A clear tension exists between the traditional process-oriented view of interface design and the emerging improvisation-oriented view of interface activity, which arises particularly from sociological investigations of computer-based work. This paper attempts to address this disparity and begin to bridge the gap, focussing on technological foundations and implications, in a way which makes the ...

Co-operative inquiry is a radically participative form of inquiry in which all those involved are both co-researchers and co-subjects. The methodology of co-operative inquiry is set out in a ‘Layperson’s Guide’ which might be used to introduce the method to a new group. This is followed by a reflection on the learning process of an inquiry group, particularly the process of research cycling, th...

This theoretical study seeks to contribute to the reflection on public policies in the field of information literacy in Portugal. For this purpose, we look at the status quo of how information literacy has been addressed in Portugal, discussing the aspects concerning public policies, which include an interconnection between scientific knowledge and public action. So, the main objective is to de...

Teams have been identified as the vehicle for learning in organizations. However, little is known about the factors that enable teams to learn. From an applied perspective, leadership constitutes a very relevant ingredient. This study is a first step in building up this theory by focusing on the role of shared leadership in team learning. We present data from an exploratory observatory study on...

considerable time. The book is lucidly written, but is not easy to read, for the immense amount of information eventually numbs the mind. It is a pity, therefore, that the publishers have chosen inadequately to support the author's scholarship and the reader's participation. The book's structure is unhelpful, offering the reader little in the way of guidance, and little pause for evaluation and...

To any complex reflection group W ⊂ GL(V ), one may attach a braid group B(W ), defined as the fundamental group of the space of regular orbits for the action of W on V [Broué et al. 98]. The “ordinary” braid group on n strings, introduced by [Artin 47], corresponds to the case of the symmetric group Sn, in its monomial reflection representation in GLn(C). More generally, any Coxeter group can ...

Reflective practice was originally conceived as a radical critique of technical rationality, and was based on the premise that knowledge generated by practitioners reflecting on their own experiences is of at least equal value to knowledge derived by ac ademics from empirical research. However, experiential knowledge from reflection-on-action now finds itself at the bottom of the hierarchy of e...

School principals were invited to perform a reflective analysis of their teacher’s supervision practices, with the goal of consolidating the knowledge derived from experience, developing appropriate methods, and adapting their interventions. Data were collected from 12 semi-structured interviews. The interview to the double method was used to facilitate the representation and formalization of p...