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Newspapers have been overestimating the ability of their readers to identify the meaning of such abbreviations as ICBM, AAUW, NAACP and even C of C, according to the results of a survey made by using samples of readers in St. Louis and journalism students at the State University of Iowa.

The following text aims at proposing an initial conceptual model for the European project REPRESENTATION. First, the global context and objectives of the project are recalled and the link with the preceding work is explicated. The precise cases that were considered in the different countries are presented, along with the methodology followed. Then, first results of the empirical study about pupils' representations of ICT are presented and discussed. A first cartography of pupils' representation is given. Perspectives for the subsequent work packages are shaped out, notably &bout the uses of concept mapping software.

Resilience has become a mainstream concept in social work theory and practice. While resilience has been well applied to individuals and families, there has been virtually no application to the workplace, a social system that is central to the lives of employed people and their families. This article extrapolates the literature on the resilience of the family system to the workplace system. A provisional model of workplace resilience is proposed, incorporating the dimensions of stressor, risk factors, protective factors, and outcomes. Implications for occupational social work practice and research are detailed.

AbstractA new theoretical perspective proposes that various survey response patterns occur partly because respondents shortcut the cognitive processes necessary for generating optimal answers and that these shortcuts are directed by cues in the questions.

El texto es la introducción al número que coordinamos. Presenta los diferentes artículos y lo enmarca en el GT de CLACSO que dirigimos como equipo. ; Fil: Riccono, Guido. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofia y Letras. Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina ; Fil: Perrotta, Daniela Vanesa. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofia y Letras. Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina ; Fil: Naidorf, Clara Judith. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofia y Letras. Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina