Considering that both Western Science and Local Knowledge Systems share a common ground-observations of the natural world-the dialogue between them should not only be possible, but fruitful. Local communities whose livelihoods ...

This paper arises from the possibility of a theoretical dialogue between the socio-cognitive perspectives of knowledge organization and the Bakhtinian concepts on conscience, responsible act, responsive understanding, and ...

In recent decades, and on the basis of what is called the "archival turn", different theoretical and methodological reflections have been made about the archives, their origins, configurations and uses. On the one hand, ...

A fundamental requirement of collaborative dialogue formal systems is ensuring both that all the relevant information will be exposed and also irrelevancies will be avoided. The challenge is to fulfill this requirement in ...

This essay highlights that the external evaluations affect the autonomy of the schools and teachers in relation to the organization of the pedagogical work, even though the LDB assures the pedagogical autonomy regarding ...

The discussion in the Theaetetus is about the nature of knowledge, and although the dialogue does not deal directly with the nature of memory, this problem is present throughout the discussion. So, it seems that there is ...

Automating customer complaints processing is a major issue in the context of knowledge management technologies for most companies nowadays. Automated decision-support systems are important for complaint processing, integrating ...