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Where Have I Seen You Before? Networks, Trust and Reciprocity as a Source of Collaboration in the Public Service

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although some studies focus on how bureaucrats' interactions with one another affect performance, they rarely focus on why these public servants collaborate. Bureaucrats' collaboration matters because it can significantly contribute to achieving policy goals.
Nathalie Mendez
wiley   +1 more source

Communities actively seek nature for well‐being despite constraints: (Re)representation of nature experiences through composite narratives

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract While the physical and mental health benefits of greenspace exposure are well documented, ethnic minority communities in the United Kingdom continue to engage with these environments at disproportionately lower rates. This persistent disparity points to an oversight in existing literature, specifically regarding how these communities navigate ...
Andrew K. Palmer, Mark Riley, Beth F. T. Brockett, Laurence Jones, Sarah Clement, Karl L. Evans   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the evolutionary distinctiveness of a highly threatened plant group: The urgency to preserve a unique lineage of evolution in Brazil

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Brazil's diverse flora is under several threats, with many unique lineages facing extinction, particularly in biodiverse regions like the Cerrado and campo rupestre. This study sheds light on the conservation needs of Cambessedesia (Melastomataceae), an endemic genus with 95% of its species endangered, using an approach to rank and prioritise species ...
Najla Bastos Scheidegger, Raquel C. Pizzardo, Bruno Vilela, Thuane Bochorny, Juliana Gastaldello Rando   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unnatural Causes: Cryptocurrencies, Carbon Credits, and the rise of Neoliberalism from Below

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Klima is a carbon‐backed cryptocurrency running as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). In 2021, it had accumulated 9 million metric tons of digital carbon credits and reached a market value of more than US$1 billion. In 2023, its treasury stored twice as many carbon credits, but its spot price was a tiny fraction compared to 2021 ...
Riccardo De Cristano, Alexander Paulsson
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating multimodal data and machine learning for entrepreneurship research

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Extant research in neuroscience suggests that human perception is multimodal in nature—we model the world integrating diverse data sources such as sound, images, taste, and smell. Working in a dynamic environment, entrepreneurs are expected to draw on multimodal inputs in their decision making.
Yash Raj Shrestha, Vivianna Fang He
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Classroom Walls: The Impact of Field Trips on Pre-Service Teachers' Engagement with Performing Arts in a Bachelor of Education Programme

SOTL in the South
This study investigates how field trips to a jazz concert and theatre performance enhance pre-service teachers’ engagement with performing arts in a South African Bachelor of Education programme.
Samantha Kriger, Marina Albertyn
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring professional collaboration at the boundary between content and language teaching from a CHAT approach [PDF]

Ibérica, 2015
Different ways in which the integration of content and language emerges within higher education language policies and classroom teaching and learning are well studied in the literature, as are methods and techniques that could be useful in classrooms to ...
Emilee Moore, Joan Ploettner, Mandy Deal
doaj  

Investigating Language Teacher Cognition and Vocabulary Instruction: A Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) Analysis

, 2016
Premised in the field of second/foreign language teacher education, this study examined language teacher cognition (LTC) from a cultural-historical activity theory perspective. Involving three groups of Cambodian pre-service, novice and experienced teachers of English in a tertiary context in Cambodia, its major aim was twofold: to explore teachers ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
wiley   +1 more source

Les écrits au travail comme supports de subjectivation

Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances
Writing practices are a recurrent feature of modern workplaces. Building upon action research conducted within a health call center, this paper addresses the relationship between organizational change and psychological development.
Maria Ianeva
doaj   +1 more source