In this article we explore the relationship of care of a group of health care workers in elderly care, through their descriptions of themselves and their work. We have an interest in how relationships of care may be explored and characterized in and across disparate vocational settings. This is a critical response to policy discourses of citizenship that are currently emerging for reemphasis in...

In recent years, Brazil had one of the fastest rates of growth in scientific production and currently holds the 13 th position in the international ranking in the number of published articles (PNPG, 2011). In addition, the human resources have experienced a significant increase. This growth is determined by many factors, which involve from increment of resources to factors related to the nation...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the integration of learning, continuous improvement and innovation theories as a basis for enhancing the education of e-entrepreneurs. Conceptual development of emerging interdisciplinary literature is combined with example analysis to develop the Circle of E-learning uniquely augmented by hermeneutics, action research and the creative destruction cycle o...

The belief that education is an engine of social equality a deeply seated and enduring feature the American political imagination. In time before public schools were ubiquitous, early proponents common schools, such as Horace Mann, argued widespread educational attainment would lead to more fair equal society (Massachusetts Board Education, 1848). recently inaugurated Biden administration invok...

A C S s I write this we are just entering the holiday season; you will e reading this in the midst of the holidays. This is traditionally time when thoughts become more philosophical than scienific. It often engenders contemplation of the actual importance f material things and what brings real happiness. I recently ad an interaction with a patient and his family that caused me o pause and cons...

Cities are faced with many challenges, in particular in relation to the mobility of people and the structure of land-use. Parking management, which makes the link between the fields of urban planning and transportation, is one of the crucial ways to meet these challenges. However, parking studies are a poorly covered area in transportation research. The main barrier to study parking is parking ...

A qualitative study aimed to understand how is configured the care for women in situation of violence, under the sight of professionals. Data was collected by interviews with seven key-informants, and it was analyzed by the method of interpretation of meanings. In the central theme category: auto eco-organizer system of institutions, two meaning nucleus were identified: Care axis and Institutio...

Despite their interest in why people do what they do, psychologists typically overlook interest itself as a facet of human motivation and emotion. In recent years, however, researchers from diverse areas of psychology have turned their attention to the role of interest in learning, motivation, and development. This article reviews the emerging body of work on the psychology of interest, with an...

Despite its importance in the organizational behavior literature, person– organization (P–O) fit remains an elusive construct. One reason for this is the lack of research about organizational members’ own sense of their P–O fit. In this paper we report an empirical study that explored organizational members’ own sense of fit using storytelling and causal mapping techniques. The results suggest ...

The article aims to assess the contribution of slavery in the socio-economic structure of the Delhi Sultanate. It delineates the socio-economic life of the slaves and attempts to address a fundamental question pertaining to nature of the Sultanate society. It takes into account the classical debate about the distinction between ‘slave society’ and a ‘society with slaves’ and applies it on the D...