Naming new realities: supporting trans youth in education

Distance Education in Schools: Realities and Perspectives

This chapter discusses the role of ICT as a catalyst of a new global educational reform in schools aimed to break the monopoly of the print and paper based educational system. Some basic definitions are given although it is emphasized that the area is very dynamic and the definitions are still evolving. The main conclusion related to the ongoing educational reform is that it is based on designi...

Nunavut youth saturated in the realities of suicide.

brother’s beatings and a close friend’s suicide got too much for 17-year-old Carol,* she did what hundreds of young Inuit across Nunavut have done since the territory was created. She formulated a plan to kill herself. Carol intended to go home, during the day, when she knew she’d be alone in the house. She had ready access to ropes and electrical wiring. “I was thinking to actually just hang m...

Organizational Effectiveness: New Realities

New Realities, New Rhythms, other Structures

It is important to analyze the role of screens – computers specially – in the image era we are living, the development of computers as new characters in our every day lives and the intimate relationship established between the user and the multimedia background in front of him. E-mail, internet, animation programs, image processing and other social-artistic advantages of the computer bring othe...

Contexts and Cues in Cyberspace: The Pragmatics of Naming in Text-Based Virtual Realities

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