Tanto en sus escritos narrativos como en los políticos, sociológicos e históricos, es posible percibir en José Victorino Lastarria un idealismo latente –cifrado en la máxima «combatir la ignorancia»– que va construyendo una filantropía señera en las coordenadas latinoamericanas. La…

Aim. This paper is a report of a study conducted to uncover the strategies that women caregivers of relatives with advanced dementia use to rest from care-giving. Background. Respite consists of activities and situations that briefly take caregivers away from their care-giving…

This paper identifies issues in developing a three-year duration, work-focussed undergraduate degree programme with a model of inquiry-based learning supported through online communities of inquiry. On the course, students examine their current work-practice to identify issues and then plan, implement…

Many college students and their families are concerned about the high costs of textbooks. A company called Flat World Knowledge both gives away and sells open-source textbooks in a way it believes to be financially sustainable. This article reports on…

Objective – The primary objective of this study was to gather quantitative information on the need, development, acquisition, and application of pedagogical knowledge by academic librarians with teaching responsibilities.

Design – Online survey questionnaire.

Setting – Higher-education…

El presente artículo, sintetiza los resultados del análisis del aula de preescolar, en la Institución Educativa San Pedro Claver del Municipio de Puerto Boyacá. A partir de interrogantes alrededor del aulacomo espacio físico y de los objetos que confluyen en…

Purpose – Faced with increasing environmental problems, traditional methods for transmitting information regarding corporate environmental actions are insufficient. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to suggest the environmental capital report, the knowledge map and the balanced scorecard as alternative…

El principal objetivo de este estudio es entender la relación entre un conjunto de dimensiones propuestas en el modelo customer- based brand equity, o cbbe (por sus siglas en inglés): conocimiento, relación y actitud hacia la marca, así como preferencia…

Otra forma de administrar las localidades en la globalización, es la vinculación del paisaje con las expresiones culturales. Ese, depende de las miradas naturales o fotografiadas, sometidas ambas a la subjetividad. La acepción aplicada al entorno, se expresa como espectáculo…

This article considers factors that limit or exclude civil society involvement in the regulatory process for nanotechnologies by critically examining an attempt to mount a public-interest legal challenge against the UK Health and Safety Executive for failing to properly enforce…