Presented at the 21st Conference of the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE), held in Granada, in Summer 2006., One of twenty-five papers exploring our contemporary reading of what is global, the way we comparatively understand this world of new…

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…

This paper suggests that a new form of racialization is being produced in the information age through developments and innovations in communication technologies. Increasingly, racial knowledge is being constructed from seemingly neutral and unrelated pieces of information, which are collected,…

Estudo do tipo quase-experimental que objetivou apresentar os Índices de Satisfação no Trabalho (ISTs) de uma equipe de enfermagem de uma UTI-adulto e as atividades efetuadas para sua melhoria. Participaram 8 enfermeiras e 9 auxiliares de enfermagem. Todos os requisitos…

O objetivo deste trabalho é compreender as representações sociais sobre saúde e as estratégias de enfrentamento das doenças entre as mulheres dos pescadores de Porto Rico, PR. Utilizou-se como referencial teórico a Teoria das Representações Sociais. Em setembro de 2000,…

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…

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…