1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450129003321

Titolo

Gender consciousness and privilege / / eleste M. Brody. [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Falmer Press, , 2000

ISBN

1-135-69903-8

9786610167975

1-135-69904-6

1-283-96283-7

1-280-16797-1

0-203-97891-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BrodyCeleste M

Disciplina

306.43

Soggetti

Coeducation - United States

Educational equalization - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-170) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Studying Gender Consciousness and Privilege; 2 Faculty Constructions of Gender at Xavier Preparatory High School; 3 Three Teachers, Three Classrooms, Three Schools; 4 Gendered Cultures and Students' Lives; 5 Curricular Reform, Classroom Equity: The Case of Mathematics; 6 Action Research and Feminism; 7 Conclusions; Epilogue; Appendix A: Faculty Questionnaire: Xavier High School; Appendix B: Xavier Faculty Follow-Up Questionnaires; Appendix C: Guiding Questions for the Xavier Faculty Focus Groups

Appendix D: Student Surveys Appendix E: Student Focus Group Topics; References; Notes on the Authors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Develops a new framework for working in schools that helps educators make informed decisions about change at individual, classroom, curricular and school levels on behalf of gender equity. Addresses the issue of understanding the impact of education on the two sexes, and looks at responsibility for creating gender-fair environments,



organizing work and creating environments for learning. The book draws on a two-year study into the role that gender played as three Catholic high schools prepared to move from single sex to coeducation. It does not weigh the advantages of single sex against

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910537526003321

Autore

Schmidt Florian A.

Titolo

Crowd design : from tools for empowerment to platform capitalism / / Florian Alexander Schmidt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland : , : Birkhäuser, , 2017

ISBN

3-0356-1051-7

3-0356-1067-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Board of international research in design

Classificazione

DES000000DES007000

Disciplina

658.402202854678

Soggetti

Virtual work teams

Groupware (Computer software)

Work design

Human computation

DESIGN / General

DESIGN / Graphic Arts / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Royal College of Art, London, 2015.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254).

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword BIRD -- About the Book -- Introduction: Coming to Terms with Crowdsourcing -- Chapter One: The Reinvention of the Crowd -- Chapter Two: Early Concepts of Online Collaboration -- Chapter Three: The Design of Crowdsourcing -- Chapter Four: The Crowdsourcing of Design -- Conclusion: Towards an Ethics of Creative Crowdwork -- The Author -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Die digitale Revolution ist mit dem Versprechen verknüpft, die Selbstständigkeit des einzelnen Nutzers zu stärken. Der Aufstieg von kommerziellen Plattformen zur Koordination von Crowdarbeit stellt die Gültigkeit dieses Narrativs jedoch in Frage. In Crowd-Design analysiert



Florian Alexander Schmidt die Entstehungsgeschichte, Funktionsweise und Rhetorik solcher Plattformen. Der Vergleich von historischen Crowd-Diskursen und Visionen der Online-Kollaboration bildet den Ausgangspunkt für eine kritische Betrachtung aktueller Ausprägungen von Crowdarbeit: Der Fokus der Studie liegt auf der Auslagerung von Designaufgaben unter Verwendung dieser Crowdsourcing-Plattformen. Grundlegenden Mechanismen, welche den Plattformbetreibern zur Motivation und Kontrolle der Crowds dienen, werden offengelegt.

The digital revolution is interwoven with the promise to empower the user. Yet, the rise of centralised, commercial platforms for crowdsourced work questions the validity of this narrative. In Crowd-Design, Florian Alexander Schmidt analyses the workings and the rhetoric of crowdsourced work platforms by comparing the way they address the masses today with historic notions of the crowd. The utopian concepts of early online collaboration are taken as a vantage point from which to view and critique current and, at times, dystopian applications of crowdsourced work. The study is focused on the crowdsourcing of design tasks, but these specific applications are used to examine the design of the more general mechanisms employed by the platform providers to motivate and control the crowds. Crowd-Design is as much about the crowdsourcing of design as it is about the design of crowdsourcing.