This dissertation studies nonlinear panel data models with multiple fixed effects. The first two chapters consider the adaptability of estimation methods for nonlinear panel data models to multiple fixed effects. The first chapter investigates whether existing methods can be modified…

The use of new technologies does not mean that the applied education model is modern. New technologies can be used in a way that follows the traditional education model, with all its deficiencies. The collaborative education model involves students in…

La colonialidad, como fenómeno inscrito en estructuras de poder, se manifiesta también en el acceso sexual, en la autoridad colectiva, en el mundo del trabajo, en las dinámicas de subjetividad/intersubjetividad, y en la producción de conocimientos. Estas estructuras coloniales permiten…

The environment workshop was carried out in 2010 and 2011. Its main objective was to make students able to discover their role in the change process towards taking care of the environment and the sustainable use of natural resources, linking…

In this dissertation I examine the conceptions of opinion (<italic>doxa</italic>}), knowledge (<italic>gnosis</italic>), and understanding (<italic>episteme</italic>) that are presented by the character Socrates in Plato's <italic>Meno</italic> and <italic>Republic</italic>. A central claim I make, and one that sets my interpretation apart from…

La evaluación como proceso no es un conocimiento estático, lo cual invita a
todos los entes involucrados en el proceso educativo a reflexionar con respecto
a como se concibe en la actualidad, y acerca de cómo se pueden realizar
innovaciones…

This dissertation is a history of astronomy in three cultural locations in late Ottoman Egypt: the scholarly culture of Muslim ulama, the state institution of the Viceregal Observatory, and the Arabic press. Through an interwoven history of these cultures, the…

Learning from experience, the cyclical interplay of thinking and doing, is increasingly
important as organizations struggle to cope with rapidly changing environments and more
complex and interdependent sets of knowledge. This paper confronts two central issues
for organizational learning: (1)…

This dissertation focuses on the specific strategies by which authors of the travel writing genre seize narrative agency. Throughout its centuries-long history, the genre of travel writing has offered multiple generations of authors a means by which to convey observations…

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