Tag: Influences

Free Download Transnational Influences on Values and Practices in Nordic Educational Leadership: Is there a Nordic Model? By Lejf Moos (auth.), Lejf Moos (eds.)
2013 | 228 Pages | ISBN: 9400762259 | PDF | 2 MB
This book explores to what extent transnational influences change national/local values and practices in the Nordic educational systems. It provides country cases and thematic chapters that give nuanced insights into the influence of transnational agencies on national governance and discourses. It describes how national discourses and regulation influences school leadership values, culture and practice, in competition with traditional values. The transnational and global discourse on educational leadership is mostly formed according to Anglo-American thinking and tradition. Pivotal foundations of this discourse are strong hierarchical societies/class societies with liberal democracies, and clearly streamed education systems. The Nordic discourse, however, builds on a more equal society and flat hierarchies with participatory democracy, and on comprehensive schooling with strong local community roots. Leadership thinking and practices are formed by the culture and context they are part of: they are primarily shaped by the national/local values, traditions and practices, and only partially shaped by politics, discourses and literature. Due to the fact that a great deal of the literature that is being used in the Nordic contexts is of Anglo-American origin and many of the research projects have Anglo-American foundations, it is difficult to distinguish the sources for leadership thinking and practice. This book distinguishes the Nordic from the Anglo-American thinking and presents important findings and arguments for leadership practitioners inside as well as outside the Nordic countries.​

Free Download Benoit Castelnerac, "Foreign Influences: The Circulation of Knowledge in Antiquity "
English | ISBN: 2503598951 | 2024 | 304 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The essays collected in this volume focus on the Ancient Greeks’ perception of foreigners and of foreign lands as potential sources of knowledge. They aim at exploring the hypothesis that the most adventurous intellectuals saw foreign lands and foreigners as repositories of knowledge that the Greeks s?f?? had to engage with, in the hope of bringing back home valuables in the form of new ideas. It is a common place to state that the "Greeks" displayed xenophobia, which is probably best exemplified in the binary and ethnocentric division of humanity in two groups: the Greek world (i.e., the hellenophones) and the others, the Barbarians – those who speak foreign languages. This attitude of insularism and defiance, however, did not hinder the curiosity of Greek and Roman societies towards strangers. Lycurgus, Pythagoras, Democritus, etc.: there is a long list of sages and philosophers who travelled around the world for a significant period of time. The Greeks had a rich and varied relationship with foreign lands and people, which made possible a real circulation of knowledge throughout the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic times; this is also true of the Roman Empire. Each of the articles included in this collective work explore one aspect of the "stranger" as a possible source of knowledge, with contributions mostly focused on Plato, Xenophon, Democritus, Aristotle, Diogenes, Cicero and Galen.

Free Download Understanding the Digital Revolution and Its Influences
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819749387 | 211 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2.4 MB
Guided by the question of why digital technology has a transformative impact, this book systematically explains the root causes of the transformative impact, reexamines the history of human development and the basic point of social division of labor, and further conducts a new deconstruction and elaboration of the logic and development trend of the digital technology impact. The book also analyzes and explains the latest commercial phenomena and future trends associated with the development of digital technology that have emerged. This book creatively points out the necessity and importance of introducing a decision cost analysis into the behavioral choices of economic agents, and puts forward that information processing efficiency is a new standard for measuring the competitive advantage of individuals and economic organizations in the digital era, thus reinterprets the logic of human-economic development. This book has a unique research perspective, includes innovative research and a unified analytic framework, and has achieved an organic and deep integration of the logic of technological evolution and the logic of economic operation, forming many fresh and profound views and insights.

Free Download Organizational Influences & Project Management Lifecycle
Published 7/2024
Created by YouAccel Training
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 146 Lectures ( 16h 22m ) | Size: 4.57 GB

Free Download Ellen K. Levy, "D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture: From Forces to Forms "
English | ISBN: 1350191116 | 2021 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 9 MB + 15 MB
Scottish zoologist D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s visionary ideas in On Growth and Form continue to evolve a century after its publication, aligning it with current developments in art and science. Practitioners, theorists, and historians from art, science, and design reflect on his ongoing influence. Overall, the anthology links evolutionary theory to form generation in both scientific and cultural domains. It offers a close look at the ways cells, organisms, and rules become generative in fields often otherwise disconnected.

Free Download Byzantium and British Heritage: Byzantine influences on the Arts and Crafts Movement
by Amalia G. Kakissis
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0815359748 | 322 Pages | True ePUB | 53 MB

Free Download A. L. Macfie, "Eastern Influences on Western Philosophy: A Reader"
English | ISBN: 0748617418 | 2003 | 360 pages | PDF | 41 MB
The influence of East on West – of Eastern ideas on Western thought – has become an increasingly vexed issue in recent times. Opinion is divided between two main schools: those who believe that Oriental ideas have exercised a considerable influence on Western thought, and those who, for a variety of reasons, believe that such influence has remained negligible.In this Reader A. L. Macfie suggests that the reality lies somewhere between these two extremes, and that the interest taken by Western thinkers in Eastern thought in the modern period has moved from one of passing interest, through serious attention, to some level of assimilation and acceptance.