Saber cómo aprender: liderazgo, gestión del conocimiento y el reto de crear comunidades de aprendizaje

Este trabajo sostiene que el enfoque tradicional al cambio organizacional, el liderazgo, no es útil para ayudar a crear comunidades de aprendizaje, ya que alberga una teoría implausible de la mente y del aprendizaje. Proponemos que el marco más productivo es una perspectiva de la gestión del conocimiento actualizada, una vez se pone al día la teoría tradicional del conocimiento como una división entre lo «tácito» y lo «propositivo». La gestión del conocimiento tiene que adoptar las mejores explicaciones (neuro) científicas de la función cerebral, y de cómo adquieren el conocimiento los seres humanos: la cognición distribuida y la mente extendida. La mente extendida expande la cognición distribuida centrándose en el trabajo cognitivo realizado fuera del «cráneo y la piel», en nuestro entorno social y tecnológico. La mente, la fuente del aprendizaje humano, se entiende mejor, por lo tanto, como un sistema cognitivo distribuido que desafía los puntos de vista tradicionales de aprendizaje y de experiencia personal, y también señala otras formas más fructíferas para crear comunidades de aprendizaje sostenibles en la educación y otros lugares

Saber cómo aprender: liderazgo, gestión del conocimiento y el reto de crear comunidades de aprendizaje

Este trabajo sostiene que el enfoque tradicional al cambio organizacional, el liderazgo, no es útil para ayudar a crear comunidades de aprendizaje, ya que alberga una teoría implausible de la mente y del aprendizaje. Proponemos que el marco más productivo es una perspectiva de la gestión del conocimiento actualizada, una vez se pone al día la teoría tradicional del conocimiento como una división entre lo «tácito» y lo «propositivo». La gestión del conocimiento tiene que adoptar las mejores explicaciones (neuro) científicas de la función cerebral, y de cómo adquieren el conocimiento los seres humanos: la cognición distribuida y la mente extendida. La mente extendida expande la cognición distribuida centrándose en el trabajo cognitivo realizado fuera del «cráneo y la piel», en nuestro entorno social y tecnológico. La mente, la fuente del aprendizaje humano, se entiende mejor, por lo tanto, como un sistema cognitivo distribuido que desafía los puntos de vista tradicionales de aprendizaje y de experiencia personal, y también señala otras formas más fructíferas para crear comunidades de aprendizaje sostenibles en la educación y otros lugares

A select, annotated bibliography on sustainable cities

Book: v, 93 p., digital fileBack in 1989, the notion that cities might have a key role (or any role) in environmentally sound economic development was just beginning to be explored by urban theorists and environmentalists, and very few publications on the subject were available. Since that time, interest in "sustainable cities" and "green cities" has burgeoned; the fact that this bibliography contains some 400 items attests to the remarkable growth of interest in many different disciplines in the role of cities in sustainable development, and in how cities can be come more sustainable. And, as the "select" in the title suggests, although this bibliography is extensive, by no means does it encompass the entirety of the relevant literature, which continues to grow apace

Casco Bay Weekly : 14 March 1996

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Access Denied

A study of Internet blocking and filtering around the world: analyses by leading researchers and survey results that document filtering practices in dozens of countries.Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens—most often about politics, but sometimes relating to sexuality, culture, or religion. Access Denied documents and analyzes Internet filtering practices in more than three dozen countries, offering the first rigorously conducted study of an accelerating trend. Internet filtering takes place in more than three dozen states worldwide, including many countries in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. Related Internet content-control mechanisms are also in place in Canada, the United States and a cluster of countries in Europe. Drawing on a just-completed survey of global Internet filtering undertaken by the OpenNet Initiative (a collaboration of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University, and the University of Cambridge) and relying on work by regional experts and an extensive network of researchers, Access Denied examines the political, legal, social, and cultural contexts of Internet filtering in these states from a variety of perspectives. Chapters discuss the mechanisms and politics of Internet filtering, the strengths and limitations of the technology that powers it, the relevance of international law, ethical considerations for corporations that supply states with the tools for blocking and filtering, and the implications of Internet filtering for activist communities that increasingly rely on Internet technologies for communicating their missions. Reports on Internet content regulation in forty different countries follow, with each two-page country profile outlining the types of content blocked by category and documenting key findings.ContributorsRoss Anderson, Malcolm Birdling, Ronald Deibert, Robert Faris, Vesselina Haralampieva [as per Rob Faris], Steven Murdoch, Helmi Noman, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Mary Rundle, Nart Villeneuve, Stephanie Wang, Jonathan Zittrai

Terrorism affected regions : the impact of different supply chain risk management strategies on financial performance

Purpose: Current geo-political events, such as terrorism and climatologic adversities, have highlighted the potential risks to supply chains (SCs), and their disastrous financial impacts on supply chains. Within supply chains, risk management plays a major role in successfully managing business processes in a proactive manner and ensuring the business continuity and financial performance (FP). The purpose of this study is to explore the supply chain risks and strategies in a terrorism-affected region (TAR), and to examine supply chain risk management (SCRM) strategies and their impacts on FP, including the war on terror (WoT) and its impacts on the local logistics industry. In addition, this study investigates the knowledge gaps in the published research on terrorism-related risk in supply chains, and develops a framework of strategies and effective decision-making to enable practitioners to address terrorism-related risks for SCRM.Methodology: The study initially adopts a novel combination of triangulated methods comprising a systematic literature review, text mining, and network analysis. Additionally, risk identification, risk analysis and strategies scrutiny are conducted by using semi-structured interviews and Qualitative Content Analysis in a TAR. A model of strategies was developed from a review of existing studies and interviews. The model is empirically tested with survey data of 80 firms using fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA).Findings: This study reveals a number of key themes in the field of SCRM linked with terrorism. It identifies relevant mitigation strategies and practices for effective strategic decision-making. This subsequently leads to development of a strategic framework, consisting of strategies and effective-decision making practices to address terrorism-related risks that affect SCRM. It also identifies key the knowledge gaps in the literature and explores the main contributions by disciplines (e.g., business schools, engineering, and maritime institutions) and countries.Further, it identifies the SC risks in a TAR, which consist of value streams: disruption risks, operational risks and financial risks. Among these, the emerging risks emcompass terrorist groups’ demand for protection money, smog, paedophilia and the use of containers to block protesters. To mitigate these risks, firms frequently implemented the following strategies: information sharing, SC coordination, risk sharing, SC finance, SC security and facilitation payment. Five strategies out of the six (except facilitation payment) are able to lead to FP, confirmed quantitatively as well. There are various equifinal configurations of SCRM strategies leading to FP. In addition, information sharing acts as a moderator in the relationship between SC security and FP. SC coordination has a mediating role in the relationship between information sharing and SC security capabilities and FP.Research limitations/Contribution: The sample size a limitation of the study, meaning that the findings should be generalized with caution. The most valuable implications is the identification of configurations of strategies that can help managers and policymakers in implementing those findings.Originality/value: No empirical study was found in the SCRM literature that specifically investigates the relationships between the identified strategies and FP with fsQCA, in particular in a TAR context; this study thus fills an important gap in the SCRM literature and contributes empirically

Casco Bay Weekly : 29 January 1998

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Mike Roland, currently in his second term on the Portland School Committee, will

Mike Roland, currently in his second term on the Portland School Committee, will not seek re-election to his post. Nathan Smith, Bruce Richardson and Cyrus Hagge are running for the Portland City Council. Attorney James Cloutier and real estate broker Nan Sawyer may also run for the city council