The 2016 Olympic Games in Rio are finally here, and when it comes to women's swimming, Katie Ledecky is absolutely the one to watch. The 19-year-old athlete from Bethesda, Maryland, has already proven herself to be the top female swimmer at this year's games, arriving in Rio with a number of world records to her name, and will likely take home a number of gold medals when all is said and done.
Definition of differentiation. 1 : the act or process of differentiating. 2 : development from the one to the many, the simple to the complex, or the homogeneous to the heterogeneous differentiation of Latin into vernaculars.
Differentiation as a concept should be distinguished from the concept of diversity. Diversity is a term indicating the variety of entities within a system. While differentiation denotes a dynamic process, diversity refers to a static situation. Differentiation is the process in which new entities in a system emerge; diversity refers to the variety of the entities at a specific point in time (Huisman, 1995, p. 51). The framework to be presented will be directed to differentiation and diversity of