This is a work for people who believe in the power of simplicity. Flora Alves redefines Learning Design and demystifies it by translating theory into practice visually, collaboratively, and consistently. In this methodology, the design is centred on the "human being", for whom a learning solution is developed, and not only in the tasks that they have to perform. The process gains agility as it uncovers essential practices to promote the learning of the adult of today, who surrounded by stimuli and technology, needs to be involved in their learning process. By defining Learning Design as the systematized, chained and intentional organization of content, using appropriate learning methodologies for each type of knowledge, in order to stimulate and facilitate the learning process in different contexts, as well as to promote change of behaviour in relation to performance, attitudes and behaviours, the Trahentem® Methodology for Learning Design using Canvas is the tool that will guide you in the practice of that process, in a way that is aligned with the organizational objectives to be impacted, guaranteeing the transfer of learning into practice.
This is a work for people who believe in the power of simplicity. Flora Alves redefines Learning Design and demystifies it by translating theory into practice visually, collaboratively, and consistently. In this methodology, the design is centred on the "human being", for whom a learning solution is developed, and not only in the tasks that they have to perform. The process gains agility as it uncovers essential practices to promote the learning of the adult of today, who surrounded by stimuli and technology, needs to be involved in their learning process. By defining Learning Design as the systematized, chained and intentional organization of content, using appropriate learning methodologies for each type of knowledge, in order to stimulate and facilitate the learning process in different contexts, as well as to promote change of behaviour in relation to performance, attitudes and behaviours, the Trahentem® Methodology for Learning Design using Canvas is the tool that will guide you in the practice of that process, in a way that is aligned with the organizational objectives to be impacted, guaranteeing the transfer of learning into practice.
Italy’s 1948 constitution states that Italy is a ‘republic founded upon work’. This book explores women’s labour following World War Two and Italy’s new republic. It focuses its enquiry on three sectors: agriculture (rice weeders), fashion (seamstresses), and religious work (nuns). It studies original oral history interviews and compares women’s own words with their representation in film. In Italy, both war and national reconstruction have typically been framed as masculine undertakings. This book shifts that frame to investigate the labour that Italian women were doing at this critical time of political, social, and ideological change. By examining (filmed) oral history interviews and postwar fiction films, the book brings a vivid, engaging, and cross-disciplinary account of women’s work. Historical studies of Italian women’s work in this period are scarce, short, and almost never in English; this work addresses that critical gap. Film histories almost invariably study women for their beauty and on-screen sexuality; this work critiques and moves beyond this bias. Oral history studies aim to give voice to the under-represented; this book shares that goal. The book is interested in how women’s work was viewed by society and by women workers themselves. Critical analysis of films produced between 1945 and 1965 reveals tensions around women workers’ financial, sexual, intellectual, and spatial independence. Oral histories reveal little-discussed professions and women’s experiences in the workplace. These interviews expose the profound difference work made to women’s lives, and the joys and dilemmas of this difference.
This is an extraordinarily imaginative attempt to analyze the relations between literature and technique in Brazil from the 1880s to the 1920s. The author suggests that in these relations we can see more clearly the shape of a period that is otherwise usually defined from a literary perspective as pre- or post- something or other, rather than in terms of its own characteristics. One such characteristic is the intense interaction with the new technologies then arising in Brazil, the beginning of the professionalization of writers, and a revision of the concept of literature, redefined as technique. The authors chief concern is to determine what is distinctive about the literary production of the period. Rather than focusing on literatures relations with visual art, with a rising social class, or with the sociopolitical divisions within the educated classes of Brazilian society, the author examines the crônica (a kind of journalistic essay), poetry, and fiction of these decades in terms of their encounter with a burgeoning technological and industrial landscape. This encounter is examined from two perspectives. The first is explicit representation: the portrayal in Brazilian literature of modern artifacts, new means of transformation and communication, and the newborn industries of advertising and commercial publication. The second perspective examines how these close contacts with the technological world came to shape cultural productionthat is, not how literature represents technique, but how literary technique changed as it incorporated procedures characteristic of photography, film, and poster art. This transformation was consistent and concurrent with significant changes taking place in the perceptions and sensibilities of the population of major Brazilian cities, a population increasingly attuned to images, the instant, and technology as all-powerful mediators of the urban landscape, time, and a subjectivity constantly under the threat of extinction.
Why Architects Matter examines the key role of research- led, ethical architects in promoting wellbeing, sustainability and innovation. It argues that the profession needs to be clear about what it knows and the value of what it knows if it is to work successfully with others. Without this clarity, the marginalization of architects from the production of the built environment will continue, preventing clients, businesses and society from getting the buildings that they need. The book offers a strategy for the development of a twenty-first-century knowledge-led built environment, including tools to help evidence, develop and communicate that value to those outside the field. Knowing how to demonstrate the impact and value of their work will strengthen practitioners’ ability to pitch for work and access new funding streams. This is particularly important at a time of global economic downturn, with ever greater competition for contracts and funds driving down fees and making it imperative to prove value at every level. Why Architects Matter straddles the spheres of ‘Practice Management and Law’, ‘History and Theory’, ‘Design’, ‘Housing’, ‘Sustainability’, ‘Health’, ‘Marketing’ and ‘Advice for Clients’, bringing them into an accessible whole. The book will therefore be of interest to professional architects, architecture students and anyone with an interest in our built environment and the role of professionals within it.
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