There are different approaches used by mathematics teacher educators to help pre-service primary teachers develop the useful skills and knowledge required to teach mathematics. One of these approaches is concerned to learning to notice relevant aspects in mathematics teaching. But…

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2008v7n1p69For naturalistic and non-intuitionistic moral realists, moral knowledge is more problematic than ordinary and scientific factual knowledge. For without special faculties of moral discernment, how could we ever detect moral facts and properties? Physical facts and properties may be accessible to perceptual…

The goal of the study was to explore post-secondary students’ purposes for blogging with particular attention to the social and instructional purposes. The sample of blogs came from an all-women’s college in the United Arab Emirates. Content analysis was conducted…

En cualquier época o contexto, la investigación tiene una relevancia de primer orden, formando parte de un escenario complejo. La complejidad en sí misma se refleja sobre la base de que cada proceso que implique producción y comprensión de la…

The purpose of this paper is to determine the degree of implementation of the knowledge management process in two selected groups of companies of the states of Carabobo (Venezuela) and Tamaulipas (Mexico). A non-experimental research was made, with a transactional…

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2008v7n1p87In the first part of this essay, I shall sketch the debate about vampirism during the age of Enlightenment historically, while in the second part, I will interpret this debate philosophically. The historical reconstruction mainly relies on Gábor Klaniczay’s brilliant essay The…

El estudio indaga la actuación de profesores experimentados a partir de la caracterización de explicaciones en clases de física en una facultad de ingeniería. La aproximación metodológica es cualitativa. Es un estudio de casos. Dado el carácter social, didáctico, semiótico,…

          Simus, Jason Boaz, Disturbing Nature's Beauty: Environmental Aesthetics in a New Ecological Paradigm. Doctor of Philosophy (Philosophy), August 2009, 132 pp., 223 references, 153 titles.          An ecological paradigm shift from the ";;balance of nature";; to the ";;flux…

          Simus, Jason Boaz, Disturbing Nature's Beauty: Environmental Aesthetics in a New Ecological Paradigm. Doctor of Philosophy (Philosophy), August 2009, 132 pp., 223 references, 153 titles.          An ecological paradigm shift from the ";;balance of nature";; to the ";;flux…

The internationalisation process in a company embodies a series of projects that are performed in different geographical regions. In some cases, especially in SMEs, companies are not capable of predicting the risks that will be faced during the process and…