In 'Fairness in Practice – A Social Contract for a Global Economy' (2012) Aaron James proposes a substantial normative framework for a theory of fairness in the global economy. Based on a distinctive methodology of interpretive constructivism, James argues for an internal justification of...

In "Fairness in Practice - A Social Contract for a Global Economy" (2012) Aaron James proposes a substantial normative framework for a theory of fairness in the global economy. Based on a distinctive methodology of interpretive constructivism, James argues for an internal justification of...

In Zambia poverty mitigation programmes based on agricultural production assets transfer constitute social protection and have been implemented to help the poor change their experiences of poverty and transform their social economic relationships. The effect of these programmes in realizing...

Im Zuge der Globalisierung und der sich in diesem Zusammenhang verstärkenden Sehnsucht nach dem Lokalen gelangen die Konstruktionen von Heimat und regionaler Identität verstärkt in den Fokus wissenschaftlichen Interesses. Während für den Terminus der regionalen Identität fachstrategisch...

Im Zuge der Globalisierung und der sich in diesem Zusammenhang verstärkenden Sehnsucht nach dem Lokalen gelangen die Konstruktionen von Heimat und regionaler Identität verstärkt in den Fokus wissenschaftlichen Interesses. Während für den Terminus der regionalen Identität fachstrategisch...

Think-aloud protocols have been used for decades as a method for eliciting the activity which is occurring in a translator's mind. In this study think aloud protocols have been used not only as a data collecting method but also as a technique for training translators which may be effectual in...

Many authoritative scholars of Business Administration reported limits to teaching exclusively through frontal lectures, as traditionally taught in degree courses in Economics. The IFAC (International Federation of Accountants) recommends a less passive approach to teaching by providing more...

Ethnic diversity is often seen to be detrimental to peace and stability, particularly if ethnicity is the basis for political mobilization. Mobilization is assumed to increase the salience of ethnicity, and with it in-group cohesion, out-group animosity, and national instability; yet the...

Views about the place of young people in schools and society have changed over the past few years. A major theme in the theoretical framework of constructivist learning is that learning is an active process in which learners connect new knowledge and skills to existing ones and, thus, construct...

La práctica docente resulta de la aplicación de una conjunción de teorías como el cognoscitivismo, la teoría crítica en educación, el funcionalismo y el pragmatismo que puestas en práctica dan como resultado un modelo apegado a lo dispuesto por planes y programas de estudio. El...

This study was based on a series of professional development workshops held over a two-year period with the entire complement of history and social studies teachers (n = 53) in a large mid-western school district in the United States. The primary purpose of this study was to discover which...

This study was based on a series of professional development workshops held over a two-year period with the entire complement of history and social studies teachers (n = 53) in a large mid-western school district in the United States. The primary purpose of this study was to discover which...

Yelena Kardanova - Candidate of Sciences, Director, Center of Education Quality Monitoring, Education Institute, National Research University - Higher School of Economics. E-mail: ekardanova@hse.ruAddress: 13, Milyutinsky lane, Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation. Alyona Ponomaryova - Intern...

In the context of an emerging multipolar world, the transatlantic partnership faces various challenges in the attempt to maintain the Western-shaped and dominated liberal order. This article aims to synthesize and rationalize the central argumentative positions on the ever-evolving transatlantic...

Ethnic diversity is often seen to be detrimental to peace and stability, particularly if ethnicity is the basis for political mobilization. Mobilization is assumed to increase the salience of ethnicity, and with it in-group cohesion, out-group animosity, and national instability; yet the...

This paper examines some of the major ideational aspects of Timor-Leste’s foreign policy orientation in the post-independence period. Drawing upon the constructivist accounts of state behaviour, the paper situates Timorese leaders’ foreign policy decisions in the broader context of their...

East Asia (including Southeast and Northeast Asia) has witnessed the most spectacular pacification in the world during the past 30 years. Certain dimensions related to human security have been perceived as weak points in the long peace of East Asia. Despite progress, authoritarian violence is...

В статье анализируются проблемы проектирования стратегий развития образовательных систем в условиях глобализации. В качестве системного фактора...

Learners are formally sent to school to be taught by teachers for learning to take place. Students learn both in and outside the school. They even learn from their peers. In the past, the teacher strives to teach in other to cover the provisions in the curriculum. The methods of teaching adopted...

(VF)Cet article propose de détailler les particularités, modalités et apports d’un mode d’accès à la réalité qualifié de recherche-accompagnement afin d’en discuter la légitimité. La recherche-accompagnement qui sert de point d’appui à la réflexion est une recherche...