Investigates informal leisure uses of technology, including developing home pages, building special interest sites, surfing the Net and participating in electronic communities.

It is argued in this paper that the Islamization of the social sciences should be seen-for conceptual and for pragmatic reasons-as the heart of the Islamization of Knowledge (IOK) movement. If that position is accepted, the importance of efforts to…

The "Cerrado Region" - the acid savannas of Brazil, as many as thirty years ago, were considered as ecosystem unsuitable for agriculture crop production because environmental limitations. However, a burst in agricultural development has taken place in the area during…

Al-Ghazālī expressed many ideas on the theory of knowledge in his different works including Iḥyā’ ‘ulūm aI-dīn as well as al-Risālah al-laduniyyah. The former work is accepted by the scholars as securely attributed to al-Ghazālī, while the authenticity of the…

Increasing attention to higher education policies in the knowledge-based society makes important to understand the relationship between socio-economic family characteristics and educational choices. This paper considers the decision to go to college in Argentina as a family's economic decision. The…

One of the more recent and alluring phrases used by development and resource management practitioners and theorists is "traditional ecological knowledge." Although there is a substantial amount of the literature on this subject, these studies have unfortunately an inadequate characterization…

Cette recherche a été entreprise au milieu d'une polémique qui a affecté
beaucoup de pays occidentaux, mais était particulièrement prédominante dans la
province de Québec. Cette polémique, ancrée dans le processus de globalisation, est
née des accommodements reliés aux différences…

Durante la formación inicial, los estudiantes del profesorado de Educación Física construyen conocimientos teóricos y prácticos alrededor de prácticas corporales ya conocidas y vivenciadas. Aprenden sobre lo aprendido. Redefinen conocimientos prácticos en un nivel mayor de complejidad y abstracción asignándoles…

En este trabajo se aborda el estudio de las relaciones entre sociedad, familia y aprendizaje. Particularmente refiere a las características del contexto alfabetizador hogareño de poblaciones carenciadas y sus repercusiones en las habilidades y conocimientos prelectores de sus hijos. Para…

While theory formation and the relation between theory and data has been investigated in many studies of scientific reasoning, researchers have focused less attention on reasoning about experimental design, even though the experimental design process makes up a large part…