What teaching practices foster inquiry and promote students to learn challenging subject matter in urban schools? Inquiry-based instruction and successful inquiry learning and teaching in projectbased science (PBS) were described in previous studies (Brown & Campione, 1990; Crawford, 1999; Krajcik, Blumenfeld, Marx, Bass, & Fredricks, 1998; Krajcik, Blumenfeld, Marx, & Solloway, 1994; Minstrell...

The dynamic nature and the geographic distribution of scientific resources, require flexible and adaptive computational environment where an in-silico experiment can be executed as a workflow of activities. In this paper, we propose a software environment to dynamically generate domain-specific, agent-based workflow engines from workflow specifications. The workflow engine is a proactive multia...

The state is an important, if sometimes overlooked, terrain of struggle for food activists. To explore the ways and extent to which just futures can be enacted through state, we present experience Brazil. We argue that activists should seek advance policies have broad social appeal weather political changes in administrations. Our argument informed by extensive review scholarship on corporate i...

This paper present a novel Dynamic Enactment Support to Specify and Execute Methods with the process model called Map. Maps describe the intentions that can be achieved in a process, strategies to achieve these intentions, and possible orders of intention achievements. When the user has selected the intention he wants to achieve along with the strategy he wants to use, the corresponding method ...