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Considering the current scientific education crisis, teachers' capacity to transform their practice in order to improve learning achievement seems fundamental. The traditional programs of continuous professional development, ...

The ongoing discussions of a city, where potential bidders for the concessions of on-street and off-street parking questioned separate bids procedures recalled our attention; in addition, willing to satisfy public demands ...

Results of a microanalysis of the psychotherapeutic conversation in change and stuck episodes are presented. For the comparison of the verbal communication, the Therapeutic Activity Coding System was applied to a sample ...

This paper describes oral narratives across schooling, considering syntactic complexity and the role of clause package (Katzenberger, 2004) in the narrative sequence (Adam, 1999). Results obtained from a sample of 259 ...

Research on peer aggression (bullying) places emphasis on individual characteristics of aggressors and victims, and scarcely on context variables. This article provides evidence of classroom climate acting as predictor of ...

I use variation in coffee production to measure changes in local economic conditions, which proxy for the value of children's time. I test how this short-term variation affects child labor and schooling in Brazilian coffee ...

This study constitutes a preliminary research about oral argumentation in classrooms. It's based on an 11th grade Spanish language and communication lesson in private subsidized schools in the city of Valparaiso, Chile. ...

In this article the theoretical framework for a written comprehension theory, named the Communicability Theory, is presented. This theoretical conception is not a totally new one; it is based on previous theoretical ...

This paper examines the central elements that marked the first half of Salvador Allende's administration, the successes and failures which characterized the development of government policy already in its first year. So ...