The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the postponement of 2020 Olympic Games (OG) Tokyo, producing numerous effects on participating athletes, especially those from developing countries. objective this study was to investigate and understand impact Tokyo OG, due pandemic, Brazilian athletes. epistemology followed social constructionism. methodology included semi-directed interviews with 11 athletes...

Inspired by the concept of bricolage brought Seymour Papert to education, this work articulated a theoretical and methodological set composed Constructionism, Inquiry-based Science Teaching Augmented Reality, aiming achieve Scientific Literacy indicators. This articulation was concretized in biology didactic planning, experienced second year high school public school. The search for scientific ...

Purpose – Describes the basic premises of three metatheories that represent important or emerging perspectives on information seeking, retrieval and knowledge formation in information science: constructivism, collectivism, and constructionism. Design/methodology/approach – Presents a literature-based conceptual analysis. Pinpoints the differences between the positions in their conceptions of la...

In the world of education, the traditional teacher-centric pedagogy is often supported by the traditional lecture format. This methodology however, may not be the best way to assist students to learn in a computer science classroom. We have made different activities in high school to understand students’ difficulties to learn the Logo programming language. This paper describes the activities ma...

In the MIT LEGO Robot Design Competition , students build robots that interact with their environment—the contest playing field, the game objects, and the opponent robot or robots—in particular ways. The robots thus become part of a complex system of interactions that define their existence. In this paper I explore the biases that students bring to the task of designing their robots. Of particu...

Ken Plummer’s life work has had a major impact on the development of sociology sexuality. While being firmly rooted in and committed to traditions pragmatism symbolic interactionism – which chimes nicely with his philosophical stance critical humanism Plummer openly engaged dialogue many theoretical perspectives. This renders rich resource for researchers working sexualities from within differe...

Abstract Drawing upon Accelerator Rap – the course that won 2020 Academy of Management Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award this chapter explores constructionism before describing rationale and process course. It then suggests ways to bring a constructionist approach structure content other entrepreneurship courses order foster greater diversity across entrepreneurial ecosystem. is des...

This paper was presented at the Conference on Strategies of Longitudinal Research on Drug Use, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1976. The conference proceedings were supposed to be published by Denise Kandel who organized the conference, but that didn’t happen. In 1989, after more than a decade of waiting, I decided to revise the paper and see it into print, but after some minor editing I stopped, feelin...

Among internet content produced by users, are memes. Facebook and WhatsApp have become an integral part of society in this age social media where the young generation older adults engage interaction. These memes, sometimes, carry wrong perceptions messages that can create false consciousness among people. The notion gender is culturally socially constructed. Social sites reinforced concept ster...