Editorial: Curriculum research and “glocal” potential

Globalization, "Glocal" Development, and Teachers' Work: A Research Agenda

The author discusses the evolution of ideas about the relationship between national and international development and educational change since World War II. He critically reviews relevant literature in comparative and international education, focusing on the concept of teachers' work. The analyses draw on theories of postcolonialism. The author argues that virtually without exception, studies o...

Overview of the epidemiologic research: Editorial Guidelines

Epidemiology can be considered as a very old science. For example, John Graunt, a statistician, published Natural and Political Observations. In the Bills of Mortality in 1662, he analyzed the mortality rolls in London before the Great Plague, presented one of the first life tables, and reported time trends for many diseases. He provided statist...

Curriculum Vitae and Research Plan

Glocal Multimedia Retrieval

Personal experience is intrinsically local while common knowledge is global. As a consequence, standard multimedia search engines suffer from a gap between local content and global concept, due to the diversity of context. Here we design a new multimedia retrieval system which integrates local diversity into an evolving global knowledge. A suitable personalization of global ontologies allows to...

Editorial : Consulting , Research and Consulting Research Steven

Consulting and scholarly research often have very different objectives with respect to advancements in practice, theory and observation (e.g., data collections). For example, consulting often emphasizes immediate benefits, specialized applications and a focus on only the key variables. Scholarly research often emphasizes replicability, generalizability and introducing previously uninvestigated ...