Over the past two decades in Australia, the field of gifted education has expanded considerably. The term ‘giftedness’ has effectively entered mainstream discourse. The field of gifted education, which nowadays operates as a compensatory function of mass education, is comprised of groups of people who broadly share in the concept of giftedness but contest, through discourse, its meanings and pr...

OBJECTIVE This study was aimed at analyzing the participation of a committee formed by representatives of the community in tuberculosis control based on a participatory management model. METHOD This is a Case Study involving a tuberculosis committee with data collected through semi-structured interviews conducted with nine individuals. The data, organized through the Association of Ideas Map ...

This article evaluates theories of the origins of sex differences in human behavior. It reviews the cross-cultural evidence on the behavior of women and men in nonindustrial societies, especially the activities that contribute to the sex-typed division of labor and patriarchy. To explain the cross-cultural findings, the authors consider social constructionism, evolutionary psychology, and their...

Essentialism and social constructionism theories have long explained the difficulties women experience as they aspire to higher managerial positions or enter science and technology fields. In the 1970s, the Women as Managers Scale (WAMS) sought to determine the extent to which males perceived females as being different from their social group. Given efforts to encourage women to consider IT car...

Constructionism places an emphasis on the process of creating personally meaningful artefacts in order to explore, test and extend understanding. To achieve this, learners engage in a creative process in which they develop skills, generate and evaluate ideas and share their knowledge and understanding through the artefacts that they create. This paper explores this process through a distributed...

While the past research work was focused on abstract concepts of judicial (legal) system and role court interpreter in it, this short article we give exact answer why is important to us with respect situation relativism social constructionism practical meaning main question. The definition term “financial risks” also given changing between his lawyer when representing interests participants leg...

The theory of ecological constructionism specifies the interaction framework that integrates information systems with the individual’s psychological operations that conform to group practices in communication and information exchange. Social and communicative interactions always involve these three psycho-biological systems of the individual: sensorimotor, cognitive, and affective. The model do...

This paper reflects on the use of socially constructed categories in the analysis of a failed attempt to introduce a standardised information system (ISIS) in the Irish League of Credit Unions. Beginning with a brief overview of the various definitions of social constructionism and a description of the ISIS project, the paper then outlines two previous interpretations of the failed implementati...