Cette thèse a pour but de documenter la réorganisation des services effectuée au programme Enfants et adolescents (PEA) du Centre de réadaptation Estrie, Sherbrooke. Une démarche de recherche-action participative (RAP) est utilisée afin de collaborer au développement, à l’implantation et…

Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar como ocorre o processo de transferência do conhecimento entre as empresas juniores confederadas à Brasil Júnior e os atributos da formação de um ambiente de rede interorganizacional em tal processo. Nas linhas introdutórias são…

Em Minas Gerais predominam solos de baixa fertilidade natural e tipos climáticos mais secos. A deficiência de oxigênio é localizada em várzeas e em solos rasos. A erosão é agravada nos solos de textura média e arenosa e a mecanização…

In this dissertation I examine the conceptions of opinion (<italic>doxa</italic>}), knowledge (<italic>gnosis</italic>), and understanding (<italic>episteme</italic>) that are presented by the character Socrates in Plato's <italic>Meno</italic> and <italic>Republic</italic>. A central claim I make, and one that sets my interpretation apart from…

La evaluación como proceso no es un conocimiento estático, lo cual invita a
todos los entes involucrados en el proceso educativo a reflexionar con respecto
a como se concibe en la actualidad, y acerca de cómo se pueden realizar
innovaciones…

This dissertation is a history of astronomy in three cultural locations in late Ottoman Egypt: the scholarly culture of Muslim ulama, the state institution of the Viceregal Observatory, and the Arabic press. Through an interwoven history of these cultures, the…

Learning from experience, the cyclical interplay of thinking and doing, is increasingly
important as organizations struggle to cope with rapidly changing environments and more
complex and interdependent sets of knowledge. This paper confronts two central issues
for organizational learning: (1)…

This dissertation focuses on the specific strategies by which authors of the travel writing genre seize narrative agency. Throughout its centuries-long history, the genre of travel writing has offered multiple generations of authors a means by which to convey observations…

The United States is struggling to provide health care in the face of ever increasing demand. As medical students continue their decades long march toward specialization, questions of how to provide generalist care become quickly intertwined with that of who…

During the twentieth century, tobacco farmers in rural North Carolina quietly changed the relationship between the government and citizen in America . Flue-cured tobacco growers produced not only the finest cigarette leaf, but also new systems of marketing, regulating, and…