Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Sexuality, Gender and Schooling
Shifting Agendas in Social Learning
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
The sexuality of young people arouses controversy and remains a source of concern for parents, teachers, policy-makers and politicians. But what young people really think about sexuality and gender and how these issues impact upon their lives is often marginalized or overlooked.
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by Ramon Flecha (Ed.)
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
This monograph analyses and describes successful educational actions with a specific focus on vulnerable groups (i.e. youth, migrants, cultural groups e.g. Roma, women, and people with disabilities). Concrete data that shows success in school performance in subject matters such as math or language...
Niklas Luhmann
Education as a Social System
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This book provides an insight into the ideas of one of the world’s greatest sociologists: Niklas Luhmann. It explains, in clear and concise language, the basic concepts of Social Systems Theory and their application to the specific case of the Education System, which was considered by Luhmann as...
Critical Race, Feminism, and Education
A Social Justice Model
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Critical Race, Feminism, and Education: A Social Justice Model provides a transformative next step in the evolution of critical race and Black feminist scholarship. Focusing on praxis, the relationship between the construction of race, class, and gender categories and social justice outcomes is analyzed....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Education cannot be understood today without recognizing that nearly all educational policies and practices are strongly influenced by an increasingly integrated international economy. Reforms in one country have significant effects in others, just as immigration and population tides from one area...
Being Bad
My Baby Brother and the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Being Bad will change the way you think about the social and academic worlds of Black boys. In a poignant and harrowing journey from systems of education to systems of criminal justice, the author follows her brother, Chris, who has been designated a “bad kid” by his school, a “person...
Making Sense of Education Policy
Studies in the Sociology and Politics of Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2002
`This book is a very worthwhile read for teachers, student teachers and teacher educators. It would be encouraging if politically based policy makers were to digest its contents also' - Citizenship, Social and Economics Education
`I recommend this book as an enjoyable, thought provoking and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
The servicelearning field is 50 years old in the United States. Much has been developed over that time in the fields of K12 schooling, higher education, and community organizations. People who have been involved in the movement have worked individually and collaboratively to include servicelearning as...
Education, Work and Social Change
Young People and Marginalization in Post-Industrial Britain
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Drawing on a longitudinal study of the lives of NEET young people, this book looks beyond dominant discourses on youth unemployment to provide a rich, detailed account of young people's experiences of participation and non-participation on the margins of education and employment, highlighting the policy implications of this research.
Building Resilience of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children in China
Power, Politics, Participation, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
The past two decades have seen exponential growth of urbanisation and migration in China. Emerging from this growth is a population of floating and left-behind children which is estimated to be approaching 100 million. Due to their increasing risks of undesirable educational and social, as well as...
Critical Literacy, Schooling, and Social Justice
The Selected Works of Allan Luke
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
In the World Library of Educationalists series, international scholars themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/or practical contributions – so the world can read...
Political Biology
Science and Social Values in Human Heredity from Eugenics to Epigenetics
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This book explores the socio-political implications of human heredity from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present postgenomic moment. It addresses three main phases in the politicization of heredity: the peak of radical eugenics (1900-1945), characterized by an aggressive ethos of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Nothing seems more far removed from the visceral, bodily experience of emotions than the cold, rational technology of the Internet. But as this collection shows, the internet and emotions intersect in interesting and surprising ways. Internet and Emotions is the fruit of an interdisciplinary collaboration...
Lifelong Learning Participation in a Changing Policy Context
An Interdisciplinary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Drawing on the role of individuals, education and training providers and countries' social policy actions, and borrowing insights from psychology, sociology and economics, this book works towards an interdisciplinary theory of adult lifelong learning participation. It explores the fragmented evidence...