Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Social Linguistics and Literacies
Ideology in Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2007
This fully-updated new edition engages with topics such as orality and literacy, the history of literacy, the uses and abuses of literacy in that history, the analysis of language as cultural communication, and social theories of mind and meaning, among many other topics. It represents the most current...
by John Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
We live in a time when those who wield unrestrained power believe they have the inalienable right to determine the destiny, nature and shape of social institutions like schools. Critical Pedagogy for Social Justice challenges this arrogance by showing how teachers, students, parents, communities,...
by Don Ross, Jessica C Flack, Doug Erwin
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Essays from a range of disciplinary perspectives show the central role that cooperation plays in structuring our world.
This collection reports on the latest research on an increasingly pivotal issue for evolutionary biology: cooperation. The chapters are written from a variety of disciplinary...
Creating Scientific Controversies
Uncertainty and Bias in Science and Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
For decades, cigarette companies helped to promote the impression that there was no scientific consensus concerning the safety of their product. The appearance of controversy, however, was misleading, designed to confuse the public and to protect industry interests. Created scientific controversies...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
In the 1980s, philosophical, historical and social studies of science underwent a change which later evolved into a turn to practice. Analysts of science were asked to pay attention to scientific practices in meticulous detail and along multiple dimensions, including the material, social and psychological....
digitalSTS
A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences are grappling with how best to study virtual environments, use computational tools in their research, and engage audiences with their results. Classic work in science and technology studies (STS) has played a central role in...
Knowledge and the Future of the Curriculum
International Studies in Social Realism
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
This collection explores why powerful knowledge matters for social justice and discusses its implications for curriculum and pedagogy. The contributors argue that the purpose of education is to provide all students with access to powerful knowledge so that they acquire the means to move beyond their experiences and enhance their lives.
Gamification for Human Factors Integration
Social, Education, and Psychological Issues
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
With the popularity and ease-of-access to internet technologies, especially social networking, a number of human-centered issues has developed including internet addiction and cyber bullying. In an effort to encourage positive behavior, it is believed that applying gaming principles to non-gaming environments...
Citizenship Education and Migrant Youth in China
Pathways to the Urban Underclass
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
In East Asian economies such as China, recent mass rural-urban migration has created a new urban underclass, as have their children. However, their inclusion in urban public schools is a surprisingly slow process, and youth identities in newly industrialized countries remain largely neglected. Faced...
Educating for Insurgency
The Roles of Young People in Schools of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
A manifesto for today’s broken schools.
Desegregation has failed. Schools filled with black and brown students have become plantations of social control, where the policing of behavior trumps the expanding of minds. Radical teachers and organizers in American public schools must help young...
Deschooling the Imagination
Critical Thought as Social Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
"Deschooling the Imagination: Critical Thought as Social Practice" is, first, a book that looks at what it means to be actively engaged in developing a critical/creative mindset against the prevailing ideology of our public schools. Second, it is a book about the social/cultural relationship...
Learning from the Ground Up
Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
The dynamics, politics, and richness of knowledge production in social movements and social activist contexts are often overlooked. This book contends that some of the most radical critiques and understandings about dominant ideologies and power structures, and visions of social change, have emerged from those spaces.
Citizenship, Education and Social Conflict
Israeli Political Education in Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
This volume provides new perspectives into the challenges of citizenship education in the age of globalization and in the context of multicultural and conflict-ridden societies. It calls on us to rethink the accepted liberal and national discourses that have long dominated the conceptualization and...
Sciences from Below
Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more productively linked to social justice projects around...