Presented at the 21st Conference of the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE), held in Granada, in Summer 2006., One of twenty-five papers exploring our contemporary reading of what is global, the way we comparatively understand this world of new…

2007

Many college students and their families are concerned about the high costs of textbooks. A company called Flat World Knowledge both gives away and sells open-source textbooks in a way it believes to be financially sustainable. This article reports on…

AbstractObjectiveThe last two decades have seen major advancements in our understanding of some of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders in the field of child neurology. However, in the majority of individual patients, it is still not possible to arrive at…

2008

2008

This paper suggests that a new form of racialization is being produced in the information age through developments and innovations in communication technologies. Increasingly, racial knowledge is being constructed from seemingly neutral and unrelated pieces of information, which are collected,…

Estudo do tipo quase-experimental que objetivou apresentar os Índices de Satisfação no Trabalho (ISTs) de uma equipe de enfermagem de uma UTI-adulto e as atividades efetuadas para sua melhoria. Participaram 8 enfermeiras e 9 auxiliares de enfermagem. Todos os requisitos…

O objetivo deste trabalho é compreender as representações sociais sobre saúde e as estratégias de enfrentamento das doenças entre as mulheres dos pescadores de Porto Rico, PR. Utilizou-se como referencial teórico a Teoria das Representações Sociais. Em setembro de 2000,…

Siemens and Downes initially received increasing attention in the blogosphere in 2005 when they discussed their ideas concerning distributed knowledge. An extended discourse has ensued in and around the status of ‘connectivism’ as a learning theory for the digital age.…