Social Aspects category: 6049 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Parts one and two of this volume present the theoretical lenses used to study the social contexts of education. These include long-established foundations disciplines such as sociology of education and philosophy of education as well as newer theoretical perspectives such as critical race theory,...
Philosophical Perspectives on Social Cohesion
New Directions for Educational Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
What would the civic relationship between citizens in a socially cohesive society look like? What models might we use to educate young people to support developing these bonds? Do these different models have different implications for how we structure the bonds that support a civic relationship?
Philosophical...
Critical Voices in Teacher Education
Teaching for Social Justice in Conservative Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
We live in dangerous times when educational policies and practices are debated largely in terms of how they fit with the needs of the free market. This volume is a collection of writing by teacher-educators that draws on their unique biographies, experiences and perspectives to denounce these misguided...
The Socially Just School
Making Space for Youth to Speak Back
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book explores schools and how they can function as social institutions that advance the interests and life chances of all young people, especially those who are already the most marginalized and at an educational disadvantage. Social justice is a key theme as the book examines the needs of youth,...
Miseducation
Inequality, education and the working classes
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
In this book Diane Reay, herself working class turned Cambridge professor, brings Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden’s pioneering Education and the Working Class from 1962 up to date for the 21st century. Drawing on over 500 interviews, the book, part of the 21st Century Standpoints series published...
Domestic Violence and Children Mental Health
Ecological Perspectives to Children Exposure to Domestic Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Social Pedagogy / Social Work, grade: A, University of Botswana (Social Sciences), course: Master of Social Work, language: English, abstract: The recent interest in children's exposure to domestic violence (DV) has brought about the argument concerning...
What's the Buzz?
A Social Skills Enrichment Programme for Primary Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Some children, for all manner of reasons, struggle to make friends and fit in socially. What’s the Buzz? is a unique sixteen-lesson social skills enrichment programme designed to explicitly teach children how to think and relate to others in social situations.
This lively, highly practical...
Constructing Methodology for Qualitative Research
Researching Education and Social Practices
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
This book explores the webs of vulnerability in methodological decision-making that illustrate the deceptive strength of qualitative research. Each chapter will resonate with readers differently as they read themselves into the tensions and tangles of qualitative research when confronted with the...
Money Machines
Electronic Financial Technologies, Distancing, and Responsibility in Global Finance
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
While we have become increasingly vulnerable to the ebb and flow of global finance, most of us know very little about it. This book focuses on the role of technology in global finance and reflects on the ethical and societal meaning and impact of financial information and communication technologies...
by Amanda Keddie
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Educating for Diversity and Social Justice foregrounds the personal stories of educators who are engaging the space of schooling as a site of possibility for realizing the goals of social justice. It is a book inspired by a vision of education as a practice of freedom where young people – especially...
by Elisha Babad
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
Teachers often find that their training has not provided them with sufficient knowledge and understanding about underlying social forces and processes in their classrooms. This new book addresses this gap by focusing on the social psychology of the classroom, providing the relevant social psychological knowledge and facilitating the application of
Social Epistemology and Technology
Toward Public Self-Awareness Regarding Technological Mediation
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
How has technology changed what it means to be human and to be a member of a human society? How has technology changed the way we acquire knowledge of the world we inhabit? In light of these changes and the direction we are moving, how should the pursuit of knowledge be organized? Social Epistemology...
Experiencing Nature
Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
This volume, honoring the renowned historian of science, Allen G Debus, explores ideas of science - `experiences of nature' - from within a historiographical tradition that Debus has done much to define. As his work shows, the sciences do not develop exclusively as a result of a progressive and inexorable...
Manufacturing Hope and Despair
The School and Kin Support Networks of U.S.-Mexican Youth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Relying on a wealth of ethnographic and statistical data, this groundbreaking volume documents the many constraints and social forces that prevent Mexican-origin adolescents from constructing the kinds of networks that provide access to important forms of social support. Special attention is paid...