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In the edited volume Writing for Professional Development, Giulia Ortoleva, Mireille Betrancourt and Stephen Billett explore the relationship between writing and professional development. Two main perspectives are considered: learning to write professionally, and writing to learn the profession.
In their edited volume Writing for Professional Development, Giulia Ortoleva, Mireille Bétrancourt and Stephen Billett provide a range of contributions in which empirical research, instructional models and educational practice are used to explore and illuminate how the task and process of writing can be used as tools for professional development. Throughout the volume, two main perspectives are considered: learning to write professionally and writing to learn the profession, both for initial occupational preparation and ongoing development within them. The contributions consider a range of fields of professional practice, across sectors of education, starting from the premises that the role...
The interdisciplinary field of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) explores ways of making learning more engaging, stimulating, and effective by promoting collaboration among learners through the use of computer networking, simulations, and computational support. This volume reproduces the editorial introductions to the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (ijCSCL) since its beginning in 2006. The introductions situate the articles in each quarterly issue within current CSCL research activity and highlight the unique perspectives and important contributions of the included papers. The introductions also present reflections on topics of CSCL theory and methodology, providing concise contributions of their own. Written in different styles, the introductions as an ensemble provide a lively, stimulating introduction to the CSCL research field as it has grown over the years.
In Supernatural Entertainments, Simone Natale vividly depicts spiritualism’s rise as a religious and cultural phenomenon and explores its strong connection to the growth of the media entertainment industry in the nineteenth century. He frames the spiritualist movement as part of a new commodity culture that changed how public entertainments were produced and consumed. Starting with the story of the Fox sisters, considered the first spiritualist mediums in history, Natale follows the trajectory of spiritualism in Great Britain and the United States from its foundation in 1848 to the beginning of the twentieth century. He demonstrates that spiritualist mediums and leaders adopted many of the...
¿Queda un espacio para el mito en nuestro tiempo? La sabiduría popular más extendida parece decirnos que nos libramos de él, o que lo perdimos, y esto gracias al saber científico y al triunfo de un mundo dominado por la técnica. Sin embargo, los mitos nos empujan, sirven para todo, lo explican todo. Peppino Ortoleva, historiador e investigador de la comunicación, emprende en Mitos de baja intensidad una expedición antropológica por nuestro mundo para descubrir cómo funcionan los mitos en sociedades que piensan que ya no creen en ellos. El autor traza un mapa de las historias que buscan dar un camino narrativo a lo invisible y una respuesta a enigmas eternamente irresolutos: las fig...
Tutti sappiamo – o pensiamo di sapere – che cos'è la canzone italiana. Ne parliamo con gli amici guardando Sanremo, la ascoltiamo su Spotify o su vinile, la cantiamo sotto la doccia, la amiamo, la odiamo, o tutt'e due le cose insieme. Ma che cosa rende «italiana» una canzone? «Felicità», siamo tutti d'accordo, suona come una tipica «canzone italiana», al punto che potremmo definirla «all'italiana». E allora «Via con me» di Paolo Conte, coeva eppure lontana miglia e miglia dal successo sanremese di Al Bano e Romina, non lo è? O forse lo è meno, con quello swing americano e quella voce roca? Jacopo Tomatis parte da qui, dal ripensamento delle idee più diffuse sulla canzone i...
Die Bedeutung sprachlich-kommunikativer Kompetenzen und entsprechende Anforderungen nehmen in allen Berufen stetig zu. Dies begründet auch vor dem Hintergrund des oft geforderten lebenslangen Lernens einen steigenden Bedarf an sprachlicher Aus- und Weiterbildung im Beruf. Dieses Handbuch gibt einen breiten Überblick über die Interessen, Perspektiven und Ansätze verschiedenster Disziplinen und Institutionen, die das Themenfeld der berufsbezogenen sprachlich-kommunikativen Aus- und Weiterbildung in den Blick nehmen. Dabei stehen methodische Fragen der Forschung und Erhebung ebenso im Fokus wie didaktische Fragen der Diagnose und Förderung sprachlicher und kommunikativer Anforderungen und Kompetenzen. Das Handbuch enthält zahlreiche Überblicksartikel zu den einzelnen Forschungsdisziplinen, die sich mit dem Thema auseinandersetzen, sowie zu den Forschungsmethoden und didaktisch-methodischen Ansätzen. Von besonderer Bedeutung ist das Kapitel C mit differenzierten Beiträgen zu den einzelnen sprachlichen Dimensionen, ihrer Diagnose und Förderung sowie zu ausgewählten Text- und Diskursarten, die in der beruflichen Aus- und Weiterbildung zentral sind.
In onda negli Stati Uniti e sulle reti di oltre cento paesi nel mondo dal 2010, The Walking Dead si è imposto, negli anni, come uno dei casi televisivi di maggiore successo a livello globale, generando, allo stesso tempo, un vasto e variegato fenomeno di fandom e di culto. Lo show, originariamente sviluppato dall’autore dell’omonima serie di fumetti Robert Kirkman e dal regista di popolari blockbuster hollywoodiani Frank Darabont, si inserisce pienamente nella corrente della contemporanea “serialità complessa”: sul piano della rappresentazione, mette in scena – sotto la coltre del genere horror e del “racconto di zombie” – alcune delle questioni più sentite nelle società ...