Los medios de difusión de la información influyen en las formas de relación social grupales e individuales, imponen patrones de comportamiento, estereotipos y representaciones de la realidad. Es por ello que los medios determinan ciertas formas de
conocimiento de…

El presente ensayo tiene como propósito generar una aproximación teórica para fundamentar, desde una perspectiva
multidimensional, la evidente existencia de un circuito tetralógico: sujeto-empresa-universidad-contexto, en el que se construye «el conocimiento». Es así, como se plantea una investigación que usa…

Le decept es entendido como la distancia entre las creencias de los individuos y el movimiento de la historia, la existencia de un tiempo individual y uno colectivo, conformada la primera en un movimiento soportado por la espera y el…

This study delineates practical knowledge bases that university professors draw upon during exemplary Critical Incidents of teaching. One hundred and eight full-time, tenure track, university professors from departments of Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Engineering, English, History, Math, and Philosophy across the…

La estimación de precios es un proceso crítico para la elaboración de presupuestos en compañías que tienen que competir para obtener pedidos ofreciendo precios competitivos. En concreto, las compañías de mecanizado de piezas, dicho proceso es complejo, pues se pueden…

The three essays in the present dissertation build on and expand the notion of generativity in the context of a learning (i.e., knowledge creating) organization, and learning (i.e., knowledge based) economy in sequential progression with increasing levels of analysis. Essay…

Academics believe in a symbiotic relationship between research and teaching, though evidence challenges its existence. Previous studies may have defined these constructs too narrowly to detect the perceived relationships. This study used a qualitative approach to investigate chemistry professors' beliefs…

The history of post-disaster reconstruction programs, especially in developing countries, is replete with the failure to provide safe-construction methods that can be sustained and repeated over time, in spite of the usually acclaimed success of these projects by those in…

In 2006 a youth health survey was conducted in Pangnirtung, Nunavut as part of a community collaboration. The survey assessed food use, nutrient status and anthropometry. Thirty four percent of youth were above healthy weight; soft drink consumption averaged 1…

In education, 'gender' is consistently operationalized as a body of 'common sense' knowledge that can be freely invoked in an explanatory fashion. This study names such knowledge practices as artefacts of gender-normative privilege and links 'how' knowledge of gender conveyed…