Academic tribes and territories : intellectual enquiry and the cultures of disciplines / Tony Becher.-Bristol : The Society for Research into Higher Education : Open Universtiy Press, 1989. How do academics perceive themselves and colleagues in their own disciplines, and how do they rate those in other subjects? How closely related are their intellectual tasks and their ways of organizing their professional lives? What are the interconnections between academic cultures and the nature of disciplines? Academic Tribes and Territories maps academic knowledge and explores the diverse characteristics of those who inhabit and cultivate it. This second edition provides a thorough update to Tony Becher's classic text, first published in 1989, and incorporates research findings and new theoretical perspectives. Fundamental changes in the nature of higher education and in the academic's role are reviewed and their significance for academic cultures is assessed. This second edition successfully renews a classic in the field of higher education. Solicitar por: 378.1 BECa The birth and death of meaning : an interdisciplinary perspective on the problem of man / Ernest Becker.-New York : The Free Press, 1971 Becker illustrates the way in which we deceive ourselves and deliberately confuse the cultural game with underlying material reality. He offers four levels of possible solution, the first of which he warns can lead to narcissism and mandess, the second and third being religious in an abstract and metaphysical way. Becker is not, like so many sociologists, drunk on his own lucidity or on a power trip: he is telling us to relax, because the question of relevance is very much up in the air. Authenticity is his message. I would recommend this book as it is easily one of the most important philosophical awakenings that are on the bookshelf, but I would qualify that statement by also recommending it be taken in small doses. Solicitar por: 001.4 BECb Change by design : how design thinking transforms organizations and inspires innovation / Tim Brown, Barry Katz.-- New York : Harper Collins Publishers, 2009. This book introduces design thinking, the collaborative process by which the designer’s sensibilities and methods are employed to match people’s needs with what is technically feasible and a viable business strategy. In short, design thinking converts need into demand. It’s a human-centered approach to problem solving that helps people and organizations become more innovative and creative. Design thinking is not just applicable to so-called creative industries or people who work in the design field. It’s an approach that has been used by organizations such as Kaiser Permanente to increase the quality of patient care by re-examining the ways that their nurses manage shift change or Kraft to rethink supply chain management. This book is for creative business leaders who seek to infuse design thinking into every level of an organization, product, or service to drive new alternatives for business and society. Solicitar por: 658 BROc Disability studies : an interdisciplinary introduction / Dan Goodley.-- London : Sage, 2011 This introduction to disability studies represents a clear, engaging and consistently thought-provoking study of the field. The book discusses the global nature of disability studies and disability politics, introduces key debates in the field and represents the intersections of disability studies with feminist, class, queer and postcolonial analyses.The book has a clear and coherent format which matches the interdisciplinary framework of disability studies - including chapters on sociology, critical psychology, discourse analysis, psychoanalysis and education. Solicitar por: 001.4 GOOd Essentials of transdisciplinary research : using problem centered methodologies / Patricia Leavy.-Walnut Creek : Left coast press, 2011 Transdisciplinary research is issue-driven, addressing contemporary social questions from a range of critical theoretical perspectives unhampered by the theoretical and methodological restrictions of traditional disciplinary boundaries. In this brief, informative guide, Patricia Leavy shows how a transdisciplinary approach can produce more effective results for researchers hoping to ameliorate social problems and foster social justice. Leavy demonstrates the value of transdisciplinary approaches in mixed methods design, and how trans approaches actually help fulfill the promises and goals of mixed methods research. She explains its relationship to multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary research and its value in community-based and arts-based research projects. Solicitar por: 001.42 LEAc Fab : the coming revolution on your desktop form personal computers to personal fabrication / Neil Gershenfeld. -- New York : Basic Books, 2005 In FAB, Gershenfeld describes how personal fabrication is possible today, and how it is meeting local needs with locally developed solutions. He and his colleagues have created “fab labs” around the world, which, in his words, can be interpreted to mean “a lab for fabrication, or simply a fabulous laboratory.” Using the machines in one of these labs, children in inner-city Boston have made saleable jewelry from scrap material. Villagers in India used their lab to develop devices for monitoring food safety and agricultural engine efficiency. Herders in the Lyngen Alps of northern Norway are developing wireless networks and animal tags so that their data can be as nomadic as their animals. And students at MIT have made everything from a defensive dress that protects its wearer’s personal space to an alarm clock that must be wrestled into silence. Solicitar por: 004.2 GARf Great interdisciplinary ideas : a reader for writers / William Vesterman.-- New York : Pearson & Longman, 2008 This book provides an outstanding collection of essays by major thinkers exploring great ideas in different fields of study. It is part of Longman's Penguin Academics Series of low-cost, highquality offerings intended for use in introductory college courses. This reader introduces students to the central issues of modern life–such as human rights, gender, economics, and utopias and dystopias–through an exploration of major ideas at work through time within and among different disciplines. The book’s 58 selections have been chosen both for the high quality and importance of their thought and for their usefulness in stimulating critical reading and analytic and argumentative writing. Solicitar por: 001.2 VESg An interdisciplinary theory of activity / Andy Blunden.-- Chicago : Haymarket Books, 2010 Andy Blunden presents an immanent critique of CulturalHistorical Activity Theory, the current of psychology originating from Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934). Tracing the roots of this theory from Goethe, Hegel and Marx, the author draws out the principles with which Vygotsky developed a theory of the mind in which the individual and their social situation form a single Gestalt, transcending the problems of mind-body dualism. Blunden follows the efforts of later members of the School to resolve outstanding problems in Vygotsky’s work. This includes a critical appropriation of Leontyev’s Activity Theory and Michael Cole’s cross-cultural research on the role of context in learning. The outcome is a concept of activity which transcends the division between individual and social domains in human sciences. Solicitar por: 001.2 BLUa Knowledge democracy : consequences for science, politics and media / editor Roeland J in’t Veld.-- New York : Springer, 2010. This book is an emerging concept that addresses the relationships between knowledge production and dissemination, as well as the functions of the media and democratic institutions. Although democracy has been the most successful concept of governance for societies for the last two centuries, representative democracy, which became the hallmark of advanced nation-states, seems to be in decline. Media politics is an important factor in the downfall of the original meaning of representation, yet more direct forms of democracyhave not yet found an institutional embedding. Further, the Internet has also drastically changed the rules of the game, and a better educated public has broad access to information, selects for itself which types to examine, and ignores media filters. This book outlines the challenges entailed in pursuing a vital. Solicitar por: 321 KNO The opposable mind : winning through integrative thinking / Roger L Martin. -- Boston : Harvard Business Press, 2009. Though following best practice can help in some ways, it also poses a danger: By emulating what a great leader did in a particular situation, you'll likely be terribly disappointed with your own results. Why? Your situation is different. Instead of focusing on what exceptional leaders do, we need to understand and emulate how they think. Successful businesspeople engage in what Martin calls integrative thinking creatively resolving the tension in opposing models by forming entirely new and superior ones. Drawing on stories of leaders as diverse as AG Lafley of Procter & Gamble, Meg Whitman of eBay, Victoria Hale of the Institute for One World Health, and Nandan Nilekani of Infosys, Martin shows how integrative thinkers are relentlessly diagnosing and synthesizing by asking probing questions including. What are the causal relationships at work here? and What are the implied trade-offs? Solicitar por: 658.4 MARo Reliable knowledge : an exploration of the grounds for belief in science / John Ziman.-New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 Why believe in the findings of science? John Ziman argues that scientific knowledge is not uniformly reliable, but rather like a map representing a country we cannot visit. He shows how science has many elements, including alongside its experiments and formulae the language and logic, patterns and preconceptions, facts and fantasies used to illustrate and express its findings. These elements are variously combined by scientists in their explanations of the material world as it lies outside our everyday experience. John Ziman's book offers at once a valuably clear account and a radically challenging investigation of the credibility of scientific knowledge, searching widely across a range of disciplines for evidence about the perceptions, paradigms and analogies on which all our understanding depends. Solicitar por: 507.2 ZIMr A space for science : the development of the scientific community in Brazil / Simon Schwartzman.-Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991. The book focuses on the development of natural sciences in Brazil from the nineteenth century, with emphasis on the cultural, institutional, and social contexts that facilitated or hindered their growth and institutionalization, and offers an analysis of their current predicaments. It also provides an account of the importance to Brazil of foreign-trained scientists and foreign models of research and higher education. This new English version contains background information on Brazilian society and politics, a new introduction, and two new chapters on most recent developments. These changes, along with substantial revisions to the text, make this a new book even for the Brazilian reader. Solicitar por: 507.2 SCHs Teaching and learning about science and society / John Ziman.-- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008. Science, Technology, and Society' - STS - has become a major educational theme. There are many courses in schools, universities and other institutions, dealing with all sorts of topics such as the history of science, energy policy, industrial innovation, technology assessment, Third World development, scientific method, and so on. But what is this subject really about? Why should it be taught? Who should study it? What should they learn? How should the subject be approached? Who should teach it? These questions are being asked by both teachers and students in many fields of science, engineering, medicine, social studies, and the humanities. Solicitar por: 370.78 ZIMt Technics and time : the fault of epimetheus / Bernard Stiegler.-- California : Stanford University Press, 1998. What is a technical object? At the beginning of Western philosophy, Aristotle contrasted beings formed by nature, which had within themselves a beginning of movement and rest, and man-made objects, which did not have the source of their own production within themselves. This book, the first of three volumes, revises the Aristotelian argument and develops an innovative assessment whereby the technical object can be seen as having an essential, distinct temporality and dynamics of its own. Working his way through the history of the Aristotelian assessment of technics, the author engages the ideas of a wide range of thinkers—Rousseau, Husserl, and Heidegger, the paleo-ontologist Leroi-Gourhan, the anthropologists Vernant and Detienne, the sociologists Weber and Habermas, and the systems analysts Maturana and Varela. Solicitar por: 190 STIt Technics and time : disorientation / Bernard Stiegler.-California : Stanford University Press, 2009. The french philosopher Bernard Stiegler engages in a close dialogue with Husserl, Derrida, and other philosophers who have devoted their energies to technics, such as Heidegger and Simondon.The author's broad intent is to respond to Western philosophy's historical exclusion of technics and techniques from its metaphysical questionings, and in so doing to rescue critical and philosophical thinking. For many years, Stiegler has explored the origins and philosophical, ethical, and political stakes of a global process he calls "the industrial temporalization of consciousness." Here, demonstrating that technology—including alphabetical writing—is memory, he argues that through new technologies of retention and inscription we have come to live in a world where time devours space, a disoriented world in which we have lost our bearings. Solicitar por: 190 STIt Technics and time : cinematic time and the question of Malaise / Bernard Stiegler.-- California : Stanford University Press, 2011 In the first two volumes of Technics and Time, Bernard Stiegler worked carefully through Heidegger's and Husserl's relationship to technics and technology. Here, in volume three, he turns his attention to the prolematic relationship to technics he finds in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, particularly in the two versions of the Transcendental Deduction. Stiegler relates this problematic to the "cinematic nature" of time, which precedes cinema itself but reaches an apotheosis in it as theexteriorization process of schema, through tertiary retentions and their mechanisms. The book focuses on the relationship between these themes and the "culture industry"— as defined by Adorno and Horkheimer—that has supplanted the educational institutions on which genuine cultural participation depends. This displacement, Stiegler says, has produced a malaise from which current global culture suffers. The result is potentially catastrophic. Solicitar por: 190 STIt Trajectoires de vie dans la grande vieillesse : rester chez soi ou s'installer en institution? / Stefano Cavalli.-- Geneve : Georg, 2012. La thèse est consacrée à l'étude d'une transition majeure de la dernière partie du parcours de vie, à savoir le passage d'un domicile privé à un établissement médico-social (EMS). Sur la base des données – à la fois quantitatives et qualitatives – de SWILSOO (Swiss Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study on the Oldest Old), la trajectoire des résidents est suivie depuis l'amont de leur déménagement jusqu'à deux ans environ après l'installation en EMS; de même, les trajectoires des personnes qui entrent en institution sont comparées à celles des contemporains qui continuent à vivre à domicile. Deux ensembles de facteurs prédisent l'entrée en EMS: l'un renvoie au processus de fragilisation, l'autre à des formes d'isolement qui se traduisent en un sentiment de solitude. Dans l'année du déménagement, la santé connaît une dégradation, pour se stabiliser voire s'améliorer par la suite; le bien-être des résidents reste stable et les visites de la famille s'intensifient. Solicitar por: 305.26 CAVt Travelling concepts in the humanities : a rough guide / Mieke Bal.-- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2002. Mieke Bal has written an intellectual travel guide that charts the course 'beyond' cultural studies. As with any guide, it can be used in a number of ways and the reader can follow or willfully ignore any of the paths it maps or signposts. Bal's focus for this book is the idea that interdisciplinarity in the humanities necessary, exciting, serious - must seek its heuristic and methodological basis in concepts rather than its methods. Concepts are not grids to put over an object. The counterpart of any given concept is the cultural text or work or 'thing' that constitutes the object of analysis. No concept is meaningful for cultural analysis unless it helps us to understand the object better on its own terms. Bal offers the reader a sustained theoretical reflection on how to 'do' cultural analysis through a tentative practice of doing just that. This offers a concrete practice to theoretical constructs, and allows the proposed method more accessibility. Solicitar por: 001.4 BALt