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From disorientation to preparedness: Information practices as scaffolding in acute crises

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This qualitative study examines how adults in Israel enacted information practices during an acute national crisis. Using the information transitions framework, we investigate how concrete practices emerge and evolve across three stages: understanding, negotiating, and resolving. Semi‐structured Zoom interviews with 18 adults were analyzed via
Lilach Alon, Tali Malinoff, Inbar Levkovich   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analyse multidimensionnelle de la précarité dans le système urbain français

Cybergeo
Precarity is a multidimensional notion that combines economic instability, monetary poverty, and a marginalization from stable employment. Although its manifestations have been examined – particularly within sociology – geographical research has focused ...
Paul Gourdon, Matthieu Delage, Julie Fromentin, Benoit Conti, Sophie Baudet-Michel, Laurent Terral   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Living Precarious Lives? Time and Temporality in Visual Arts Careers

Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2020
Although precarity has always been a characteristic feature of artistic labour, many critics now claim it is becoming more widespread and engrained. However, while the idea of precarity offers a good descriptor of the conditions of artistic labour, it ...
Paula Serafini, Mark Banks
doaj   +1 more source

The ‘frustrated’ housing aspirations of generation rent [PDF]

, 2018
No abstract ...
McKee, Kim, Soaita, Adriana Mihaela
core  

Shifting landscapes: from coalface to quick sand? Teaching geography, earth and environmental sciences in UK higher education [PDF]

, 2016
In this paper we examine contemporary academic working lives, with particular reference to teaching-only and teaching-focused academics. We argue that intensification in the neoliberal university has significantly shifted the structure of academic ...
Angervall, Bauder, Bearman, Cashmore, Castree, Chappell, Dowling, Ellis, Gill, Hall, Hellsten, HESA (Higher Education Statistics Agency), House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, Kahn, Locke, Maddrell, May, Ní Laoire, Park, Peters, Posecznick, Probert, Purcell, Rossi, Shelton, Sidaway, Sidaway, Wainwright   +27 more
core   +1 more source

Teacher‐makers and teacher‐breakers: (Re)defining how status and safety influence trajectories into and away from teaching

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper uses empirical data from a longitudinal qualitative study conducted with aspirant teachers in England to propose (re)definitions of the concepts of ‘status’ and ‘safety’ as a framework with which to understand and improve teacher recruitment.
Emily MacLeod
wiley   +1 more source

Semantic web learning technology design: addressing pedagogical challenges and precarious futures [PDF]

, 2016
Semantic web technologies have the potential to extend and transform teaching and learning, particularly in those educational settings in which learners are encouraged to engage with ‘authentic’ data from multiple sources. In the course of the ‘Ensemble’
Carmichael, Patrick
core   +1 more source

Learning to ‘be’ an activist: Exploring the relationship between activism and informal education in a youth activism group case study

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people in the United States (and beyond) access spaces for activism in varied ways, including the out‐of‐school time sector, where youth activism (YA) groups draw on informal learning pedagogies to engage young people in collective action.
Laura Weiner
wiley   +1 more source

Precariousness in employment mediated by digital platforms. Evidence from Europe

Revista de Economía Mundial
Is precarity inherent to employment when it is mediated by a digital platform, or does employment precarity have other causes? Using the first wave of the European survey on collaborative economy and employment (COLLEEM, hereinafter), we identify ...
María Isabel de Andres, Emilio Congregado, María Concepción Román   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Job Precarity, Contract Work, and Self-Care

Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2019
Job precarity is an active and real issue in the libraries. This piece will explore job precarity as it applies libraries and the financial and emotional strain attached to it, with some strategies for self-care while applying to precarious work and in ...
Sajni Lacey
doaj   +1 more source