The article examines the challenges Italian humanists faced as Greek scientific literature was gradually incorporated into their broad translation agenda during fifteenth century. accurate and interpretation of naturalia called question rhetoric-based norms underpinning humanist programme, instead re-oriented intellectual debates regarding relationship between res verba, terminological exactnes...

This study examines perspectives and practices regarding multiculturalism among 20 secondary social studies teachers in South Korea. Utilizing semi-structured interviews critical discourse analysis, the seeks to capture how teachers’ understandings of (Damunhwa Korean) its practice are influenced by curriculum changes, interactions with Damunhwa students, school duties, personal experiences. Th...

How did the complex concepts of psychoanalysis become popular in early twentieth-century Britain? This article examines the contribution of educator and psychoanalyst Susan Isaacs (1885-1948) to this process, as well as her role as a female expert in the intellectual and medical history of this period. Isaacs was one of the most influential British psychologists of the inter-war era, yet histor...

There is considerable irony in the current search for the causes of the rapid political changes sweeping the communist world after 1988. In retrospect, it is not hard to single out a number of macrosocietal trends that led eventually to regime change: economic stagnation and consumer deprivation, deeply eroded commitment to official ideology and the growth of widespread cynicism, the corruption...

Semiotic engineering is a semiotic theory of human–computer interaction, where interactive computer systems are viewed as one-shot messages sent from designers to users. Through the system’s interface, in many direct and indirect ways, designers are telling the users how they can, should, or must interact with the system in order to achieve a particular range of goals anticipated at design time...

The emergence of Knowledge Management (KM) as an important topic in management research is of particular relevance to information systems researchers as the functionalities based on information technologies play a critical role in shaping organizational efforts in this area. IS researchers, drawing on their familiarity with studying phenomena related to IT, therefore have the opportunity to be ...

We developed and offered a sequence of neuroscience courses geared toward changing the way non-science students interact with the sciences. Although we accepted students from all majors and at all class levels, our target population was first and second year students who were majoring in the fine arts or the humanities, or who had not yet declared a major. Our goal was to engage these students ...

Ethnopharmacologists are scientists and anthropologists that study indigenous medicines and healing practices, and who often develop new therapies and medicines for wider use. Ethnopharmacologists do fieldwork with indigenous peoples in traditional societies, where they encounter a wide range of cultural values and varying ideas about the nature of property relations. This poses difficulties fo...