Shifting insulator boundaries

Converging Technologies, Shifting Boundaries

At the beginning of the 21 century, most people are no longer surprised by technological revolutions. The twentieth century brought us information technology and biotechnology: key technologies for pioneering innovations such as the computer, the Internet and genetically modified plants. In the transition to the twenty-first century, two other important developments: nanotechnology (the researc...

Shifting Boundaries in Systems Engineering

The shifting boundaries of alcohol policy.

Shifting Boundaries of Gender Co(llege)-Existence

The massive entry of women into higher education and their subsequent experience in educational institutions were never a “natural development.” As a matter of fact, as such a realignment of gender space was made possible by a convergence of various socio-historical forces (including nationalistic concerns for educational enhancement, demands of an expanding and upgrading capitalistic mode of p...

Shifting the Boundaries of Employment and Work

There has been limited critical review and development of Human Resource Development (HRD) theory in the past two decades. It is change, and especially the rate at which change occurs, that largely influences the HRD hybrid that any organisation adopts. This paper will systematically consider the professional discussions in a number of countries to trace HRD through four key phases: the ‘duet’,...