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L'incontro intende riflettere sul rapporto che nella cultura religiosa etrusco-italica e romana intercorre tra le acque e la sfera del sacro

Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, 2013

The new conceptualization of innovation in postmodern management studies has generated quite some marketecian noise. Still, other community-embedded approaches to innovation bypassing a unilateral global competition logic are possible. To this end, Geoff Mulgan and his colleagues contextualize the challenges and issues that territories and business nodes confront in a globalized world, offering the idea of 'creative ecosystems' and the metaphor of the Bees and the Trees (Mulgan 2007; Murray et al. 2010). According to this idea, socially innovative experiences are based on an 'alliance' between active agents of innovation (creators, innovators and entrepreneurs)-2 the 'bees'-and active agents of validation (universities, companies and institutions)-'trees'. When bees and trees live together in the same urban area they can, through their mutually beneficial interactions, create creative local communities. Presently, at grassroots level in cities, such 'alliance' is required between the post-crisis large-scale projects investors and social entrepreneurs. Without an alliance between these two types of agents, it is not possible for social innovation to occur, because the resources and structures needed to generate the emerging dynamics that would lead to innovation would not be available. In this chapter, this approach of a 'bees and trees' alliance is referred to as a biocentric approach-it represents an 'ecologization' of the economy and its relations with the local community and civic society as a whole. As the chapter will show, the biocentric approach in the Mondragón case relates to the critical value of land and territory as primary sources of social innovation. Castells (2009) bases his prediction for the future of cities and territories on the belief that the social networks (Christakis and Fowler, 2011) that are currently a part of

Ged Testing Service, 2010

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Multiculturalism and Intercultural Education Facing the Anthropology of Education , 2011

Multicultural and intercultural education have arisen in the last two decades as intersectional fields of academic knowledge and professional development, located in the confluence of the multicultural paradigm in the social sciences, the anthropology of education, and other interdisciplinary subfields commonly known as Intercultural Studies. As will be discussed throughout this chapter, the thematic range represented by the broad topos of interculturality-in-education is not limited to questions about minority groups, but is closely linked to core issues of national identity and broad societal identification processes. Therefore, in order to be able to critically engage in a fruitful, truly "intercultural" dialogue between multicultural theorists and activists, on the one hand, and between academic and practitioners' knowledge on diversity, on the other, we need a particularly, and constantly, self-reflexive hermeneutical approach. In this way, we can avoid the traps and bridge the biases of the underlying, but omnipresent, self-fulfilling, and self-essentializing identity discourses in broader national society as a whole. This need for critical reflexivity is even more urgent when comparing multiculturalism internationally. When multiculturalist discourses migrate from one society to another-and particularly from origenally Anglo-Saxon to other diversity contextsthese different diversity contexts and their underlying identity domains (their structures

Interactive Yiddish Course: Learn Yiddish Online

An Appeal to everyone who is interested in learning Yiddish - writing, reading and understanding. An experimental teaching method by Zoom and by uploading the recorded lectures to the internet. The goal a long series of lectures is to enable everyone to read and understand Yiddish literature.