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Espino, Eric V. "Collective economics : leveraging purchasing power of low-income communities for collective gain : Lawrence Community Works and the Network Advantage Program." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/40119.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (p. 88).
This thesis focuses on the concept of Collective Economics and develops a set of recommendations by which groups with common interests can effectively utilize their purchasing power for collective benefits. Working with Lawrence Community Works (LCW), the thesis provides an economic profile of the organization's membership as the basis for proposing partnerships that seek to leverage the purchasing power of members for collective benefits. Based in Lawrence, MA, LCW is a community development corporation dedicated to investing in both people and place as well as increasing ownership in the community by the community. As an immigrant city and one of the poorest in the Commonwealth, there are few opportunities for residents to break out of an economic cycle all too common among a large portion of the citizenry. In an effort to counter this cycle and provide hope for members, LCW is looking to use their established Network as the vehicle to promote a demand-oriented environment where group size and economic characteristics can be leveraged for group discounts and benefits.
(cont.) Through the use of survey data and a discussion of lessons learned from a handful of interviews, I propose partnership ideas centered on marker-oriented approaches to using LCW's size, members' consumer preferences, and purchasing power to secure member benefits or channel money into a community fund. Focusing on the effective directing of members' preferences and financial habits for collective gain, proposed partnerships highlight the amount of money that can be saved by members as well as gained by partners in the form of additional revenue.
by Eric V. Espino.
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Dumpson, Donald. "FOUR SCHOLARS' ENGAGEMENT OF WORKS BY CLASSICAL COMPOSERS OF AFRICAN DESCENT: A COLLECTIVE CASE STUDY." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/261236.
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Music EducationPh.D.
The purpose of this research was to investigate ways classical composers of African descent have been included in the mainstream academic canon. I examined the insights of four scholars who have been committed to including classical composers of African descent throughout their music careers. The initial research questions of this study were: 1) How do participants describe their frameworks for making the commitment to include classical composers of African descent throughout their careers? 2) What have been the challenges and benefits associated with their commitment? 3) What might contemporary scholars view as strategies for integrating classical composers of African descent into the mainstream academic canon? Four musicians, who have contributed to the scholarship related to classical works by composers of African descent in very different ways, participated in this qualitative collective case study: Dr. Ysaye Maria Barnwell, a composer and performer; Dr. Dominique-Rene de Lerma, musicologist; Dr. Anthony Thomas Leach, educator, conductor, and organist; and Mr. Hannibal Lokumbe, composer, trumpeter, and visionary. Through two in-depth interviews with each of the four scholars, a related question emerged: How have the participants contributed to the inclusion of classical composers of African descent throughout professional careers and personal lives? I transcribed the interviews, returned them to the participants for member checks, and prepared final, revised transcripts based on their feedback for analysis. I examined the interview data to obtain a collective representation related to the research questions. I analyzed the data for emerging codes, categories, and themes until details considered substantive to the research emerged. Themes that emerged focused on the need to identify the importance of seeing the contributions for classical composers of African descent from an Afrocentric as well as a Eurocentric perspective; the impact of the Civil Rights Movement on how each participant engaged the music throughout their lives; the importance of informal and formal education and the roles family, community, and school played in their relationship with the music they shared; and, the significance of creating access to their works through publications and professional associations.
Temple University--Theses
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Petersen, Elizabeth Ann. "Find What Works Best for You: Learning to Practice in a Large Ensemble." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1543425844555961.
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Wilson, Wendy. "Heimat and memory in the city representations of New York City and Vienna in autobiographical works of exiled Viennese authors /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (ProQuest) Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2009. http://worldcat.org/oclc/451004175/viewonline.
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Schofield, Benedict Keble. "Private lives and collective destinies : class, nation and the folk in the works of Gustav Freytag (1816-1895)." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2009. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10357/.
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This thesis examines the works of Gustav Freytag against the changing socio-political backdrop of the Vormarz, Nachmarz and Griinderzeit. It analyses the concepts of class, nation and folk in his writings, and provides an account of their shifting literary representation between 1840 and 1890. For the first time in recent criticism, it analyses all of Freytag's published work - his poetry, dramas, novels, theatrical theory, journalism, and historical and biographical studies. The thesis reveals a coherent anti-aristocratic position III Freytag's fiction, expressed through a thematic preoccupation with inter-class relationships. It argues that Freytag's love stories encode in the domestic a political polemic which presents German society as undergoing a process of radical bourgeoisification. It traces how Freytag's class concerns are increasingly nationalised after the revolutions of 1848, and explores how his Nachmarz writing constructs a concept of German national identity based on a sense of common German values. It argues that Freytag's later preoccupation with German history allowed him to synthesise his twin concerns of class and nation into a pseudo-philosophical concept termed the Volkskraft - a myth of German folk identity which is shown to be central to Freytag's final historical and literary works. It is a central contention of this project that Freytag's texts not only reflect issues of class, nation and the folk, but that these concepts were key to the coherent political agenda he wished to disseminate through his writing. It is argued that Freytag's works present a systematic attempt to re-imagine the social and political structures of Germany, positioning the bourgeoisie at the heart of the German nation state. Ultimately, Freytag is shown to promote a significantly more radical concept of sociopolitical relations in German society than research into his work has hitherto acknowledged.
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Kuhan, Anura. "The holocaust in Poland : a study of works dealing with the issue of Polish people's collective behaviour in the holocaust /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09ark958.pdf.
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Nyehita, Suzanne Ghati. "The Operation and Regulation of Collective Management Organizations of Music Works in the Digital Era: A Review of Kenya’s Legislative Framework." Master's thesis, Faculty of Law, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30555.
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The era of digitization has brought about new categories of copyright works and new modes of dissemination of these works. This has affected music works copyright, collective management of these rights and the law of copyright as a whole. Scholars hold different opinions on the effect of technological advancement on collective management. One tier believes that it expands the role of CMOs by providing the most appropriate and convenient way to exercise these new bundles of rights. The other tier believes that CMOs might become irrelevant since new technologies enable copyright holders to maintain a direct relationship with users. Consequently, this dissertation seeks to prove that digitization is complementary to the role of CMOs. It is complementary if and when the legislative structure is reformed to contain technology specific provisions. In turn this would justify the continued existence of CMOs.
The research will focus on collective management of music works in Kenya. A majority of Kenyans have access to internet making it easier to use and disseminate musical works in the digital environment. This research questions whether this type of usage is subject to collective management and whether the current copyright laws facilitate collective management in the digital environment.
The main hypothesis developed is: effective regulation of copyright offers a better attempt at ensuring efficiency of CMOs in the digital era. Kenya’s copyright laws have been amended severally to reflect changes in copyright law. Constant litigation in the area of copyright seeking to interpret the application of current statutory provisions in the digital era, offers a clear indication that the amendments and application of the current copyright laws is not effective given the technological evolution.
African countries like South Africa and Nigeria have started their legislative journey in amending their copyright laws. Kenya needs to appreciate the need to amend the current copyright laws and start its own journey of regulating copyright in the digital era.
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Céa, Aurélie. "L'unité économique et sociale en droit du travail." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016BORD0053/document.
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L’UES constitue un outil de recomposition du cadre de l’entreprise. Le recours à l’UES permet en effetde considérer que plusieurs entités juridiquement distinctes constituent, en droit du travail, uneentreprise unique. La reconnaissance de l’UES facilite alors la mise en oeuvre de normes déterminéespar le juge ou le législateur, parmi lesquelles figurent en premier lieu celles relatives à la représentationcollective du personnel. L’évolution de son utilisation a façonné son périmètre en un cadre d’exercicedes droits collectifs des salariés. Toutefois, si le recours à l’UES correspond à la recherche de l’entrepriseen droit du travail, son régime demeure à l’état de « construit jurisprudentiel » élaboré à des fins utiles.Il laisse un sentiment d’inachevé. Les conséquences de la reconnaissance d’une UES ne peuventatteindre les relations individuelles de travail. Les salariés demeurent contractuellement liés à leursemployeurs respectifs. La constatation d’un pouvoir de direction unique entre les entités juridiques nepermet pas considérer l’UES comme étant l’employeur unique de l’ensemble des salariés, ni même queses membres sont autant de coemployeurs. L’absence de personnalité morale reconnue à ce type degroupement représente incontestablement une limite dans la construction d’un régime juridique. Lessolutions applicables dans un groupe d’entreprises peuvent également l’être dans l’UES. Cependant,elles ne représentent que des alternatives limitées à l’attribution de la personnalité morale. Or, dans lecadre de la théorie de la réalité de la personne morale, il apparaît que l’UES pourrait être considéréecomme telle. La reconnaissance de la personnalité morale aurait pour effet de rendre solidairementresponsables ses membres à l’égard de l’emploi des salariés qui contribuent au déploiement de l’activitééconomique dans ce périmètreUES constitutes a tool used to recompose the framework of the company. UES permits to consider thatseveral legally distinct entities constitute, in fact, a unique company. The recognition of an UESfacilitates the application of norms determined by the judge or the legislator, and especially normsrelated to collective representation. The evolution of its use has shaped its perimeter in a framework forthe exercise of the employees’ collective rights. However, if the UES corresponds in the search of thecompany in labor law, its regime stays at the state of "built case law" developed for useful purposes. Itleaves a feeling of unfinished. The consequences of the UES recognition cannot reach the individualworking relations. The employees remain contractually bound to their respective employers. Theobservation of a unique direction power between the legal entities doesn't permit to consider UES asbeing the unique employer of the set of the employees, nor even that its members are as much coemployers.The absence of moral personality of this type of grouping represents incontestably a limit inthe construction of its legal regime. The applicable solutions in a group of companies can also beapplicable in the UES. However, they only represent alternatives limited to the assignment of the moralpersonality. However, in the setting of the theory of the reality of the moral person, it appears that UEScould be considered like such. The recognition of the moral personality would have the effect of makingjointly responsible its members towards the employment of the employees who contribute to thedeployment of the economic activity in this perimeter
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Andersdotter, Karolina. "A Single-Minded Market for Digital Assets? : Copyright clearance of orphan works in the digitisation ecosystem." Thesis, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-328034.
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This dissertation assesses the Swedish and the United Kingdom (UK) legislative frameworks for cross-border copyright clearance of orphan works in mass-digitisation schemes. By reviewing relevant copyright frameworks and practices around the world, interviewing Swedish and British experts in the field of libraries and copyright, and discussing the national solutions applied in Sweden and the UK, conclusions are drawn to form a roadmap for future policy work in the area. The findings are that even though copyright clearance systems for orphan works work well in their national context, they wouldn’t be transferable to a cross-border context due to the different legal and societal traditions in the EU Member States. Solutions for cross-border access could be a general copyright law exception (which is a time-consuming process and therefore less usable in practice in the next 5-10 years), create and build on rightsholder registers with increased collaboration with CMOs, changed management of digital collections (e.g. only digitising orphan works that are in the public domain), or work towards soft legislative solutions (such as an MoU).Licens: CC BY 4.0
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Andrieu, Mélanie. "Une spécificité Cobra : les œuvres collectives : émergence d’une pratique et exemplarité de Christian Dotremont." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011TOU20048.
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Cette thèse est une étude du mouvement Cobra à travers les œuvres collectives, une de ses composantes caractéristiques. Il s’agit tout d’abord de comprendre le mouvement, ses origines et influences, ainsi que sa visée d’un art libre, ouvert, expérimental, partie prenante de la vie. Dans un contexte social d’après-guerre, souvent politisé, Cobra défend l’action collective, définie notamment dans les notions d’antispécialisme et d’interspécialisme. Il convient de mettre en exergue les origines de cette pratique, et saisir les divers aspects qu’elle arbore, notamment au travers de revues, d’expositions ou de créations partagées. Le poète Christian Dotremont, animateur et âme de Cobra, favorise le travail de collaboration et contribue à son développement en stimulant les rencontres artistiques. Il se fait le passeur et le permanent « agitateur » de cette notion. Les peintures-mots qu’il crée avec d’autres artistes participent à sa réflexion majeure sur l’écriture et la peinture. Ce lien interpelle quelques artistes belges comme Pierre Alechinsky, mais il passionne Christian Dotremont qui ne cesse de multiplier les expériences à ce propos, pour aboutir à ce qu’il nomme les logogrammes, remarquable fusion de la peinture et de la poésie, et aboutissement de toute une vie de recherche. Ce travail est structuré en trois points. Le premier établit une étude du contexte artistique et social des années précédent Cobra puis la mise en place du groupe. Le second aborde les années d’intense activité « officielle » du groupe, au service du collectif. Enfin, le troisième propose de suivre l’évolution post-Cobra des œuvres collectives et des recherches sur l’écriture et la peintureThis thesis is a study of the Cobra movement through one of its characteristic components: the collective works. First of all it's about understanding the movement, its origins (three countries), its influences and its purpose of a free art, open, experimental, involvement with life. In a social after-war context, often politicized, Cobra defends collective action, notably defined in concepts of anti-specialism and inter-specialism. We should therefore underline the origins of this practice and undestand different aspects that it shows, in particular through publications, exhibitions or shared creations. The poet Christian Dotremont, leader and soul of Cobra, promotes cooperative work by collaboration and contributes to its development by stimulating artistic meetings. He is the purveyor and permanent "agitator" of this concept. The words-paintings that he creates with other artists, take part of his major thinking about writing and painting. This link interpellates a few Belgian artists like Pierre Alechinsky, but it fascinates Christian Dotremont who keeps experimenting on it, in order to reach what he calls the logograms, a remarkable fusion of painting and poetry, and a culmination of a life-time of research.This work is structured in three parts. The first one draws a study of the artistic and social context of the years preceding Cobra and the setting up of the group. The second one talks about years of intense "official" activity of the group serving collective way of work. Finally, the third one offers to follow the post-Cobra evolution of collective works and researches about writing and painting
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Armillei, Valentino. "La négociation extra-syndicale des accords collectifs d’entreprise : essai sur l’expression de la volonté de la partie salariale." Thesis, Paris 2, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA020040.
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Appelé pour une large part à se construire sur l’accord collectif d’entreprise, le droit du travail ne peut pas faire l’économie du débat tenant à l’identification de la partie salariale à ce type d’accord. Si l’accord collectif s’est forgé sur le modèle d’une négociation conduite avec les syndicats, leur carence ou leur absence, conjuguées à la nécessité ou à la volonté d’utiliser les nouvelles opportunités offertes par l’accord, imposent la reconnaissance d’autres acteurs. La notion d’accord collectif d’entreprise en ressort profondément troublée, notamment lorsque la collectivité des salariés intervient par voie référendaire pour créer ou valider l’accord collectif. Mais parce que le référendum ne répond pas au modèle de l’accord collectif négocié, une nouvelle summa divisio émerge entre accords collectifs négociés et accords collectifs d’adhésion, dont le régime diffère parfois sensiblement. Insuffisant pour retisser les liens entre les syndicats et les salariés, le référendum se développe en même temps que s’accroît l’intervention d’autres représentants, directement élus par la collectivité des salariés, donc bénéficiant d’une forte légitimité, à tel point que les accords issus de négociations conduites avec eux sont de même nature que ceux conclus avec les syndicats…Largely shaped upon collective bargaining agreement, labour law cannot afford to bypass the debate relating to the identification of the employees party to these agreements. If the collective bargaining agreement was built upon a model of negotiation with the unions, the lack or absence of the latter, combined with the necessity or desire to use the new opportunities offered by the agreement, dictates the acknowledgement of other protagonists. The notion of collective bargaining agreement comes out deeply altered. Employees intervene by way of referendum to create or validate the agreement. But because the referendum does not follow the model of the negotiated collective agreement, a new summa divisio emerges between negotiated agreements and adherence agreements, the regime of which sometimes differs lightly from the former. Insufficient to forge bonds between unions and employees, the referendum develops at the same time as the intervention of other representatives, directly elected by the employees, thus benefitting from a strong legitimacy, to the extent that the agreements resulting from negotiations conducted with them are of the same nature as those concluded with unions
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Vignado, Jane. "Desafios da construção de uma proposta de trabalho coletivo docente referenciada pela investigação-ação na formação continuada de professores de educação infantil." [s.n.], 2007. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/251626.
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Orientador: Guilherme do Val Toledo PradoTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação
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Resumo: Essa pesquisa narra os desafios da construção de uma proposta de trabalho coletivo docente na educação infantil que, entre o primeiro semestre de 2003 e o primeiro semestre de 2005, envolveu 4 professoras de um CIMEI (Centro Integrado Municipal de Educação Infantil) da cidade de Campinas-SP. A opção por desenvolver a presente pesquisa na Educação Infantil orientou-se pela crença de que os professores são sujeitos histórico-político-culturais, portanto capazes de construir saberes e conhecimentos a partir da reflexão sobre a própria prática e rediscutir a razão de ser da Educação Infantil. Encontro em Paulo Freire a base epistemológica necessária para compreender que educar é um ato coletivo, participativo e que apenas os seres humanos são capazes de aprender com alegria e na esperança de que a transformação é um ato possível, mesmo quando a situação seja desfavorável. O inventário de dados da presente investigação foi construído a partir dos diários de campos; das entrevistas com as professoras; das conversas com os membros da comunidade escolar; das análises do projeto político pedagógico e dos planejamentos de ensino do grupo de professoras. As análises sugerem que o trabalho coletivo docente referenciado pela Investigação-Ação promove: a reflexão sobre a prática docente na perspectiva de potencializar mudanças no cotidiano escolar; o surgimento e manutenção de grupo de professores como espaço de formação, de resistência, de acolhimento e bem-estar; abre outras possibilidades de parcerias como, por exemplo, escola-comunidade, escola-universidade.
Abstract: This research relates the challenges of the construction of a suggestion of teaching collective work in the infantile education, that among the first semester of 2003 to the first semester of 2005, involved 4 teachers of a CIMEI (Integrated Municipal Center of Infantile Education) of the city of Campinas-SP. The option for developing the present research in the Infantile Education was oriented for the belief that teachers of this level of formation are historic-politician-cultural citizens, therefore capable to construct knowledges from the reflection about the self expericence and rediscuss the reason of being of the Infantile Education. I find in Paulo Freire the epistemological structure needful to understand that to educate is a collective and participating act, that only the human beings are able to learn with joy in hope that a transformation is a possible act, even when the situation is unfavorable. The inventory of data of the present inquiry was constructed with the daily journals; the interviews with the teachers; the speech with members of the scholar community; the analyses of the pedagogical politician project and the education plannings of the group of teachers. The analyses suggest that the teaching collective work by action-research intensify: the reflection on the teaching practical in perspective of changes in the day-by-day of the school; the appearance and maintenance of group as space of formation, resistance, shelter and well-being; it opens other possibilities of partnerships as, for example, school-community, school-university.
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Tolley, Rebecca. "Review of Chicago History Museum, Digital Collection: Costume and Textile Collection." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5646.
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Michaeli, Maya. "Testimony of war in the works of Marguerite Duras : an alternative discourse of otherness and responsibility." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016IEPP0047.
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Cette étude décrit la singulière conception de la responsabilité qui se dégage des œuvres de Marguerite Duras sur la Seconde Guerre mondiale, en raison de son approche unique des thèmes de l'altérité (internes et externes) et des « Autres ». Mon étude montre comment les œuvres de Duras (les textes littéraires et les films) créent une interaction entre la mémoire et l'histoire, d'une manière qui offre une alternative aux récits et narratives dominantes de son époque. Mon analyse de l’œuvre de Duras se base sur trois cadres théoriques: une approche historique de la France, de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et de la mémoire collective française de ces années ; une perspective féministe de l'écriture des femmes sur la guerre ; et enfin, les théories du témoignage de l'Holocauste. Cette analyse multidisciplinaire, historique, culturelle, philosophique et éthique, me permet de démontrer comment les œuvres de Duras contribuent à la discussion publique autour de la responsabilité de la France par rapport à son histoire. Plus largement, mon étude permet de repenser le concept de « témoignage » et ses fonctions éthiques. Mon argument principal est que la lecture des œuvres de Duras en tant que témoignage offre une voie alternative concernant les questions historiques et les questions de la mémoire, de la narration et de la représentation. Cette lecture permet également de reconsidérer des concepts multi-niveaux tels que : la guerre, les relations de genre en temps de guerre, la vengeance, l’ennemi, la torture et la justice. Par conséquent, à travers l’analyse des œuvres de fiction et des récits autobiographiques de Duras, l'étude démontre comment la pratique du témoignage de l’auteure peut interpeller les lectrices et les lecteurs, en les encourageant à assumer une responsabilité au présent pour les événements du passéThis study describes the unique conception of responsibility derived from Marguerite Duras' works about World War II by virtue of her unique approach in these works to the themes of otherness (both internal and external) and "Others." It demonstrates how Duras' works (both texts and films) create an interplay between memory and history in a way that offers an alternative to the dominant narratives of her era as well as to its dominant modes of narration. The discussion unfolds within three theoretical frameworks: the historical discourse about France in WWII and about the French collective memory of these years; the feminist discourse about women's writing on war; and the discourse about Holocaust testimony. This historical, cultural, and philosophical-ethical multidisciplinary analysis allows me to demonstrate how Duras' works contribute to the ongoing discussion about the French responsibility concerning their history and at the same time, more broadly, to rethink the concept of "testimony" and testimony’s ethical functions. My main argument is that reading Duras' works as testimonies offers an alternative way of relating to questions of history, memory, narration, and representation, as well as to the meanings of multilayered concepts such as war, gender power relations in war, revenge, enemy, torture, and justice. Hence, the study demonstrates through the fictional and autobiographic works of Duras how the practice of testimony can involve an assumption of responsibility for past events in the present
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Fetterplace, Cameron. "Resisting work : Collective perspectives onequality and liberation." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-188322.
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Wage work, as a norm and institution, is more and more obviously incapable of fulfilling its promises: for gender equality, social integration, meaning, or even equitably meeting our basic needs. Yet, despite struggles for more, less, or better work, there is minimal public protest against work itself. Using qualitative, open-ended survey responses from 34 people who described themselves as resisting traditional work norms, this study explores the ways the participants conceive of work and their resistance to it. A feminist work-critical theoretical lens and reflexive thematic analysis as method are brought to bear on underexplored collective motivations and justifications for resisting work. The results indicate that people are not only driven by individualistic motives to resist work, but see work as in conflict with the basic needs of human connection and caring for social relationships.They also desire even more freedom from work than they have already achieved, and for this freedom to include everybody.
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Olson, Ted. "Recording Review of Nilsson, The RCA Albums Collection." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1166.
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Olson, Ted S. "Balladry and Ballad-Collecting in Appalachia: An Introduction." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5512.
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Excerpt: Among the most enduring artifacts (along with certain lined-out hymns that are traceable back to sixteenth-century British churches) from the early days of European settlement in Appalachia, ballads are still in everyday use in some regional households and among certain performers, if largely outside the purview of the popular music industry. Even if reduced in range and frequency of performance from their heyday during the preindustrial and early industrial eras, ballads remain relevant today, as they are gems of compact storytelling that communicate thematically timeless narratives.
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De, Boer David Michael. "Selected Works from the Collection of Michael Cavendish." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1522564.
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My MFA thesis exhibition, Selected Works from the Collection of Michael Cavendish utilizes a curatorial process of selection and display to disrupt the authority associated with authorship. By utilizing curatorial actions such as selecting, organizing, displaying and writing, I am able to justify an object's presence. This critical approach, acknowledges the complex and dynamic space between object, creator, viewing context, and audience.
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Olson, Ted. "Recording Review of Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1168.
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Aunis, Émilie. "D'improbables ouvriers ? Les ouvriers d'industrie poitevins, entre dissolution et recomposition des collectifs." Thesis, Poitiers, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014POIT5002.
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Les ouvriers de l'industrie, largement étudiés par la sociologie puis peu à peu délaissés au profit d'autres catégories du salariat, méritent pourtant qu'on porte à nouveau le regard sur eux. D'une part parce que les transformations du monde industriel et les récurrentes fermetures d'usine impactent les manières d'être au travail. D'autre part, parce qu'ils ont longtemps été observés dans des bastions industriels. Or la communauté d'agglomération poitevine présente la spécificité d'être largement sous-industrialisée. La singularité des ouvriers poitevins mérite d'être interrogée, sous l'angle de l'appréciation du travail et sur le plan de l'action collective. La recherche a porté sur quatre usines localement implantées : Michelin, Sagem, Saft, Schneider Electric. L'usine étant à la fois lieu de travail et de socialisation, elle modèle et façonne les manières d'être et de faire de ses ouvriers de sorte qu'être ouvrier chez Michelin, ce n'est pas tout à fait la même chose que d'être ouvrier chez Schneider, à la Saft ou à la Sagem. A cette première ligne de partage s'en ajoutent d'autres : affaiblissement des collectifs à l'aune des transformations de l'organisation du travail, clivages générationnels, appréhensions différenciées du travail et de l'emploi. L'érosion des collectifs a pour conséquence de rendre improbables les mobilisations. Pourtant, elles émergent çà et là, prenant des formes différentes selon les contextes. Tout porte ainsi à croire que le contexte grandissant de précarisation peut contre toute attente faire renaître les mobilisations salariales à l'aune de configurations spécifiques. L'ouvrier poitevin est-il un ouvrier contestataire ou un salarié ordinaire ?The industrial workers - widely studied by sociology then gradually abandoned in favor of other categories of wage labor - deserve that we look at them again. On the one hand because the transformations of the industrial world and recurrent factory closings have an impact on the ways of being at work. On the other hand, because they have long been observed in industrial bastions. But the Poitiers conurbation has the specificity to be largely under- industrialized. The singularity of Poitiers workers deserves to be raised in terms of the appreciation of the work and in terms of collective action. The research focused on four factories locally based : Michelin, Sagem, Saft, Schneider Electric. The factory is a workplace which plays a part in socialization, she build ways of being and doing of his workers so being a worker at Michelin is not quite the same as to be a worker at Schneider, the Saft or Sagem. here are other dividing lines : weakening collective in terms of changes in the organization of work, generational cleavages, differentiated labor and employment concerns. The erosion of collective has the effect of making mobilizations improbable. Yet they emerge here and there, taking different forms in different contexts. And it really seems that the growing context of insecurity can against all expectations revive mobilizations in specific configurations. Is the worker of Poitiers a protest worker or an ordinary employee ?
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Hammond, Ralph. "The construction of physiotherapists' identities through collective memory work." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2013. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/a006339e-c660-4b59-a5f0-07efa1e962a2.
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This thesis examines the challenges for professional practice, socialisation, and identity in Physiotherapy. The government‘s modernisation agenda and society‘s increasing expectations of healthcare require physiotherapists to update their role, location, and identity. Physiotherapy has viewed identity as a fixed entity emphasizing coherence, continuity and distinctiveness. Socialisation has required the acquisition of a professional identity as one among several necessary assets‘ for novices. Yet how do physiotherapists come to be the physiotherapists they are?
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Scholar, H. F. "Qualifying social work education and the collective identity of social work in England." Thesis, University of Salford, 2017. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/44661/.
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This critical review examines seven peer-reviewed papers reporting research related to aspects of social work education in England, carried out against the backdrop of reforms following the work of the Social Work Task Force. The review takes a reflexive approach to the task of demonstrating the doctoral qualities and credentials of the portfolio, that is, the papers and commentary together, drawing on ideas from critical realism to support this process. It discusses the papers individually, considering their limitations; their originality and impact at the time they were produced; and the contribution they make as a body of work. Acknowledging the challenges of retrospectively connecting the papers, the review identifies links between them in their relevance to professional identity. It suggests that attention should be given to the notion of collective professional identity, conceived of as a shared occupational social identity, but including the capacity for action in the face of threats or challenges, and in contributing to the development of the profession. The review argues that qualifying social work education in England located in the universities but connecting with practice via placements, provides an important space for the shaping, maintenance and articulation of a collective identity for social work.
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Zou, Guangyu Yilmaz Levent. "Collective creativity in scientific communities." Auburn, Ala, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1747.
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Walden, Rachel R., Nakia J. Woodward, and Rick L. Wallace. "Reevaluating Point-of-Care Resources: Community Engagement in Difficult Collection Choices." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8702.
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Objectives: The objective of this study was to better understand the needs of users of an academic health sciences library.
Methods: A focus group was conducted using structured interviews. The groups interviewed consisted of three students each from Medicine, Pharmacy, and PhysicalTherapy. Interviewees were probed as to their experience with the library facility and the information training they received in their professional schools. Another focus group was conducted with six participants. Two faculty members each from Medicine, Pharmacy, and Physical Therapy were interviewed. Faculty were asked about the information training they provided students. The data was analyzed for trends using qualitative software.
Results: Better relationships were developed between library users and staff. Staff enjoyed learning the focus group methodology and thought it was a valuable tool. New insights were gained for current and future library operations.
Conclusions: A focus group is an excellent research tool for assessing the information needs of users, the degree to which the library is filling those needs, and learning of new needs
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Walden, Rachel R., Nakia J. Woodward, and Rick L. Wallace. "Reevaluating Point-of-Care Resources: Community Engagement in Difficult Collection Choices." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8676.
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Rising collection costs sometimes necessitate tough decisions regarding cancellation of popular products. In 2015–2016, the East Tennessee State University Medical Library subscribed to UpToDate and DynaMed Plus, both clinical point-of-care products, with the understanding that one product would be canceled at the fiscal year end. The librarian team undertook a year-long community engagement campaign to inform library users about the pending product cancellation decision. Ultimately, DynaMed Plus was selected and UpToDate was cancelled. The campaign generated user engagement with the decision making, along with perceived benefits including increased awareness of the library's budget constraints, increased discussion of scholarly publishing, and greater faculty/student knowledge of evaluating evidence-based products.
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Olson, Ted. "Recording Review of Woody Guthrie: Woody at 100, The Woody Guthrie Collection." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1160.
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Loren, Flaws Jesse. "The Fleshing Words." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2005. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/223.
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Gambarelli, François. "L'entrepreneuriat institutionnel collectif : action collective organisée en faveur d'un changement institutionnel : le cas de l'Espace partagé de santé publique, Nice." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014AIXM1099.
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Dans des contextes institutionnels complexes, la mise en oeuvre d'innovations nécessite la collaboration d'une grande variété d'acteurs. Cette recherche propose d'enrichir la notion émergente et très peu conceptualisée d'entrepreneuriat institutionnel collectif. Guidés par des ouvrages et des articles de référence, elle enrichit la grille de lecture de l'entrepreneuriat institutionnel en la transposant dans un contexte d'action collective, grâce aux notions de leadership pluriel et d'équipe de travail. Elle porte ainsi un regard sur les micros dynamiques de l'action entrepreneuriale, en ce qu'elles relèvent d'un caractère structuré et organisé, impliquant l'action de plusieurs individus agissant sous l'égide d'une seule entité, le collectif. Le terrain de la recherche a consisté en une recherche-action menée auprès d'un dispositif collectif (EPSP, Espace Partagé de Santé Publique) qui prône une approche novatrice en termes de nouvelle santé publique depuis sa création en 2007 dans le sud de la France. Les éléments relatifs à la structure de l'action entrepreneuriale permettent de saisir les différents aspects de la collaboration d'un ensemble d'acteurs. Le collectif, mêlant l'hétérogénéité des compétences et permettant la distribution des rôles sur différents niveaux de structuration, constitue une plateforme d'échanges et de mise en commun de tout un ensemble de ressources, partagées dans un effort collaboratif. Le pilotage de l'action entrepreneuriale s'opère à différents niveaux de structuration dévoilant notamment l'émergence de leaders (formels et informels), une vision commune travaillée et partagée favorisant l'accès aux ressources rares réparties dans le champIn complex fields, change requires cooperation from numerous dispersed actors with divergent interests. Guided by reference works and articles, we draw on complementary insights from institutional and plural leadership in team theories to enrich the emerging notion of Collective Institutional Entrepreneurship. In this sense, this work focuses on the micro mechanisms by which actors engage collectively in entrepreneurial actions and highlights the structural and organized character involving the action of many individuals acting under the same entity: the "Collective". Our research is based on a case study called the "Espace Partagé de Santé Publique", which has been established in 2005 to favor social innovations targeting disabled individuals. Collective Institutional Entrepreneurship takes many forms varying from the institutional work in witch actors are involved. It shows how collective institutional entrepreneurship relies on shared competencies and on the sharing of multiple resources derived from a diversity of actors working in a collaborative effort. This case study shows how experiments such as EPSP are conducive to the emergence of Collective Institutional Entrepreneurship involved in the design and implementation of a social innovation. The platform provides a large set of various resources, and institutional entrepreneurs can use its to establish a social innovation project. Regarding the structure and dynamics of Collective Institutional Entrepreneurship, the main results of this study invite future investigations to consider the richness of collective dynamics to apprehend complex institutional changes
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Tolley-Stokes, Rebecca. "Betwixt and Between Collaborative Online Spaces: Editing and Publishing a Collection of Essays." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5762.
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Kozinetz, Claudia A., Kathryn Royse, Sarah c. Graham, Xiaoying Yu, Jack Moye, Beatrice J. Selwyn, Michele R. Forman, and Chantal Caviness. "Consenting Postpartum Women for Use of Routinely Collected Biospecimens and/or Future Biospecimen Collection." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1494.
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The National Children’s Study (NCS) Harris County, Texas Study Center participated in the NCS Provider Based Sampling (PBS) substudy of the NCS Vanguard Phase pilot. As part of the hospital-based birth cohort component of the PBS substudy, we conducted a secondary data analysis to evaluate the proportion of postpartum women who consented to future biospecimen collection alone and to both future collection and use of residual birth biospecimens. In phase 1, 32 postpartum women at one hospital were asked to consent only to maternal future biospecimen collection. In phase 2, 40 other postpartum women from the same hospital were asked for an additional consent to use residual clinical biospecimens from the birth event that otherwise would be discarded, including cord blood and maternal blood and urine. Among 103 eligible women, a total of 72 participated. They were 28.3 ± 5.9 years old on average; 58 % were Hispanic; 63 % consented in English, and 37 % in Spanish; 39 % had some college education; 42 % were married; 60 % had an annual family income <$30,000; and 51 % were employed. In phase 1, 59 % consented to future biospecimen collection, and in phase 2, 95 % consented to both future collection and use of at least one residual birth biospecimen, with a difference between phases of 36 % [95 % CI 17–54 %]. Demographic characteristics did not differ among those who did and did not consent. Postpartum women were significantly more likely to grant consent for use of future and residual hospital-obtained biospecimens than future biospecimen collection alone.
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Carrick, Grady Thomas. "Data collection needs for work zone incidents." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0015618.
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Núñez-Coba, Milton. "A critical assessment of the theology of Camilo Torres in the light of Latin American theology : a theological paradigm for peace with justice for Colombia." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6557.
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The thesis aims to provide a critical assessment of Camilo Torres' concept of efficacious love in the light of a hermeneutics and ethics of liberation, to contribute theoretically to theological reflection upon the mission of the Protestant and Roman Catholic churches in Colombia, and generally in Latin America. It proposes the thesis that the theology of Camilo Torres, viewed from the perspective of a hermeneutics and an ethics of liberation, can be foundational for seeking, constructing, and sustaining peace with justice in a context of oppression and violence. Based on the theological analysis, the academic and spiritual motivation should respond to two fundamental questions in our academic inquiry: what foundation exists in Camilo Torres' theology for the construction of a just, peaceful, liberative society and to enable proximity to the excluded, victimized, and poor population in Colombia to be achieved? And how can we as Christians respond to the grace of God in living efficaciously the values of the Kingdom of God, in order to bring structural changes in Colombia? The implications of the answers to those questions would result in the possibility to execute an integrating theological proposal for peace with justice for the church in Colombia. In an interpretative mode, we consider critically the multidisciplinary interaction of some of the theological foundations of liberation theology. Our task consists in clarifying and constructing theological presuppositions for a dialectical examination of the historical and current situation in Colombia, viewed in the light of the internal problems and realities. Thus, it is our intention in order to attempt a significant interdisciplinary juncture, to examine and interpret such relevant concepts as efficacious love, faith with works, kenosis, hypostatic union, hermeneutics and ethics of liberation, social justice, personal and collective socio-political conversion, and a praxis of faith as the church's mission in response to the Colombian context of poverty and violence.
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Joel, Sörman, and Jacob Stjerngren. "Collective Housing From a Sustainable Perspective : An Investigative Work Within Architecture." Thesis, KTH, Byggteknik och design, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-295757.
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The purpose of this work has been to investigate how housing can be designed to be more sustainable and to design a sustainable collective housing based on the information obtained through this work. The concept of sustainability in this report has been divided into two main aspects: ecological and social sustainability. Based on literature studies, our own surveys as well as observations of other collective housing projects and sketch work, a housing has been designed that meets some of our predetermined goals. These goals mainly revolve around the design being: sustainable based on certain chosen aspects, practical to live in, and appealing to people by offering some comfort and respecting the residents’ need for privacy. The literature study includes information about collective housing, the history of collective housing in Sweden, existing implementations of collective housing, surveys, and requirements in BBR (Boverkets byggnadsregler). Subsequently, observations of other collective housing projects have been made to serve as a starting point of the design. The method includes the approach used to achieve the results. This includes the survey and the sketch work that led to the final design. The survey was sent out to and answered by one hundred people and the data received from the seventeen questions have served as a basis for the design of this project. The suggestions for functions that were received by the respondents have been of particular importance to inspire the choice of functions in the final design. Among other things, these led to the choice to include an outdoor gym. Two prototypes of collective housing were profiled during the sketch work, which were then abandoned in the process of designing something that better lived up to the goals of the project. The final design resulted in a building divided in three floors that includes six collective apartments with additional common rooms that are shared between the apartments. The site plan shows two of the designed collective housing buildings sharing a courtyard. In addition to the fact that it has been possible to establish that collective housing has certain implicit positive advantages, certain specific attributes which make a collective more sustainable. The basic benefits of collective housing include that it can reduce social isolation and bring benefits for the environment by reducing our collective consumption and use of space. Specific design choices that have proved to be more sustainable and have been included in this design are: Minimized living space per person and a high number of shared spaces, as well as features in the accommodation that encourage sharing. In order for the accommodation to also take into account people's preferences, the bathrooms have for example been made private. Some compromises have been made in the design of the accommodation in order to appeal to more people, who can hopefully become more open to this form of housing.Syftet med detta arbete har varit att undersöka hur boenden kan utformas för att bli mer hållbara, samt baserat därpå gestalta ett hållbart kollektivboende. Begreppet hållbarhet i denna rapport har delats in i två huvudaspekter: ekologisk och social hållbarhet. Utifrån litteraturstudier, egna enkätundersökningar, observationer av andra befintliga kollektiv och skissarbete, har ett boende gestaltats som uppfyller några av våra förutbestämda mål. Dessa mål är att boendet ska utformas för att bli mer hållbart utifrån de valda aspekterna och praktiskt att bo i, samt tilltalande för människor genom att erbjuda viss bekvämlighet och respektera de boendes behov av privatliv. I litteraturstudien omfattar information om kollektivbostäder, kollektivhusens historia i Sverige, existerande implementeringar av kollektiv och enkätundersökningar samt krav i BBR. Därefter har observationer av andra kollektivhus gjorts. Dessa har sedan fungerat som en utgångspunkt för gestaltningen i detta projekt. Vår metod innefattar en egen enkätundersökning samt det skissarbete som ledde till den slutgiltiga gestaltningen. Enkäten har skickats ut till och besvarats av 100 personer. Svaren vi erhöll på de 17 frågorna har fungerat som underlag för resonemang bakom våra beslut i gestaltningsarbetet. De egna förslagen på rum som respondenterna angivit har varit av särskild betydelse som inspiration för valen av rum i bostaden. Bland annat så medförde de valet att inkludera ett utegym. Två prototyper av kollektiv profilerades under skissarbetet vilka senare övergavs för att komma fram till något som bättre levde upp till målen med arbetet. Det slutliga resultatet gav ett kollektivboende i tre våningar som omfattar sex kollektivlägenheter med ytterligare gemensamma rum som delas mellan kollektivlägenheterna i byggnaden. Situationsplanen visar två av det gestaltade kollektivboenden på en delad innergård. Förutom att ha kunnat fastställa att den kollektiva boendeformen har vissa grundläggande positiva fördelar har vi kunnat bestämma vissa specifika attribut som gör ett kollektiv mer hållbart. De grundläggande fördelarna med kollektivt boende innefattar att boendeformen skapar relationer och minskar den sociala isoleringen i samhället och att den ger fördelar för miljön genom att minska människors konsumtion och ytanvändning. Specifika fördelar som har visat sig vara hållbara och som har inkluderats i denna gestaltning innefattar: Minimerad boyta per person och högt antal delade utrymmen samt funktioner i boendet som uppmuntrar till delande. För att boendet även ska ta hänsyn till människors preferenser så har till badrummen exempelvis gjorts privata. Vissa kompromisser har gjorts i boendets gestaltning för att tilltala fler människor, som förhoppningsvis kan bli mer öppna till boendeformen.
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Tolley, Rebecca. "Review of Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art: From the Collection of Fomento Cultural Baname." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2002. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5711.
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Rioche, Steven. "La représentation du personnel dans l'entreprise : Du regroupement à la fusion." Thesis, Paris 2, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA020064.
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Assurer l’efficacité du processus décisionnel tout en y associant les salariés : telle est l’équation que s’attache à résoudre le système français de représentation du personnel. Les réformes successives qu’il a connues traduisent bien des incertitudes quant au meilleur moyen d’y parvenir. Fruit d’une lente maturation, la création d’une instance unique, le comité social et économique, est de nature à affecter durablement les relations sociales. Parce qu’elle concentre des pouvoirs jusque-là disséminés, dans les entreprises d’au moins cinquante salariés, entre les délégués du personnel, le comité d’entreprise et le comité d’hygiène, de sécurité et des conditions de travail, cette instance nouvelle constitue a priori un vecteur de simplification des procédures de participation. Favorisant le dialogue, le « nouveau » droit de la représentation du personnel est susceptible d’entraîner de profonds bouleversements. Laissant une large place au contrat collectif, il comporte de multiples facettes. Une analyse systémique est possible, à condition d’identifier les traits saillants d’un déploiement susceptible de remettre en cause, lorsque l’instance est métamorphosée en conseil d’entreprise, la place accordée à la représentation syndicaleCombining an effective decision-making process with worker participation: such an issue is central in the French representation system. A series of reforms emphasized a state of doubt when it comes to the best way to resolve it. Resulting from a slow maturation, the creation of a single representative body, the economic and social council, shall significantly affect labour relations. Concentrating powers previously spread, within companies having at least fifty employees, among staff delegates, the works council and the health and safety committee, this new representative body shall at first glance be a medium of simplification. Stimulating cooperation, the “new” staff representation law will likely produce radical changes. Encouraging collective bargaining, it carries various aspects. A systemic analysis is feasible provided that the key points of its implementation are identified. If this body is transformed into a company council, the situation of the union representation may be challenged
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Kiesel, Claire Marie. "Perceptions of Collective Efficacy as a Mediator: An Examination of the Perceptions of Group Cohesion, Social Loafing, and Collective Efficacy." Xavier University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1534937246305126.
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Patsimas, Tatiana, Karen E. Schetzina, and Gayatri Bala Jaishankar. "Improving the Provision of Health Information and Support to Parents and Caregivers through Online Data Collection." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5070.
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As part of the ReadNPlay for a Bright Future initiative, an online survey was conducted to determine the preferences of parents and caregivers in regards to receiving health information and support and to identify opportunities to improve existing support groups in Northeast Tennessee. An anonymous online survey with ten closed-ended questions was designed on Survey Monkey and posted on social media sites of the ReadNPlay project, BABE Regional Breastfeeding Coalition, and local mothers’ support groups. After a two-week period, during which a reminder of the survey was posted, the results of the survey were summarized using Survey Monkey and Excel. A total of 39 surveys were collected. Of the 39 participants, all identified themselves as either a mother (97.44%) or other female caregiver (2.56%). Sixty three percent of mothers and caregivers wanted to receive support or health information through face-to-face support group meetings compared to 78.95% who wanted to receive the same information through social media and 68.42% who wanted to receive information via email. Less popular options for receiving health information and support include community events (60.53%), classes (44.74%), text messages (36.84%), childcare centers/schools (34.21%), handouts from healthcare providers (28.95%), and snail mail (21.05%). Forty six percent of respondents have attended support group meetings several times, 41.03% have never attended a support group meeting, and 15.38% have only attended a support group meeting once. Mothers and other caregivers identified the greatest barriers to participation in a support group as inconvenient timing (47.22%), lack of time (50%), inconvenient locations (47.22%), and lack of information about time and location (25%). Respondents were interested in receiving the following health and parenting information: learning/development (83.78%) breastfeeding (75.68%), active play (75.68%), behavior (72.97%), nutrition (64.86%), safety (45.95%), and prevention (40.54%). Mothers and other caregivers were interested in receiving the following types of support when they attend group meetings: socialization with other parents (81.58%), activities sponsored by community organization (78.95%), information about community resources (65.79%), parenting tips (63.16%), health information (44.74%), and food and supplies (34.21%).Additionally, when respondents were asked to identify preferred locations for support group meetings, the most popular option was a kid-friendly location (97.37%) followed by a community center (57.89%). The results obtained above are being used to improve existing support groups by providing parents and caregivers with child-friendly environments in which to socialize and receive a variety of parenting information, including information on learning and development.
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Loury, Sharon D. "Collecting and Disseminating Information About White, African American and Cherokee Nurses in Knoxville, TN 1900-1965." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8186.
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The experiences of minority nurses in Appalachia as across the country, from 1900-1964, varied by ethnicity. African American nurses were denied admission to "White" schools of nursing and were banned from employment in White hospitals. African American patients were admitted to small, inadequate "Negro" or "Colored" wards in Knoxville area hospital basements, which were often described a dark, cold and damp, if they were admitted at all. In response to these dire conditions, the first African American hospital in Appalachia, the Eliza B. Wallace Hospital was founded on the Knoxville College campus in 1907. The school added a nurse training program which was the first and for many years the only nurses training available to Appalachian African American women. The Helen Mae Lennon Hospital, a second hospital for African Americans was founded in the 1920s in Knoxville and also had a nurse training program.
During this era,the U S government had an "assimilation policy" of "Americanizing" or "civilizing" Native Americans. Eastern Band Cherokee Indian women could be and were admitted to White schools of nursing including Knoxville General Hospital's program. they could and did join the US Army Nurse corps in WWII.
The experiences of both groups will be examined along side the White nurses experiences.
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Dunnett, Susan. "The transformed consumer : collective practices and identity work in an emotional community." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2289.
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This interpretive consumer research study interrogates the idea that people turn to consumption as a means of self-determination. Proceeding from the understanding that the consumer enacts the development of their identity within the marketplace, it takes as its subject those in transition. Its context is a support group community of people brought together by an illness - multiple myeloma. Here, through a phenomenological approach designed to explore the lived experience of illness, the thesis discovers community to be the enabling context for the consumer’s negotiation of both selfhood and the market. Conclusions are drawn about the incremental, complex nature of identity work, and the collective practices that empower it. It is found that the marketplace requires significant mediation, but that the social resources of the community can equip the consumer to navigate its challenges. This transformation is manifested in the newly-diagnosed patient’s journey from dislocation and passivity to the empowered status of ‘skilled consumer’. The importance of the often-overlooked emotional texture of exchange within consumption communities is highlighted. In conclusion, it is offered that this study extends the concept of communities of practice into the field of consumption.
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Shepherdson, Robyn, Jennifer Funderburk, Nadiya Sunderji, Nadiya Sunderji, and Jodi Polaha. "Program Evaluation Intensive: Practical Training in Selecting Measures and Data Collection Methods to Obtain Useful Outcome Data." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6546.
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Do you need help determining appropriate measures and feasible data collection methods for program evaluations within integrated primary care? In this 3-hour preconference workshop, leaders from CFHA’s Research & Evaluation Committee and Families, Systems, & Health journal will provide practical training in conducting rigorous program evaluations. This workshop will help you identify appropriate measures to answer your key questions as well as data collection methods that balance quality and feasibility. This workshop is designed for those who are planning, conducting, or revising a program evaluation, as attendees will apply the material to their own personal projects within interactive small groups.
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Borgegård, Per, and Anders Bergh. "Outcome expectancy i arbetslivet : Predicerar work locus of control, work self efficacy och collective efficacy outcome expectancy?" Thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-7342.
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Bandura definierar (1997) outcome expectancy som individens skattning av sannolikheten att ett beteende ska leda till ett specifikt utfall. Utöver individens skattning av sitt eget beteendes följder (individual outcome expectancy), är hennes bedömning av sin grupps möjlighet att nå ett specifikt utfall (collective outcome expectancy) en del av begreppet (Riggs & Knight, 1994). Studien syftar till att undersöka huruvida arbetsrelaterad- self efficacy, locus of control och collective efficacy predicerar outcome expectancy. En enkätundersökning genomfördes med 102 deltagare från olika yrkesgrupper. Resultatet visade att arbetsrelaterad- self efficacy och locus of control samvarierade med individual outcome expectancy och att collective efficacy predicerade collective outcome expectancy. Dock var gruppstorleken av betydelse för prediktionen. Studiens hypoteser bekräftades av tidigare forskning.
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Darnell, Melissa Liberty. "Rethinking empowerment: Collective action as intervention with women." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3401.
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This study explores women's feelings of empowerment that result from participating in collective action events. The study contributes to the growing body of social work scholarship on empowerment practice by identifying and describing the specific variables that may contribute to or enhance empowerment feelings in women as a result of collective action participation.
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Alavi, Seyyed Babak Education Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "A multilevel study of collective efficacy, self-mental models, and collective cognition in university student group activities." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Education, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/33242.
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The main goal of this study was to identify some determinants of collective efficacy in small groups. A multilevel approach was used to posit hypotheses and research questions relating individual and shared beliefs of collective efficacy to collective cognition activities, task interdependence, self-efficacy for group work, and collective orientation. A two-phase longitudinal design was employed. The sample comprised 270 university students, enrolled in seven courses and involved in 86 work groups in both phases of the study. All groups were required to perform interdependent academic tasks. The results of multiple regression analysis of aggregated variables provided some evidence that the more group members perceived themselves to be interdependent in the early stages of group work and assigned their tasks interdependently during group processes, the more likely they developed high collective efficacy in the final stages of group work. Collective efficacy was also related to the group average of self-efficacy for group work when task interdependence was high. Multilevel analysis was also used. These results showed that variation at the individual level was considerable, and there was significant but relatively little variation at the group level, with small effect sizes, for a few variables including collective efficacy. Structural equation modelling was used to confirm the theoretical framework at the individual level after accounting for group level variation. The results suggested that integration and constructive evaluation of ideas during group processes and self-efficacy for group work may have been determinants of collective efficacy at the individual level. Moreover, collective efficacy at the individual level was related to an interdependent perception of self in relation to other group members. The results suggest that helping group members learn how to evaluate and integrate each other???s ideas during group activities, and perceive themselves to be interdependent may enhance group capabilities for performing tasks. In addition, improving students??? self-efficacy for group work was identified as a key factor, as it may enhance a sense of interdependence among group members, improve the extent to which group members participate in integrating and evaluating ideas, and increase the whole group???s capabilities for performing tasks.
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Hudson, Tina M., and Robert G. McKenzie. "Evaluating the Use of RTI to Identify SLD: A Survey of State Policy, Procedures, Data Collection, and Administrator Perceptions." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3994.
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As it has become a prominent feature in the identification of students with specific learning disabilities (SLD), response to intervention (RTI) has generated significant interest and, in some respects, controversy regarding assessment and attendant procedures. In the present study, the authors surveyed state directors of special education (n = 31) to examine (a) the degree to which RTI policies and recommended practices are transmitted between state and local agencies, including those related to referrals of low achieving (i.e., “non-responsive”) students for a comprehensive evaluation; (b) communication with parents; and (c) their perceptions of the impact of RTI insofar as SLD identification is concerned. Results reflect disparities among many states and their districts in terms of the procedures used, data collected, and whether the effectiveness of RTI is evaluated. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.
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Quillerou-Grivot, Edwige. "Fonction psychologique et sociale du collectif pour la santé au travail : le cas de l’activité d’opérateurs de montage automobile." Thesis, Paris, CNAM, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011CNAM0792/document.
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Cette thèse s’intéresse au travail collectif d’opérateurs de montage travaillant en « îlot de production » et à la construction de la santé dans ce contexte de transformations du monde ouvrier. Lors d’une intervention dans une entreprise de logistique, dernier maillon de la chaîne de sous-traitance de l’industrie automobile, nous avons proposé d’installer un cadre clinique de l’activité en psychologie du travail. Ainsi, les opérateurs volontaires ont pu découvrir combien les expériences des autres - même ceux croisés ponctuellement de par le turn-over des intérimaires - et les débats autour des façons de faire des collègues, pouvaient devenir une ressource pour leur propre travail. Malgré la difficulté de maintenir un travail de co-analyse avec un fort turn-over, les opérateurs ont aussi pris conscience de la fonction sociale de leur collectif au sein de l’entreprise, lors du dernier comité de pilotage de notre intervention. Ce double processus psychologique et social de la fonction du collectif chez les opérateurs leur permet de créer de nouvelles manières de transformer le travail, participant ainsi au développement de leur santéThis thesis speaks about collective work of the operators of assembly in modular manufacturing unit and health building in this context of industrial work transformations. During an intervention in a company of car logistics, the last link of the chain of subcontracting at car industry, we proposed them to construct a clinical frame of activity in work psychology. So, volunteers’ operators were able to discover how much the experiences of the others - even those crossed punctually due to the turnover of the temporary workers - and the debates around the manners to make the other colleagues could become a resource for their own work. In spite of the difficulty to maintain a work of co-analysis with temporary operators, the operators could also became aware of their collective social function, during the last steering committee of our intervention. This double psychological and social process of the collective function at the operators allows creating new ways to transform their work, so participating in the development of their health
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Lyons, Reneé C., and Deborah Parrott. "The Printz is Great, but Don’t Forget the Alex! Collection Development and Reading Promotion for Upper-Level High School Students." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2380.
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Eleventh and twelfth grade high school students are ready to meet the world; or are they? If your library collects and promotes award-winning ALEX award-winners, they are! Visit this session to discover ALEX titles conducive to the needs and interests of an age group ready to tackle the big, bad world, while also receiving sound motivational, get-the-book-in-the-hand strategies. (S2-E161)
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Reid, Katie. "Restless collection : Ivan Vladislavić and South African literary culture." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/71746/.
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Gustafsson, Linder Rebecca, and Paulina Lindqvist. "Effects on traffic work during demand-based collection of waste compared with collection at fixed intervals." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Kommunikations- och transportsystem, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-177543.
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Avfallshämtningen är ett komplext problem som ställer mängder av logistiska krav och bör tillgodose kundens behov om att få sina sopor upphämtade och tömda i rätt tid. Samtidigt bör onödigt trafikarbete minskas för att uppnå en mer hållbar avfallshämtning. Nodra AB sköter avfallshämtningen av det kommunala avfallet i Norrköpings kommun. I dagsläget finns olika abonnemang för Nodra ABs kunder att välja på där avfallet hämtas enligt schemalagda rutter med fasta intervall. Nodra AB vet dock att behovet hos kunderna kan skilja sig från det standardiserade behovet, vilket riskerar att leda till att halvtomma eller överfulla kärl töms. För att se om denna risk går att minimera driver Nodra AB nu ett projekt, Behovsbaserad insamling, där syftet är att utreda om Norrköpings kommun ska gå mot en mer behovsbaserad avfallshämtning. Detta examensarbete avsåg att analysera effekterna på trafikarbetet av att gå från traditionell avfallshämtning med fasta intervall till en behovsbaserad avfallshämtning. Tidsåtgången och koldioxidutsläppen för trafikarbetet ämnades också att analyseras. Målet med examensarbetet var att det skulle fungera som ett komplement till Nodra ABs projektarbete och deras beslutsunderlag inför ett eventuellt införande av behovsbaserad avfallshämtning från fritidshus. Examensarbetet har innefattat både kvalitativa och kvantitativa metoder. En litteraturstudie har genomförts i syfte att få mer kunskap gällande transportplanering och logistiken kring avfallshämtning samt de miljömässiga effekterna transporter ger upphov till idag. Information kring hur Nodra AB arbetar i nuläget har samlats in i form av en intervju med berörd projektledare samt utredningsingenjör och även en observation för att skapa en bättre förståelse. Analysen i examensarbetet grundades på två olika scenarier för en behovsbaserad avfallshämtning. Båda utgick ifrån att ordinarie rutter och intervall bibehölls, men att i det första scenariot endast tömma de kärl som ställts fram vid hämtstället och i det andra scenariot endast tömma de kärl där kunden beställt hämtning via en app. Analysen utgick från att behovet bland fritidshus minskade med 25% under veckorna 2433 och 50% under veckorna 1923 samt 34 38. Inför analysen har data från Nodra AB tillhandahållits, i syfte att kunna beräkna en förändring i körlistorna. För att få fram förändringen i körtid och körsträcka har programvaran ArcMap använts. Resultatet har sedan sammanställts med övriga data i en beräkningsmodell i Microsoft Excel. Resultatet visade på att en behovsbaserad avfallshämtning med minskat behov ger en minskad körsträcka, som leder till tidsbesparingar samt ett minskat koldioxidutsläpp. Resultatet visar dock inte vilka effekter ett ökat behov ger och de finns även övriga aspekter som inte tagits med i detta arbete, som kan påverka trafikarbetet.Examensarbetet är utfört vid Institutionen för teknik och naturvetenskap (ITN) vid Tekniska fakulteten, Linköpings universitet
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Bond, Patrick George. "Finding words : a collection of poems with a critical preface." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/45144/.
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Finding Words: A Collection of Poems with a Critical Preface is a collection of fifty-five poems preceded by an introductory essay. The poems were all written in the period 2005 – 2011. The critical preface is in four chapters. The first is in the form of a recollection of the circumstances of poetry in my early life. The second engages with the critical thinking of Geoffrey Hill. The third responds to an exemplary poem of John Clare's The Midsummer Cushion period. The fourth introduces and places in context the poems of the collection, and experience of reading poetry aloud. Chapter One is a form of autobiography. It retrieves half-submerged fragments of the story of a British Colonial child in the 1950s, seeking out the texture and feel of various discontinuities including the move to the UK from Mauritius, the long-term illness and early death of my father, different languages in early childhood, Catholicism with a southern-hemisphere emphasis, and the growth of an intense dedication to poetry from the age of eleven. Chapter Two engages at length with the dilemma of an individual poetics which expresses itself in the form, ‘How do I understand the conversion of my experiencing into the experiencing of words?' My practice of poetry is uncovered as both unconscious and sui generis. The root experience of finding words and forming poems is illuminated by engagement with the ideas of Geoffrey Hill, particularly the moral imagination as the formal creative faculty, words regarded as pledges and not signs, language that both redeems and betrays the intentions of the poet, and the analysis of grammar to reveal ethical processes. The ideas of phenomenologist, David Abram, are used to illuminate my consistent experience of wonder-in-nature, and processes of sensation and perception as part of the writing of poetry. The discussion returns to Hill at the point of a divergence from Abram on the nature of the imagination, and explores the implications of Hill's rigorous criteria on solipsism, the ambivalent power of words, and the frailty of human attempts at communication. It ends with a brief discussion on therapeutic writing, and acknowledgement of Hill's proposition of a theology of language as a means of grace. Chapter Three describes a poet, John Clare, with whom I have always had a powerful relationship, even though he is not a direct influence on the style of my poems. The chapter looks briefly at John Clare's unusual literary status, to illuminate aspects of his standing as a poet. It enlists the help of an essay by the philologist, Professor Barbara M. H. Strang, who examines the linguistic characteristics of Clare's poetry. It is argued that Clare's poetry does not need punctuation or other editorial improvements. The semantic insights of Geoffrey Hill on poetry are applied to one of the major poems of the Midsummer Cushion, namely Shadows of Taste. Hill's observations on ‘temper' and ‘taste' are linked to Clare via the hymns of the Wesleyan Methodists; and the elements of Clare's linguistic mimesis of nature are elucidated, particularly his repeated use of the word ‘joy'. Chapter Four introduces the fifty-five poems, and discusses the processes of writing, revising, selecting and grouping. Major poetic influences are briefly examined, from the Gawain-poet to Basil Bunting, as well as the main features of the poems themselves, in particular the use of an alliterative pulse modelled on the poets of the fourteenth century. The chapter includes a brief reference to reading poetry aloud in small community groups, and the experience of reading John Clare's poems outdoors in forests and fields. The thesis is an attempt to define a practice of writing poetry which has been largely instinctive and consciously personal. An attempt is made to sketch the fine boundary between a solipsistic self-expression, and the technical demands of a craft which has its roots in a poetic and cultural tradition of at least eight centuries.
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Thierauf, Andrew. "Percussion and Max: a collection of short works for solo percussion and live electronics." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1774.
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The combination of solo percussion with live electronics is one of the newest genres of music today. An outgrowth of the instrument and fixed media genre, live electronic music combines a musician on stage performing with a computer or other technology performing real-time processes. This document is a collection of five works scored for percussion and the computer program Max intended for the collegiate level. In addition, there are explanations and schematics of the patches to help the performer learn how to use Max. This document could serve as supplemental material for an undergraduate percussion curriculum to help students gain experience performing with live electronics.
Most students in university music departments are not exposed to technology unless they seek it out themselves. This may cause many student instrumentalists to be hesitant to play works with technology. However, as performing with electronics becomes more common, music students without this experience are at a disadvantage. Basic knowledge of audio equipment, having experience using a microphone, sound recording, and other technical know-how is essential to becoming a successful performer in a contemporary setting. Being able to perform with electronics creates new opportunities for repertoire, collaboration, and performance.
Many universities are starting new programs dedicated to interdisciplinary studies such as digital humanities. These collaborative efforts bring together musicians, dancers, writers, visual artists, computer scientists, and others to create new work. Music students who have some background in performing and working with electronics could be a part of these collaborative efforts and help produce compelling, original work.