Diversity in higher education calls for process oriented information literacy (IL) practitioners rather than source oriented practitioners. They must be generalists because e.g. students with different backgrounds to a higher degree bring multi- and interdisciplinarity into the situation of creating…

Objective: Medical genetics presents great potential for improving healthcare outcomes, but faces challenges for managing the test results. This paper focuses on the gaps in clinician knowledge regarding genetic testing and asks what health information technologies (IT) can help non-specialists…

La investigación que nos hemos propuesto consiste en describir cómo dos perspectivas sobre el ejercicio de la crítica de literatura en Venezuela dialogan

en función de cuestionar el saber literario institucionalizado. En un contexto donde la era digital…

Notre recherche vise à décrire les connaissances grammaticales élaborées par des élèves de première secondaire au cours de l’enseignement/apprentissage de l’accord du verbe. Cette description se fonde sur l’observation des interactions didactiques entre les élèves, et leur enseignant autour de…

A review of Richard E. Lee, Knowledge Matters: The Structures of Knowledge and the Crisis of the Modern World System (UQP, 2010).

Las investigaciones desarrolladas por la lingüística moderna y, en particular, por Roman Jakobson, han demostrado científicamente que la función poética del lenguaje tiene la característica de vincular estrechamente el sonido y el sentido. Un campo idóneo para el estudio de…

This article considers higher education in the context of global knowledge economy policies as a site for the production of economic subjectivities. Drawing insights from poststructuralist theory and feminist economics, it explores how the incorporation of economic discourse and market…

Information literacy (IL) is a key strategic objective for academic libraries. Many academic librarians are involved in designing, developing and delivering IL programmes, using both classroom teaching and e-learning methods. IL has also become a priority at institutional level and…

My proposal is based on my doctoral dissertation On the Shoulders of AI-technology : Sociology of Knowledge and Strong Artificial Intelligence which I succesfully defended on May 29th 2009. E-published http://www.lu.se/o.o.i.s?id=12588&postid=1389611 The dissertation is concerned with Sociology’s stance in the…

Este artigo discute o problema da preservação do patrimônio urbano no contexto das cidades, aqui entendida como expressões de modos de vida e relações sociais, presentes nas manifestações da Cultura, no cotidiano dos indivíduos, na família, lazer, ou seja, nas…