1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910639992603321

Autore

Kogan Eugene

Titolo

Graphene for Electronics

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022

ISBN

3-0365-6167-6

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (180 p.)

Soggetti

Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Graphene is an allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of atoms arranged in a two-dimensional (2D) honeycomb lattice. Graphene's unique properties of thinness and conductivity have led to global research into its applications as a semiconductor. With the ability to well conduct electricity at room temperature, graphene semiconductors could easily be implemented into the existing semiconductor technologies and, in some cases, successfully compete with the traditional ones, such as silicon. This reprint presents very recent results in the physics of graphene, which can be important for applying the material in electronics.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910483571503321

Autore

Davids Nuraan <1970->

Titolo

Academic Activism in Higher Education : A Living Philosophy for Social Justice / / by Nuraan Davids, Yusef Waghid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021

ISBN

9789811603402

9811603405

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxi, 169 pages)

Collana

Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives, , 2366-2581 ; ; 5

Disciplina

370.115

Soggetti

Education, Higher

Education - Philosophy

Education and state

Educational sociology

Social justice

Higher Education

Educational Philosophy

Educational Policy and Politics

Sociology of Education

Social Justice

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Chapter 1. Philosophy of Higher Education and Interpretivism -- Chapter 2. Criticality and Higher Education -- Chapter 3. Turning to the Subjectivity of the Individual -- Chapter 4. Deconstruction through Writing -- Chapter 5. The Pursuit of a Living Philosophy -- Chapter 6. Revolutionary Action -- Chapter 7. A Pedagogy of Courage -- Chapter 8. A Feminist Critique of University Education -- Chapter 9. Academic Activism and the Postmodern Condition Revisited -- Chapter 10. Through the Agency of the Muselmann -- Postscript: Constraints and impediments to academic activism -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book argues for renewed understandings of academic activism,



understandings that conceive of the ideas, arguments and scholarship of the academe as embedded within the practices of what the academy does. It examines why and how a renewed notion of academic activism informs a philosophy of higher education specifically in relation to teaching and learning. The book focuses on the theories and practices of teaching and learning, in particular how such pedagogical actions are guided by social, political and cultural influences outside of the university as a higher education institution. The authors advocate for a living philosophy of higher education that is commensurate with real actions and imaginary fictions of what constitutes higher education and what remains in becoming for the discourse. With a focus on South African social justice education, the book imagines pathways for academic activism to manifest in revolutionised pedagogical actions or actions that bring into contestation what already exists with the possibility for the cultivation of renewal. .