This work shows several ways to meet and relax the body through personal knowledge and techniques encounter with nature. Modern life and fast, the constant pressure from childhood to adulthood, in the modes of interaction between individuals and groups, they…

The main contention in this paper is that the process of communicating scientific knowledge could be compared to the role of the translator as communicator (Hatim & Masón, 1997). Like the translator, the task of the scientist is to encode…

Content vocabulary may have different connotative values and different denotational meanings in different languages according to cultural idiosyncracy, manifested in culture-specific "key" meanings and culture-related scripts. Our claim here is that, even in all these cases involving the use of…

The paper analyzes how the traditional variables that define a firm’s organizational structure (formalization, complexity, and centralization) influence knowledge performance (the degree to which a firm generates knowledge and uses it to reach a competitive advantage). Three hypotheses are tested…

The pragmatic approach to translation implies the consideration of translation as a useful test case for understanding the role of language in social life. Under this view this article analyses the decision-making stage translators go through in the course of…

Abstract: This study attempts to reconstruct Western critical pedagogy from an Islamic perspective and to explore its contribution to the resolution of the crisis in the Muslim mind and Islamic education. It analyses the underlying philosophical assumptions behind critical theory,…

The São Francisco River basin in Brazil is marked by socio-economic disparities and environrnental vulnerabilities. Water managers in the semi-arid region of the basin are faced with several challenges, such as competition among different water user groups, local over-exploitation of…

This paper analyzes the teaching practices of selection and
organization of knowledge in regular and special schools, particularly those dedicated to
teaching students with a history of mental disability, and seeks to support the teaching
practice in the selection and…

This paper analyzes the teaching practices of selection and
organization of knowledge in regular and special schools, particularly those dedicated to
teaching students with a history of mental disability, and seeks to support the teaching
practice in the selection and…

The following article discusses the concepts of tradition,
experience, and narrative in Walter Benjamin´s philosophy, from the perspective of
educational research. As a critical thinker and protector of culture, Walter Benjamin tried
to relate in one philosophical system the multiplicity…