visionaries, game changers and challengers

Abstract: The VISIONARY project is a European Commission-sponsored activity involving five European countries to create international and country-specific Internet portals on violence prevention in schools. This paper describes the structure of the Internet portals, which contain information

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of charismatic and visionary leadership language in the 2000 presidential debates by the two major party candidates. A content analysis was performed on the transcript of the first 2000 presidential debate. Vision content and selected types

friends-was a scholarly teacher, master sur-geon, pioneer, and visionary within the develop-ing specialty of vascular surgery. The following tribute provides insight into his life. He came from a medical family. His father and mother went to Montana to homestead, after graduation from Drake

Last year’s Changing the Game Forum included a spirited discussion of the role of the board of directors in shaping the culture of the firm. There was a wide ranging of opinions, symptomatic of a timely issue on which positions and practices are not yet well formulated. This makes it an ideal topic for continued discussion during this year’s Forum! This white paper begins by summarizing some of the main points may during last year’s debate, drawing heavily, at first, on the session summary from last year. (Center for Corporate Change, 2004). On one hand, several of last year’s featured speakers were strong advocates of the board of directors taking an active position with respect to the culture of the organization. For example, Mr. Rand Garbacz, of AT Kearney in San Francisco, in his position paper framing the session, noted that “Culture impacts the interests of all other stakeholders, and thus derivatively has a direct, measurable impact on shareholder wealth”. Therefore, he said, culture, as a governance role is neither optional nor tangential. He argued that culture starts with the board and identified a number of board issues that

The tide of most human endeavors and outcomes are subject to conscious direction. That is what economic development policy and planning is all about – taking control, providing a sense of direction, specifying goals, and mapping ways to fulfill goals. It comes down to some manner of more rational, more logically arrived at consensus regarding national priorities and goals that control

‘Unconscious historicization ’ is a concept introduced by British anthropologist Charles Stewart (2003), who works for years on dreams as a symbolic mirror of collective behavior and consciousness. Drawing on examples of ‘dreams of treasures ’ in modern Greece, he shows that such dreams, especially ones that show people (or the act of) finding treasures, “arise as unconscious by-products of the intense historical consciousness”. They may be seen “a divinatory look into the future to discover a past that will enrich the present ” (Stewart 2003: 481). Taken as sociocultural facts, treasures in Greece, as elsewhere, may be considered as ‘sediments ’ of History. According to the common knowledge, they are buried in the earth in times of crisis and despair, or “when people fled away”. To put it in other words, they are ‘hidden ’ in critical periods of History, which, according to historians and archeologists, coincide with invasions, conquests, wars, and all that might represent one or another form of ‘death ’ of a culture1. Seen from this perspective, their bringing to light is an attempt to restore and reconstruct historical continuity. It is not difficult to find Balkan examples of ‘treasure hunting ’ to which this logic might be extended. Yet applying Stewart’s reasoning fosters a new approach to the figures, and the trope, of ‘treasure ’ in ∗ The Bulgarian version of this text is a more developed version of an article initially

I would like to begin by thanking the conference organizers for inviting me to join you here today and to share my research on globally networked learning environments. What I share with you here today is what I have learned through my work with many, many colleagues and students for whose collaboration I am deeply grateful. I would also like to acknowledge the support for this work from McGill University in the form of a teaching and learning grant and from the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication in the form of a research grant. For several years now, my colleagues and I have been studying partnerships and the role of the internet in higher education. More recently, we have focused on faculty innovations in globally networked learning—the visions they create and aspire to, the hard work and passion they put into helping students develop global understanding and make knowledge in new ways, the challenges they have faced, the successes they have celebrated, and the new opportunities for innovation they have created at their universities. As I will discuss in a little while, globally networked learning environments represent an exciting paradigm shift—an innovation in learning that is critical to the development of a global civil society. And while these learning environments are only emerging, they reflect deeper social and technological