Denomination and primary education in the Netherlands (1870-1984)
Culturel ; Education ; Enseignement primaire ; Géographie historique ; Pays-Bas ; Processus de diffusion ; Système scolaire
Cultural geography ; Diffusion process ; Education ; Educational system;Educational organization ; Historical geography ; Netherlands (The) ; Primary education
This study deals with the processes of verzuiling and ontzuiling in the Dutch education system. « Verzuiling » is the historical transformation of religiously-based subcultural groups into highly integrated complexes of organizations, whereby
contacts between people belonging to different organizational complexes were almost excluded. The phenomenon « verzuiling » is reviewed in an international context. - (AGD)
Keeping the high-tech region open and dynamic : the organizational networks of Taiwan's integrated circuit industry
The paper aims to bridge the literatures of industrial districts and organizational networks by studying the development of organizational relationships in Taiwan's integrated circuit industry. Firms are highly concentrated in the Hsinchu Science
-based Industrial Park. Along with the creation and maintenance of global competitiveness in this industry, the means of developing organizational relationships and geographical linkages are examined in this paper.
The paper presents the results of a questionnaire filled in by Polish National Parks Authorities in autumn 2007. Answers were given by the Authorities of 18 parks. Questions concerned the following issues: management plans, fields of education
of Authorities’ staff, financial matters, responsibility for the Natura 2000 sites conservation, threats to natural values, organizational and legal obstacles encountered by the Authorities, cooperation with different social groups and volunteers. - (BJ)
This article presents an initial analysis of Polish geographers’ education process, particularly geography teachers’ education, during implementation of the Bologna Declaration guidelines. The most important elements in implementation
of the guidelines will be the introduction of two stages and two subjects of teachers’ studies, removing obstacles limiting mobility of students and academic workers, and cooperation in ensuring the suitable quality of education. The initial research shows
differences in geographers’ education process, different study programmes and curricula and existence of some original developing projects. There are also some ineffective and impractical approaches established, which should be corrected as soon as possible
. Besides the suggested organizational and programming changes, crucial will be determination of the influence of these changes on developments of knowledge and professional competences, and preparation for teaching two subjects in order to achieve
Amsterdam ; Education ; Finance ; Financialization ; Governance ; Netherlands (The) ; Noord Holland ; University
This article examines the financialization of a the University of Amsterdam. From 1995 onwards, a shift in real estate management—devolving responsibilities from the Dutch state to universities, triggering changes in organizational culture
Practising the diffusion of organizational routines
, in relation to a knowing in practice perspective. Within a relational approach, the authors propose taking a practice-based perspective to the diffusion of organizational routines, with (i) knowing, (ii) collaborations, and (iii) policy relevance being
Virtual departments, power, and location in different organizational settings
department breaks down or reinforces vertical chains and levels of command spanning many locations within an organizational hierarchy. Reeingineering processes reinforce older hierarchical and spatial structures. They reproduce hierarchical human relations
This article seeks to reconstruct the organizational and ownership change that has affected rail-transport enterprises in Poland since 2000. It augments a first part (appearing in Przegląd Geograficzny 2010, 82:4 and dealing with organizational