How has Japan become a major economic power, a world leader in the automotive and electronics industries? What is the secret of their success? The consensus has been that, though the Japanese are not particularly innovative, they are exceptionally skilful at imitation, at improving products that already exist. But now two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hiro Takeuchi, turn this conventional wisdom on its head: Japanese firms are successful, they contend, precisely because they are innovative, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Examining case studies drawn from such firms as Honda, Canon, Matsushita, NEC, 3M, GE, and the U.S. Marines, this book reveals how Japanese companies translate tacit to explicit knowledge and use it to produce new processes, products, and services.

The knowledge-creating company : how Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation

The power of feedback.

Social Network Analysis

Recording of presentation introducing narrative analysis, outlining what it is, why it can be a useful approach, how to do it and where to find out more. Presentation given at methods@manchester seminar at University of Manchester on 4 March 2010.

What is Narrative Analysis

How we Think

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Ontwikkeling en gebruik van een zelfbeoordingsprocedure voor docentcompetenties voor het coachen van reflectie door studenten

Teacher induction at the crossroads : an attempt to harmonize the chaos: An essay review of Teacher Induction: The Way Ahead Les Tickle; Open University Press, Buckingham/Philadelphia, Developing Teacher Education Series, 2000, ISBN 0-335-20178-4 (pb), 0-335-20179-2 (hb)

Palavra singular transformada em plural, a identidade como parte integrante da formacao e da atuacao de professores de linguas tem ocupado a agenda de pesquisa em Linguistica Aplicada. Na Universidade Estadual de Londrina ela encontra espaco privilegiado em disciplina integrante do curriculo do Programa de Pos-graduacao em Estudos da Linguagem. Dessa experiencia resultam muitos dos trabalhos que compoem a coletânea. Nos textos da obra reconhecem-se ligacoes da identidade com linguagem, discursos, saberes, crencas, subjetividades, interacoes produzidas no interior de instâncias formativas e tantas outras que dizem respeito a profissao de professor, especialmente de Lingua Inglesa.

Reconsiderando a pesquisa sobre identidade profissional de professores

Veel beginnende docenten zullen deze situatie herkennen. De overgang van de lerarenopleiding naar de beroepspraktijk is dan ook niet makkelijk. Het is een tijd waarin leraren-in-opleiding moeten veranderen van rol: van student naar zelfstandig beroepsbeoefenaar. Daarbij komt dat ze vaak ook in hun prive- Ieven in turbulente tijden zitten: ze laten het studentenleven achter zich, moeten soms verhuizen voor hun baan en laten daarmee vrienden achter.

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Douwe Beijaard

Papers

Ontwikkeling en gebruik van een zelfbeoordingsprocedure voor docentcompetenties voor het coachen van reflectie door studenten

Teacher induction at the crossroads : an attempt to harmonize the chaos: An essay review of Teacher Induction: The Way Ahead Les Tickle; Open University Press, Buckingham/Philadelphia, Developing Teacher Education Series, 2000, ISBN 0-335-20178-4 (pb), 0-335-20179-2 (hb)

Reconsiderando a pesquisa sobre identidade profissional de professores

Iedere beginner worstelt met dilemma's

Veranderingen en accenten in het onderzoek naar leren van docenten: inleiding op het themanummer “Leren van docenten”