O Rigor (ou a Falta Dele) das Revistas Científicas

DELE: a Deaf-centred E-Learning Environment

We present a framework to address educational issues, especially focusing on deaf people, and present a preliminary model based on recent methodological findings. We started to develop multimedia learning environments based on Storytelling and Conceptual Metaphors, and adopt Cognitive Embodiment as a framework to address sensorially-critical subjects. We are using such methods to develop a Deaf...

Biblioteca: Revistas / Library: Journals

[Falsification, fabrication and plagiarism in scientific journals].

Nos últimos meses, comentários publicados em revistas científicas e divulgados pela imprensa mostraram duas modalidades de fraude na publicação de revistas científicas. Esses episódios mostram a fragilidade da análise de trabalhos científicos e, mais especificamente, da verificação da autoria. Ambos os episódios resultaram de iniciativas de investigadores e jornalistas. No primeiro deles, um tr...

Rigor or Rigor Mortis?

The past decade has witnessed a growing controversy over the status of formal approaches in political science, and especially the growing prominence of formal rational choice theory. Rational choice models have been an accepted part of the academic study of politics since the 1950s, but their popularity has grown signiacantly in recent years.1 Elite academic departments are now expected to incl...

A Sustentabilidade , O Desafio Das Políticas Sociais No Século 21

At the moment, we are facing great expectations of having more effective social politics to combat poverty. Once the inefficiency of the assistance model of the 90’s was recognized, governments and third sector organizations developed many innovative projects. They opened new ways for effective interventions aimed to mobilization of the communities and the development of the social capital.