The purpose of this article is to explore school leaders’ perceptions about multilingualism with regard to learning and social integration for minority students in an upper secondary school. The analysis is based on interviews with school leaders and a social…

This paper reports on mathematics and science teacher concerns using Inquiry based strategies in their teaching. Two different surveys were conducted, one with 24 teachers to become future instructional leaders on Inquiry Based Learning (IBL), and one with 75 teachers…

In this work two declarative approaches based on the BDI theory are studied, an agent programming language 3APL and an agent architecture that uses defeasible argumentation for knowledge representation and reasoning. Based on that study and considering that in 3APL…

This article presents the confluence of two general ideas: Defeasible Logic Programming (DeLP, an argumentation based formalism for representing knowledge and reasoning) and Abduction in logic. In first place, we introduce a framework that formally states the problem of doing…

When using tableaux algorithms to reason about Description Logics (DLs), new information is inferred from the models considered while trying to achieve knowledge satisfiability. By focusing the ontology change problem, we consider an environment where DLs are the logical formalization…

In this paper, the two-dimensional strip packing problem with 3-stage level patterns is tackled using genetic algorithms (GAs). We evaluate the usefulness of a greedy seeding procedure for creating the initial population, incorporating problem knowledge. This is motivated by the…

En esta comunicación presentaremos el trabajo que estamos realizando, centrado en la creación de entornos que permitan la construcción conjunta del conocimiento mediante herramientas informáticas, en concreto la herramienta Knowledge Forum como elemento mediador en el proceso de discusión y…

Dans le contexte actuel de l’éducation, l’enfant est davantage placé au cœur des relations entre la famille, l’école et la communauté, et les parents sont invités à accompagner leur enfant tout au long de son parcours scolaire. Quant aux enseignants,…

Le Sénégal est confronté à plusieurs enjeux environnementaux accentués par l’exode rural, la croissance démographique et l’urbanisation galopante. Dans la capitale de Dakar, les populations sont exposées à des risques industriels, sanitaires et environnementaux importants. Face aux conséquences néfastes des…

El hombre desde que nace empieza a aprender. Algunos conocimientos se adquieren sin percatarnos de ellos, otros necesitan esfuerzos y dedicación, algunos son estrictamente necesarios, otros no lo son tanto. El proceso de búsqueda de relaciones es un modo de…