In this work, Burton R. Clark uses case studies from 14 innovative institutions to propose a new conceptual framework offering original insights into ways of initiating and sustaining change in universities.
En este libro de texto se afronta el aprendizaje del emprendimiento como actitud. Se trata de movilizar en los alumnos que cursan la Formación Profesional Básica todo un conjunto de competencias, actitudes y conocimientos que son propios del mismo hecho de emprender, pero que además son comunes y habituales en la vida personal y profesional de los individuos: la responsabilidad, la iniciativa, el trabajo en equipo, la comunicación, etcétera. La incorporación por parte de algunas Administraciones educativas de este módulo en los ciclos de Formación Profesional Básica es consecuencia de la Ley 14/2013, de 27 de septiembre, de apoyo a los emprendedores y su internacionalización. Las características del alumnado de dichos ciclos se han tenido en cuenta por parte de los autores tanto en la redacción de los epígrafes como en el planteamiento didáctico de las actividades y las tareas propuestas. Bajo el subtítulo de La importancia de llamarse emprendedor,los autores han ido organizando los contenidos de la obra, que se estructura en once unidades planteadas como un itinerario competencial de la persona desde la iniciativa y la inspiración (que son el punto de partida de todo proyecto personal) hasta la autonomía y la autorrealización como propósito individual. Para ello, las unidades presentan una estructura en la que se parte de una lectura inicial introductoria, tras la cual se presentan los contenidos de forma clara e ilustrados con diversos esquemas que ayudan a su comprensión; también se aportan numerosas y motivadoras actividades propuestas, se acompaña la explicación con curiosidades y llamadas refl ejadas en los cuadros de Sabías que... y Recuerda, se definen los conceptos más complejos en los cuadros deVocabulario y se incluyen citas de algún emprendedor que aporta su punto de vista sobre lo trabajado en los apartados de La frase. Además, al fi nal de cada unidad se incluye una actividad denominada La importancia de llamarse..., en la que el alumno deberá descubrir la identidad de un emprendedor conocido a partir de una imagen y una pista. Al final de cada unidad se incluye un práctico mapa conceptual, que permitirá repasar y fijar lo aprendido en ella, además de test de repaso, una dinámica de grupo y un apartado denominado Emprende, para trabajar y reflexionar sobre los conceptos estudiados de manera amena y práctica a través de un crucigrama realizado sobre aspectos tratados en la unidad y con la visualización de películas o fragmentos de ellas y su análisis a través de un cuestionario. Además, se pone a disposición de los usuarios un aula virtual que ofrece un conjunto de útiles recursos digitales (archivos, documentos, presentaciones, vídeos e infografías) y desde la que se podrá acceder a eventuales actualizaciones de los contenidos. También ofrece la posibilidad a profesores y a alumnos de generar un cuaderno de trabajo con actividades evaluadas con trazabilidad. El acceso a esta es posible enviando una solicitud a [email protected].
Payne's study places Spain's Second Republic within the historical framework of Spanish liberalism, and the rapid modernisation of inter-war Europe. He aims to present a consistent and detailed interpretation, demonstrating striking parallels to the German Weimar Republic.
This book explores key metropolitan management issues, presents practical principles of good governance as they apply to the metropolis, and unfolds cases of institutional and programmatic arrangements to tackle such issues.
Entrepreneurial Selves is an ethnography of neoliberalism. Bridging political economy and affect studies, Carla Freeman turns a spotlight on the entrepreneur, a figure saluted across the globe as the very embodiment of neoliberalism. Steeped in more than a decade of ethnography on the emergent entrepreneurial middle class of Barbados, she finds dramatic reworkings of selfhood, intimacy, labor, and life amid the rumbling effects of political-economic restructuring. She shows us that the déjà vu of neoliberalism, the global hailing of entrepreneurial flexibility and its concomitant project of self-making, can only be grasped through the thickness of cultural specificity where its costs and pleasures are unevenly felt. Freeman theorizes postcolonial neoliberalism by reimagining the Caribbean cultural model of 'reputation-respectability.' This remarkable book will allow readers to see how the material social practices formerly associated with resistance to capitalism (reputation) are being mobilized in ways that sustain neoliberal precepts and, in so doing, re-map class, race, and gender through a new emotional economy.
The authors of the international bestseller Business Model Generation explain how to create value propositions customers can’t resist Value Proposition Design helps you tackle the core challenge of every business — creating compelling products and services customers want to buy. This highly practical book, paired with its online companion, will teach you the processes and tools you need to create products that sell. Using the same stunning visual format as the authors’ global bestseller, Business Model Generation, this sequel explains how to use the “Value Proposition Canvas” to design, test, create, and manage products and services customers actually want. Value Proposition Design is for anyone who has been frustrated by new product meetings based on hunches and intuitions; it’s for anyone who has watched an expensive new product launch fail in the market. The book will help you understand the patterns of great value propositions, get closer to customers, and avoid wasting time with ideas that won’t work. You’ll learn the simple process of designing and testing value propositions, that perfectly match customers’ needs and desires. In addition the book gives you exclusive access to an online companion on Strategyzer.com. You will be able to assess your work, learn from peers, and download pdfs, checklists, and more. Value Proposition Design is an essential companion to the ”Business Model Canvas” from Business Model Generation, a tool embraced globally by startups and large corporations such as MasterCard, 3M, Coca Cola, GE, Fujitsu, LEGO, Colgate-Palmolive, and many more. Value Proposition Design gives you a proven methodology for success, with value propositions that sell, embedded in profitable business models."
On a mountainside in sunny Tuscany, in October 1989, 96 people from 23 countries on five continents gathered to learn and teach about the problems of managing contemporary science. The diversity of economic and political systems represented in the group was matched by our occupations, which stretched from science policy practitioners, through research scientists and engineers, through academic observers of science and science policy. It was this diversity, along with the opportunities for infonnal discussion provided by long meals and remote location, that made the conference a special learning experience. Except at lecture time, it was impossible to distinguish the "students" at this event from the "teachers," and even the most senior members of the teaching staff went away with a sense that they had learned more from this group than from many a standard conference on science policy they had attended. The flavor of the conference experience cannot be captured adequately in a proceedings volume, and so we have not tried to create a historical record in this book. Instead, we have attempted to illustrate the core problems the panicipants at the conference shared, discussed, and debated, using both lectures delivered by the fonnal teaching staff and summaries of panel discussions, which extended to other panicipants and therefore increased the range of experiences reponed.
Learn what a flipped classroom is and why it works, and get the information you need to flip a classroom. You’ll also learn the flipped mastery model, where students learn at their own pace, furthering opportunities for personalized education. This simple concept is easily replicable in any classroom, doesn’t cost much to implement, and helps foster self-directed learning. Once you flip, you won’t want to go back!
This book documents and disseminates experiences from a wide range of universities, across the five continents, which showcase how the principles of sustainable development may be incorporated as part of university programmes, and present transformatory projects and programmes, showing how sustainability can be implemented across disciplines. Sustainability in a higher education context is a fast growing field. Thousands of universities across the world have signed declarations or have committed themselves to integrate the principles of sustainable development in their activities: teaching, research and extension, and many more will follow.