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Erratic behavior and erratic reasoning often have a pejorative sense; between the Wandering Jew, named Aasvero or Ahasverus, and the erratic thought we find the same kind of punishment. «Errare humanum est» is also part of common sense: human behavior is considered erratic by nature. Kant describes man with a significant metaphor: he is a log. The error has however a third categorization: it is no longer a fault or a fatality, but also functionality. To philosophers or travelers, error and wander became synonymous with independence, coherence and method. In areas as different as critical edition, literary historiography or creative writing, mistake is considered a strategy for a good «methodology», word that means, etymologically, a knowledge (-logos) accomplished by (meta-) the way (-odos-). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an interdisciplinary reflection on the relationship between social network analysis, namely egonetworks, and the funds of knowledge of researchers and teachers of higher education. It is argued that the creation of knowledge and its dissemination can be conceived as and through translation processes. These processes exist through and by means of the funds of knowledge, which can be measured and described, in its structure and content, through personal knowledge networks. Egonetworks can, thus, be defined as epistemic conduits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims at studying the connections between the discipline of Literary History and a field of enquiry whose epistemological, ideological and methodological frameworks were being reconfigured throughout the 1980s, namely Francophone Studies. The establishment of this branch of studies has aroused a series of fruitful, important debates regarding the future of literary French studies, whose issues have clearly crossed French borders - and way beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cet article présente les grandes orientations et les contextes d'un projet de recherche en cours, un projet qui fait référence à la nature de l'impact social et les fonctions du musée dans un contexte profondément de collaboration. Il commence par présenter le contexte et les enjeux du projet, tenant compte également des options méthodologiques et propose une discussion sur les concepts clés. Puisant dans les traditions de recherche-action et de la participation interactive, ce projet à pour champ d'action les musées de Porto et comme des acteurs clés, en particulier, les professionnels qui se consacrent aux travaux de la médiation avec le public. Vise à promouvoir une collaboration durable entre les professionnels de musées; à savoir, la proposition concerne principalement le développement d'un espace collaboratif et une communauté de pratique qui permet des changements de la pensée critique et créative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]