1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910255158503321

Titolo

Technology, Theory, and Practice in Interdisciplinary STEM Programs : Connecting STEM and Non-STEM Approaches / / edited by Reneta D Lansiquot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9781137567390

1137567392

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (139 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Pivot

Disciplina

378.173

Soggetti

Science - Study and teaching

Educational technology

Science Education

Digital Education and Educational Technology

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Emerging Technologies and Potential Paradigmatic Shifts in the Community of Inquiry Framework Melissa Layne and Phil Ice -- 2. Designing Technology-Enhanced Active Learning Environments for the Undergraduate Geoscience Classroom Priya Sharma and Kevin P. Furlong -- 3. Educating Students for STEM Literacy: GlobalEd 2 Kimberly A. Lawless, Scott W. Brown, and Mark A. Boyer -- 4. “Out of Order!” Exposure, Experience, E-Learning, and Evaluation: An Interdisciplinary Studies Approach @ Service Learning Elaine Correa -- 5. Promoting an Interdisciplinary Campus Culture Costanza Eggers-Piérola, Bonne August, Cinda P. Scott, Pamela Brown, and Reneta D. Lansiquot. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book highlights models for promoting interdisciplinary thinking and an appreciation for interdisciplinary understanding among students in STEM-related fields. Students majoring in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics often perceive that courses in their major are not related to the general education liberal arts courses required for their degrees. This separation prevents the transfer of



skills between their general education courses and their degree pursuits. The false dichotomy is particularly important because solving the daunting challenges of the twenty-first century—such as drug-resistant bacteria, scarcity of natural resources, and climate change—requires global citizens armed with robust, complex abilities who can integrate interdisciplinary concepts with bold technologies. Contributors to this book explore ways in which this dichotomy can be overcome. Reneta D. Lansiquot is Associate Professor of English and Program Director of the Bachelor of Science in Professional and Technical Writing at New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York, USA. She has published widely on interdisciplinary studies and educational technology.

2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00010005

Autore

DOBSON, Wendy

Titolo

Japan in East Asia : trading and investment strategies / Wendy Dobson Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1993 xii,86 p. : fig. ; 21 cm

ISBN

98-13-01657-4

Classificazione

GIA XII

Soggetti

Economia - Giappone - Investimenti - Asia orientale

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910524680603321

Autore

Danesi Marcel <1946->

Titolo

Analyzing Cultures : An Introduction and Handbook / / Marcel Danesi and Paul Perron

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Indiana University Press, 1999

Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , 1999

©1999

ISBN

0-253-05345-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource xiii, 413 pages.)

Collana

Advances in semiotics

Soggetti

Semiotiek

Cultuur

Kultursemiotik

Semiotics

Culture - Semiotic models

02.02 philosophy and theory of science

Culture - Modeles semiotiques

Semiotique

Einführung

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

; Pt. I. Basic Notions and Views. ; 1. What Is Culture? ; 2. The Field of Cultural Semiotics. ; 3. The Signifying Order -- ; pt. 2. The Semiotic Study of Culture. ; 4. The Body. ; 5. Language. ; 6. Metaphor. ; 7. Space. ; 8. Art. ; 9. Objects. ; 10. Narrative. ; 11. Television and Advertising -- ; pt. III. A Practical Synthesis. ; 12. Semiotic Analysis.

Sommario/riassunto

Analyzing Cultures provides what readers of semiotics, antrhopology, communications, and media studies have long searched for: an intelligent and engaging introduction to semiotic analysis. Marcel Danesi and Paul Perron have written a unique primer that addresses the way culture is studied within a semiotic framework. The authors give a concise, accessible overview of theories of signs in the history of philosophy and the social sciences. Principles of semiotic analysis are



presented with vivid examples drawn from the world around us. Chapters are devoted to, among other things, the body and nonverbal communication; language acquisition, language in its social context, and how language shapes thought; cultural meanings of territories, spaces, and buildings; the importance of art to culture; cultural meanings of objects, artifacts, and technological processes; forms and cultural functions of narrative; and television and advertising media. Analyzing Cultures is without peer as an introduction and reference for readers who want to understand the place of semiotics in the history of philosophy and the social sciences.