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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Knowledge society"”.
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General Knowledge? The Roles of the New Zealand University in a Knowledge Society
… the roles of the New Zealand university in a knowledge society. Gaps in the literature of the New Zealand university in a contemporary context mean that the enquiry is informed by European and North American discussions of the educational requirements of a knowledge society. As the notions of …
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Re-imagining sustainable agro-food futures : alternative bio-economies in a knowledge society era
… agro-food networks’ (AAFNs) and the vision of a knowledge-based (bio)economy (KB(B)E). Despite the rich theoretical investigations that indicate both developments’ great potential impact on the current and future socio-political and economic order, there has been little attempt towards an …
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The University in the Knowledge Society: A Neo-Institutionalist Approach to the ‘Idea’ of the University
… the emerging 21st Century post-industrial, Knowledge Society (KS). Inquiries of this nature are often referred to as the ‘idea’ of the university and whilst a growing academic literature questions what an ‘idea’ for the institution may look like in light of the arguably unique context of the …
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Information and knowledge society and its impact on poverty alleviation and economic empowerment among informal sector women entrepreneurs in South Africa
… sparked the evolution into the information and knowledge society of the 21st century. The basis of the information and knowledge society revolves around technology’s increased assimilation and diffusion in human society, particularly information and communication technologies and their rapid …
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Skills training and development: Russia in comparative perspective
… contributing to the growing critique of the knowledge society theory. For those few workers who occupy ‘good’ jobs, skills training is strongly linked to personal-specific traits, such as qualifications and computer and language skills; and this is common in both Russia and India. However, in …
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THE LIMITS OF THE NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS MODEL: THE CASE OF TURKEY
… the social dimensions of the transition to new knowledge society without being trapped into technological determinism of the Neo-Schumpeterian approach.
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Kultūros vieta žinių visuomenėje /
… is the place of Culture in a context of Knowledge society. The main aim is to introduce possibilities of digital code and to check out if Lithuanian society is already ready for to accept e-culture as one more alternative in their lives. It is very important to stress the meaning of the …
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Discourse, dogma, and domination : knowledge work as art and politics
… meaning, but many. The topic of the thesis is knowledge work. The assumption that there is a clear and abiding descriptor of knowledge work supports an erroneous perception that there is consensus in interpretation and that its meanings are fixed and uncontested. Rather, the concept of …
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Exploring Knowledge Processes for Technology Assimilation
<p>In the emerging knowledge society, the ability to make the experience and expertise of those involved in and affected by new technology unconditionally available to all members of an organization is becoming increasingly important. One of the problems in developing such knowledge processes for …
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Splitting hairs : a sociological approach to educational knowledge
… question as to whether, in the informational or knowledge society of late modernity, all symbolic forms are necessarily isomorphic, or whether they will correspond with the new form of the division of labour and will therefore differ in form and social distribution. The symbolic forms examined …
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THE MATERIALITY OF KNOWLEDGE: THE COLONIAL ROOTS OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
… of the relationship between capital and knowledge (usually analysed in terms of “knowledge society”, “knowledge economy”, and so on), in light of and in continuity with the history and structures of colonial capitalism. For this purpose, in the first place, the main neoliberal and …
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Games Leaders Play: Collaborative Leadership Development through Simulations in Knowledge-Based Organizations
… these concepts to individuals are needed in the knowledge society of today. This study presented a practitioners model of collaborative leadership and a new experiential simulation methodology called LeadSimrn as a way in which organization members could learn this new model of leadership and …
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Formazione, apprendimento e nuove prospettive e-learning. Lo sviluppo delle nuove tecnologie didattiche e la creazione di sistemi di apprendimento lungo l’intero arco della vita
… transformations that are shaping post-industrial society. It analyzes some key issues such as: how work is changing, the evolution of organizational set-ups and the introduction of learning organization, the advent of the knowledge society and of knowledge companies, the innovation of training …
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Japanese approaches to organizational internationalization of Universities:a case study of three national university corporations.
… have been re-examined due to an emerging global knowledge society and a decrease in the domestic traditional student population. Thus, internationalization has been recognized as a concern in the current aim of university reform. This study explores how and why three exemplary national university …
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Learning style, modal preference & the spacing effect in an online project management training programme.
… of skills and qualifications is imperative in a knowledge society (David & Foray 2003, OECD 2007) and central to Continued Professional Development (CPD) programmes in most organisations. However identifying and using effective (maximise retention / recall) and efficient (minimise time to learn) …
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Open access research publications and South African institutional repositories (IRS) in the context of Private Law and practices : an interdisciplinary study
… role these play in the broader development of a knowledge society is explored. Through a systemic approach the different role-players, legislation, regulations, regulatory bodies, institutional policies and copyright agreements with (largely international) academic publishers are taken into …
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Social networking software in higher education : investigating the influence of using different interaction levels on learners’ achievement and satisfaction
Education in knowledge society is challenged with a lot of problems in particular the interaction between the teacher and learner in social networking software as a key factor affects the learners’ learning and satisfaction (Prammanee, 2005) where “to teach is to communicate, to communicate is to …
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The information needs of contemporary academic researchers
… organisation, values and practices of scholarly knowledge production of recent years, coupled with the technology-enabled, rapidly evolving opportunities for creating, accessing and communicating information suggest that neither researchers' information needs, nor their attempts at meeting these …
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The Academic Library in Society’s Knowledge System : a Case Study of Tshwane University of Technology
… in terms of the organization and storage of knowledge, as well as its distribution and access. This makes them important role players in South Africa’s broader library and information services ecosystem. As a result, academic libraries do not operate in a vacuum. As part of the broader …
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The impact of national culture on knowledge management processes in the context of an economic transition to a knowledge-based economy: the case of Qatar.
In recent years, a global movement towards a knowledge-based economy through the provision of adequate and appropriate infrastructure and development programs for leveraging the potential of human capital has started. There has been tremendous cognitive development in the developed countries …
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