Acta Academica is an accredited, open access South African journal dedicated to scholarship in the humanities. The publishes independently refereed research articles It promotes perspectives of critical social theory and engagements with postcolonial post-developmental debates special references (Southern) Africa. thereby support scholarly work that examines how humanities twenty-first century ...

Many cities in the Global South are structurally different from Northern, particularly American, on which much of urban sociology’s conceptual apparatus has been based. Thus, depicting them terms a standard vocabulary risks imposing an inappropriate way seeing. We need that is able to accommodate their experience. This special issue contributes work building vocabulary. select five keywords soc...

In this paper, choosing highly frequent keywords from core journals in the field of 1992-2013 national knowledge discovery in CNKI database, counting the number of two frequent keywords co-occurrences in the same journal, then constructing the highly frequent keywords matrix, and transforming the highly frequent keywords matrix into a correlation matrix and a dissimilarity matrix, we analyze th...

Knowledge is one of the most important organizations assets. To manage knowledge effectively, it is necessary to be able to measure knowledge. There are few methods for knowledge measurement with certain limitations. One important weakness of current methods is their insufficient attention to definition, dimensions and attributes of knowledge. In this paper, we propose a new method for measuri...

education and edification has always been one of the major concerns of mankind and has occupied his mind. undoubtedly, providing successful models is the basic needs of the parents and educators in this field. concentrating on educational approaches has an important place in edifiying issues; since it shows the process of edifiying.the purpose of this research is introducing the fundamentals of...

Recently, creativity has become one of the most important keywords in the wide area of academic and industrial research. Idea generation can be viewed as a knowledge creation activity. In this paper, we present a computerized tool, Brainstorming Argumentation Room (BAR), which use a two-dimensional space connected to knowledge association process to stimulate the creativity of experts. The inpu...