supporting authentic science in the classroom using collaborative Web-based software

This thesis presents aWeb-based Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) called the Education through Virtual Experience (EVE) Portal which supports e-Science learning for schoolchildren. The VLE guides students and teachers in the production of collaborative research papers to summarize their inquiry-based activities. This thesis details the formative evaluations carried out on the VLE and provides empirical evidence to support the hypothesis that the initial version of the VLE successfully supported inquiry-based science investigations. The VLE evaluations also provided an opportunity to assess the eectiveness of each of the VLE components toward our educational objectives. This thesis describes the shortfalls identied in the original version of the VLE, which has lead to the encapsulation of team management, collaborative writing and image-based data collection into the VLE. This thesis also details the initial trials of the collaborative components of the VLE and provides evidence to support the contention that collaboration has been successfully introduced into the VLE. Finally, this thesis provides a technical description of the underlying architecture of the EVE Portal and describes the implementation details of the EVE imaging component. This thesis makes contributions to e-Learning by providing empirical evidence that an amalgamation of software tools can support an inquiry-based scientic process with schoolchildren and teachers. The encapsulation of team allocation and team-based writing presents an innovative method for supporting inquiry-based learning within schools. The requirements elicitation and customized development of the EVE imaging component highlights many of the difficulties associated with the creation of Web-based software to support constructivist learning at pre-tertiary level. Finally, the EVE Portal provides an innovative way for teachers to capitalize on time spent carrying out inquiry activities through the codication of structure into a software supported process

CULTURAL HISTORICAL ACTIVITY THEORY: A FRAMEWORK FOR WRITING CENTER ANALYSES

From the recognized beginning of the laboratory movement in composition instruction, teachers have sought to employ new and more practical methods useful in developing student writing. Such trends continue today as new generations of students enter the academy and new challenges emerge. From such conditions, we might see how components within a system of activity work together to meet objectives and develop outcomes within the shared dialectic of an activity system. Individuals and groups increase the potential for contradiction identification, thus, opportunities for solutions increase through mediational activities. With this idea in mind, this dissertation reviews writing center-related scholarship from 1887 through today to trace emerging contradictions in laboratory teachings epochal movements. The end goal, then, is to define how resolutions to those contradictions have given rise to our modern conceptualization of the writing center. Using Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), this dissertation interprets the development of writing centers from their earliest beginnings. Through the evaluation of textual artifacts, I present the development of current writing center praxes in stages: a Formative Period; an Interim or Clinical Period; a Modern period; a Theoretical Period, and an emerging Activist Period. As a result, I look to provide modern writing center practitioners with a thorough history of writing center practices: what shaped them, through what contradictions they arose, what precipitated those contradictions, what resolved them, and what lies ahead. As communities like writing centers re-create themselvesthrough pushing and pulling, conflict and resolution, tension and releasethey birth new conceptualizations of realities. In the end, this dissertation uses CHAT to present a narrative about the development of writing center work that continues to unfold in new and dynamic ways. As a result, what may be most useful through this historical analysis is the way in which writing center practitioners may use CHAT to chart a way forward using the very framework used as the basis of this projects analysis. Today, writing centers may offer new ways to address a pedagogical order designed to challenge racism, homophobia, and other injustices through ongoing reading groups, curricular revision, and other faculty development efforts. Through learning our history, I believe we may more adequately position ourselves to shape our futures

Beckett and media

Featuring twelve original essays by leading Beckett scholars and media theorists, this book provides the first sustained examination of the relationship between Beckett and media technologies. The chapters analyse the rich variety of technical objects, semiotic arrangements, communication processes and forms of data processing that Beckett’s work so uniquely engages with, as well as those that – in historically changing configurations – determine the continuing performance, the audience reception, and the scholarly study of this work. Greatly enlarging the scope of earlier discussions, the book draws on a variety of innovative theoretical approaches, such as media archaeology, in order to discuss Beckett’s intermedial oeuvre. As such it engages with Beckett as a media artist and examine the way his engagement with media technologies continues to speak to our cultural situation

GVSU Press Releases, 2007

A compilation of press releases for the year 2007 submitted by University Communications (formerly News & Information Services) to news agencies concerning the people, places, and events related to Grand Valley State University