Tacit knowledge

Diversity and Culture Culture is a powerful characteristic learned over the course of our lives, influenced by our surroundings that develop who we become as an individual. The term is defined in Floyd’s (2014) Interpersonal Communication textbook as, “Culture is defined as the system of learned and shared symbols, language, values, and norms that distinguishes a group of people from another,” (Floyd, 2014, page 36). Culture is one of the traits that brings diversity, and defines people to…

between having a casual conversation and a conversation that uses new vocabulary and strengthens students’ skills in reading and writing. A conversation can be surface level content, which means that students do not reach too far into their prior knowledge and does not challenge them. Purposeful and strategic conversations do have a purpose and an outcome. The authors draw the audience in to this section of the article by using ethos, because a person can tell when a conversation is deep and…

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse is a tale of a young Brahmin (Siddhartha) and his travels to find the deepest meaning of life; enlightenment. By doing so Siddhartha finds himself in multiple situations; he first begins searching for Samana. He eventually starts from that path, however, upon realizing that his physical body is disturbing his road of enlightenment. He had taught himself to realise his consciousness from his physical body. Himself and his childhood friend, Govinda would fast for…

overall I believe that my presentation went very well. This is because of the visuals used, the examples I presented, the tone of the presentation, and my overall knowledge of the subject. Using the feedback summary that I got from my students, I can safely say that my presentation was very successful. However, there are a few key areas of the presentation that I would improve for future use, and there are also a few things that I would do to make the application experience better for all…

A.5. To understand the formative dimension of assessment as a regulatory tool in the teaching-learning process as well as a tool for encouraging students' effort. A.6. To differentiate between evaluation procedures (systematic observation, analysis of the students' productions...) and evaluation tools (checklists, rubrics, written work...) and to apply them in specific situations. DESCRIPTION After having analyzed all the information related to the evaluation process used by my tutor, and…

Theoretical framework Teaching students in further education In this chapter an overview is given of what motivation is and how this can be translated to the daily practice of teaching English to nursing students. Motivation in learning It is no news that the success of a lesson depends on how well the students cooperate in class. In order to gain satisfactory learning results, students have to be motivated to put effort in their learning process. Moreover, the higher their motivation to…

of knowledge” (Khalil Gibran). This quote, better than anything, explains that gaining knowledge begins with disagreement. Multiple people may see the same thing differently having different thoughts and ideas about it. Some of these people’s ideas will turn out to be true depending on the evidence that they get, others seeing that their theories have no backing will agree that what the other person suggests is true. Thus, robust knowledge is created. From this, we can conclude that knowledge…

While exploring the relationship between our shared knowledge and our individual knowledge, we see that there is an influence from both directions. Shared knowledge, in this context, is the knowledge belonging to a particular group of people who may be collaboratively working together, either in a separate ‘space and time’ or different places. On the other hand, personal knowledge can be interpreted as knowledge resulting from the influence of my own individual perspective, which includes…

Explore and develop an Innovation Management Project (IMP) – a ‘live’ consultancy assignment for a real organization. The overall aim is to help the organization reflect on how it manages innovation and to bring some fresh insights and perspectives. For the students it offers a way of integrating ideas and material from the course and exploring innovation management in a specific context. More details will be shared in the class session before closing the Contact 4. AMD (www.amd.com) Disruptive…

intern has to prepare a project report at the end of the internship period. The main objective of the internship is to get the hands-on experience of the real world organization. The internship was completed with the objective of getting practical knowledge in the HR department of Hindalco Industries and also working on the main topic which was assigned to me. The first responsibility I was given during my internship was to understand my project topic which was pre-job engagement activities for…