It was hypothesized that children with physical disabilities would show a deficit in procedural and declarative knowledge of ball catching compared to age-matched non-disabled children. The first group of children consisted of sixteen children with physical disabilities, three girls and…

The high rate of sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancies among the Cree adolescents indicate that this population frequently engages in unprotected sexual activities. AIDS is a critical health problem worldwide and AIDS contamination within a Cree community could be…

The main objective of the present work is to investigate the nature of the cognitive processes responsible for the problem-solving operations of novices, intermediates, and experts in a semantically rich and complex domain, i.e. electronics trouble shooting, in relation to…

Las realidades que marcan el recién iniciado milenio establecen inéditas señales paradigmáticas, las cuales acompañan el
devenir de la sociedad de la información y el conocimiento, aupando la aparición de originales nociones espaciales y temporales, conformantes de novedosos procesos…

The thesis examines aspects of the construction of methylmercury as an authoritative object of knowledge for Chisasibi, a Cree community on the James Bay coast in northern Quebec. I describe the evolution of a particular set of spheres of exchange…

El presente trabajo se inscribe en la línea se investigación Educación, Estado, Sociedad que se desarrolla desde el Área de Educación de la Coordinación de postgrado de la Facultad de Humanidades y Educación, en la Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV).…

El presente artículo recoge los resultados de una investigación sobre percepción pública de la ciencia y tecnología en Mérida, cuyo objetivo fue conocer las ideas de la población general y de un grupo de actores sociales sobre estas actividades. Para…

This thesis tries to bring together al-Ghazali's thoughts about different aspects of education, scattered in numbers of works of different kinds and aims at presenting his educational theory in its complete picture. His life, his intellectual career, his mental crises,…

Los cambios a nivel mundial en políticas educativas hacen necesario que el docente se relacione con los procesos tecnológicos, con la finalidad de innovar en su campo de conocimiento, de allí la necesidad de planificar estratégicamente la política de formación…

Rapid population growth is now one of the biggest socio-economic and consequently, health problems in the world. The significance of this dramatic increase in population becomes apparent when the limited possibilities of socio-economic growth are considered among developing countries. The…