The
welfare
system
in
the
United
States
has
seen
great
changes
over
the
course
of
the
last
century,
moving
us
away
from
“charity”
and
towards
a
system
that
considers
cash
assistance
to
be
a
temporary,
support
system
as
people
get

At a time when it is clear that climate change adaptation and mitigation are failing, this book examines how our assumptions about (valid and usable) knowledge are preventing effective climate action. Through a cross-disciplinary, empirically-based analysis of climate science and…

In June 2007, at the Annual General Meeting in Mexico City, IASPM discussed and approved the creation of an online journal with the aim of offering an alternative to recognized academic journals, as practical confirmation that the organization is a…

This research aims to provide a preliminary approach on to what extent linguistic and situational contexts are conducive to successfulvocabulary recognition in discrete-item testing in the context of a language teacher education program in Bogotá. This study resorted to the…

This research-based article presents an interpretive qualitative study with pre-service teachers of Social Studies, who construct their ownmeanings from social-studies texts through their roots of knowledge, their shared assumptions, and the intertextuality which are collectively relatedto the core category: Habitus.…

This special issue examines issues relating to technological, regulatory and industrial change in the popular music industries. The issue draws upon on the breadth of IASPM international knowledge to present a diverse conversation about rights and revenues, particularly copyright law,…

RESUMENEn este trabajo mostraremos, en primer lugar, cómo el sistema de enseñanza no asume, en general, el desarrollo de las competencias necesarias para generar los conocimientos espaciales que todo ciudadano precisa para la vida diaria. En segundo lugar, esbozamos las…

The pedagogical and conceptual bases of the teachers´ formation program in Literacy and Language (Pro-literacy) for the early years of elementary education are problematized. The reduction in schooling knowledge to basic abilities found in the current evaluation reference for literacy…

Automated extraction of knowledge from voluminous documents is a vast research area. Text mining is a promising approach for extracting knowledge from unstructured textual documents. The objective of this paper is to mine documents pertaining to any Medical information in…

, El presente artículo analiza para los años 1960-2004 la composición de género y étnica de los historiadores profesionales costarricenses, su origen geográfico, sus preferencias personales y políticas, su preparación académica, su inserción laboral, su productividad, la calidad de sus…