Indígenas y campesinos de diversas localidades mexicanas, fundamentalmente de la Sierra Norte de Puebla, se congregan durante cinco años en las instalaciones del Cesder, en Zautla, alrededor de una Licenciatura en Desarrollo Rural que les permitirá, una vez obtenido el…

Esta tesis plantea utilizar un modelo de gestión de conocimiento en el área de Seguridad Industrial de SALICA del Ecuador. Para ello es importante llegar a la definición de la estrategia organizacional del área, cristalizada en un Mapa Estratégico y…

Una tarea de los formadores de profesores es crear oportunidades de aprendizaje que ofrezcan las mejores condiciones para que los estudiantes para profesor desarrollen el conocimiento y destrezas necesarios para enseñar matemáticas. Una aproximación a esta tarea vincula la práctica…

Palm leaves are an important resource for family households. The effect of harvest on leaf production, growth and fecundity of wild individual palm trees has been studied, but little is known about palm harvest in agro-forestry systems. In the Maya…

This thesis investigates Plato's analogy between virtue and crafts, a comparison made extensively in the early dialogues. I first detail the model of technical knowledge that Plato uses as a paradigm of knowledge. An application of this model shows the…

The Listener is an automated system that unintrusively performs knowledge acquisition from informal input. The Listener develops a coherent internal representation of a description from an initial set of disorganized, imprecise, incomplete, ambiguous, and possibly inconsistent statements. The Listener can…

This thesis presents a development environment for Design Expert Systems that features a new language where the roles of knowledge and the way it is brought to bear are predefined by the solution method., The language also allows knowledge to…

McGill management certificates are credit continuing education programs. Perceptions of the benefits achieved through participation were investigated, surveying 1424 students in four cohorts: entrants, graduates, alumni and withdrawn., Goals of entrants factored into six categories: career development, gaining knowledge, fulfiling…

This thesis examined the knowledge and processes that adults use to reason about moral dilemmas. Two contrasting analyses of moral reasons, Kohlberg's justice orientation and Gilligan's response orientation, were reviewed and criticized. From this a Moral Reasoning Grammar which formally…

In recent years, research with students identified as academically gifted has focused on what processes enable these students to perform at high levels of ability. The present study was carried out in the context of exploring the role of metacognition…