News tagged with academic knowledge
Foreign children take at least six years to learn the language used in school
There are now more and more foreign children in the classroom, and many of them speak a different language to that of their sociolinguistic environment. A study by the University of Gerona has assessed the ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Exploding the ivory tower myth
When people think about how academia links with external organisations they often think in terms of commercialisation of research. But the results of a large-scale survey of academics across all disciplines ...
May 17, 2011 |
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Google -- an engine of knowledge creation?
Search engines like Google have become part of everyday life, not least in the academic context. But if knowledge is power, then search engines themselves are gaining ground as power nodes in their own right. Academic users ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 26, 2010 |
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MU Study Finds Connection Between Evolution, Classroom Learning
Over thousands of years, humans have evolved to naturally understand things like facial expressions and social interactions. But a University of Missouri researcher has found there is an ever-widening gap between what humans ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 08, 2009 |
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