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This paper investigates and analyses the process of building a knowledge management (KM) model at Brazil‟s Embrapa (The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation). Embrapa is a world class knowledge organization whose mission is to provide feasible solutions for the sustainable development…

The aim of this paper is to describe and discuss some results from an ethnographic research on Argentinian Mbya communities focused on representations and practices related to childrearing and development during the first stages of life course.
Firstly, I describe…

This paper explores the relation between society, family, and learning. In particular, it addresses the features of home literacy environments in low income families and their impact on children's pre-literacy skills and knowledge. Sixty-two four/five-year-old children and their mothers were…

The purpose of this paper is to characterize the configurations of the families that live in contexts of social exclusion; provide conceptualizations of their operation mode; highlight the formative effects that neighborhood interdisciplinary practices with such families produce in the…

Aplicando los conocimientos de animación y producción adquiridos en la carrera de multimedia y producción audiovisual, se ha creado con conceptos sólidos una historia llamada "Huellas". Es un cortometraje animado en 2D y 3D, diseñado con imágenes que sean de…

El propósito de este trabajo es profundizar en el conocimiento de que disponen los estudiantes de secundaria de los conceptos de trabajo y de calor. Se proponen diferentes actividades a 170 alumnos del último curso de la secundaria postobligatoria (17/18…

This study aims to investigate how elderly consumers narrate their experience of food consumption. Through a qualitative methodology of "ethnographic inspiration", the study sought to understand how a group of elderly people construct meanings of consumption within their particular worldview.…

The article analyses the vision of otherness in the writings of Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-
1904) and of Aurora Bertrana (1892-1974). The 19th century expands the possibilities to undertake trips to faraway lands. The incipient European colonialism, the building of the…

Este trabajo se realizó con el principal objetivo de aportar una importante suma de material didáctico y demostrativo para el uso y aprendizaje de las futuras generaciones de estudiantes en la carrera de electromecánica automotriz de la USFQ. Es de…