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Can The Love Of Learning Be Taught?, R. Nillsen
Can The Love Of Learning Be Taught?, R. Nillsen
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
This paper is an expanded version of a talk given at a Generic Skills Workshop at the University of Wollongong, and was originally intended for academic staff from any discipline and general staff with an interest in teaching. The issues considered in the paper include the capacity of all to learn, the distinction between learning as understanding and learning as information, the interaction between the communication and the content of ideas, the tension between perception and content in communication between persons, and the human functions of a love of learning. In teaching, the creation of a fear-free environment is emphasised, …
Envisioning Communication From The Edge, David Mckie, Judy M. Motion, Debashish Munshi
Envisioning Communication From The Edge, David Mckie, Judy M. Motion, Debashish Munshi
Faculty of Business - Papers (Archive)
In mapping movements on the edge, we explore how scholars redefine the boundaries of what constitutes research and practice. In The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits, a book that already promises to be one of the seminal business books of the 21 st century, C. K. Prahalad (2004) recounts his difficulties in finding a journal to publish the research that informed his book. Thanks to his earlier success with a prizewinning bestseller on more conventional business strategy, Competing for the Future (Hamel & Prahalad, 1994), Prahalad went on to find a book publisher despite …