Nowadays universities are required not only to impart
knowledge of specific disciplines but also generic graduate
attributes such as communication, problem-solving,
teamwork, creative thinking, research and inquiry skills. For
students to attain these generic skills, educators are
encouraged to use…

The present article examines how practices of computersupported
collaborative designing may be implemented in
an elementary classroom. We present a case study in
which 12-year-old students engaged in architectural design
under the guidance of their teacher and a professional
designer.…

Trata-se da apresentação e discussão dos resultados de um estudo desenvolvido com 73 profissionais da área de enfermagem em um hospital da Região Oeste de Santa Catarina, com o objetivo de identificar conhecimentos, atitudes e comportamentos desses profissionais frente ao…

Cuando se analizan los diseños curriculares que desarrollan las instituciones de formación docente se evidencia que en su mayoría están centrados en la asignaturización de contenidos y en enfoques lógico-instrumentales con énfasis en la simplificación y fragmentación del conocimiento. Así,…

Good university teaching is considered to be a major
requisite for student learning. However, its representation
in the literature is often related to presage factors such as
personal skills and subject matter knowledge of professors
rather than to activities and…

The book is very interesting in that the author Anna Herbert
attempts to use the views of a number of psychological
analysts to explain how different theories can be used to
develop creativity in the classroom and overcome factors
that…

This keynote address gives an overview of
some of the key factors in developing a strong
research base for design and technology
education. In particular, the deconstruction and
reconstruction of the conceptual basis of
design and technology as a subject,…

El presente trabajo es una investigación documental, por su temática es de desarrollo teórico, persigue presentar el enfoque de Ramón A Tovar, sus imágenes de ruptura y continuidad para darle corpus a una ciencia considerada desde el criterio de lo…

This paper describes the development of an image retrieval
system that combines probabilistic and ontological information1. The
process is divided in two different stages: indexing and retrieval. Three
information flows have been created with different kind of information
each one:…

The following article is an analysis about biographical childhood texts incorporation in Chile. From a cultural view and trying to gather the scarce critical tradition around this kind of writing in Latin America, it proposes an interpretation regarding the late…