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A Documentary Of Innovation Support Among New World Wine Industries, D. K. Aylward

David K. Aylward

During the past two decades, the international wine industry has undergone a ‘seismic shift’. Old World producers no longer dominate production, export and marketing of wine to the extent that they once did. Instead, New World producers such as California, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand have successfully married production, management, marketing and innovation to emerge as a new force on the global wine landscape. It is the innovation supports within these selected New World industries that this paper seeks to document, in order to highlight different approaches and outcomes and how they may or may not contribute to an …

The Development And Presentation Of Psychometric Concept Maps Within The Knowledge Domain Of Security Risk Management, David J. Brooks Dr.

David J Brooks Dr.

The purpose of this interpretive four-phase study was to develop and apply a technique of multidimensional scaling (MDS) to present psychometric concept maps within the knowledge domain of security risk management. Additional and related purposes were to present the knowledge categories and subordinate concepts of security and consider the appropriateness of MDS to develop and present consensual concept maps.

The psychometric MDS security risk management concept map presented the expert knowledge structure of security risk management, demonstrating the inclusive and spatial locality of significant concepts, conceptual complexity of the domain and the central aspect of threat – ratifying the psychometric …

Kicking The Habitus:Power, Culture And Pedagogy In The Secondary School Music Curriculum, Ruth Wright

Ruth Wright Dr

Within a theoretical framework drawn from sociologists of education Bourdieu and Bernstein, this paper will examine some of the findings of an ethnographic case study conducted with a secondary school music teacher and one class of her pupils in Wales. This teacher attracted 25% of Year 10 (14-year-old) pupils to study music as an optional subject against a national background of 8% average. The study attempted to examine the lived experiences of the participants in music at home and school. Teacher and pupils had much to say about music teaching and learning in the classroom and beyond. Much of the …