Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Moral Education
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
This volume, based on an interdisciplinary conference of psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, and social scientists, explores a topic of vital importance today—moral education. The book is organized around four questions: the nature and scope of moral education, the problem of ethical pluralism,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This edited collection advances the call for continued multicultural dialogues within education. Dialogue and education are the two most essential tools that can help tackle some of the biggest problems we are facing across the globe, including fanaticism, chauvinistic nationalism, religious fundamentalism...
K–12 Education as a Hermeneutic Adventurous Endeavor
Toward an Educational Way of Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Considering the role of compulsory mass education and schooling in a democratic society, this book introduces an alternative vision for K-12 education as an "adventurous endeavour." Grounded in a strong theoretical framework, Yosef-Hassidim reveals the negative impact of instrumentalization...
The Retreat from Public Education
Global and Israeli Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2009
In recent decades the pendulum is swinging away from the idea and ideals of public education, and a new ethos increasingly takes over the shrinking public space of education. In the 1980s markets were elevated to social and economic icons, becoming a new secular faith. Privatizing public education...
Higher Education and Social Justice
The Transformative Potential of University Teaching and the Power of Educational Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2018
This book demonstrates how the pedagogical decision making of university academics can be shaped by engagement with an educational philosophy known as “relationship-centred education”. Beginning with critical analysis of concepts such as student engagement, student satisfaction, and student-centred...
by George J. Sefa Dei
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
This book grounds particular struggles at the curious interface of skin, body, psyche, hegemonies and politics. Specifically, it adds to current [re]theorizations of Blackness, anti-Blackness and Black solidarities, through anti-colonial and decolonial prisms. The discussion challenges the reductionism...
Navigating Technomedia
Caught in the Web
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007
From email to video and text messaging, so much of our present social life depends on media technologies. Today it is clearer than ever that these not only play an active part in our everyday lives, but constitute our increasingly global realities. Caught in the Web argues for a new approach to media...
The Impact of Critical Rationalism
Expanding the Popperian Legacy through the Works of Ian C. Jarvie
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
As a student and disciple of Karl Popper and longtime managing editor of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ian C. Jarvie extended the notion of Critical Rationalism to be useful in anthropology, aesthetics, film studies, and various social sciences. In this Festschrift, contributors from a range...
Education in Times of Environmental Crises
Teaching Children to Be Agents of Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The core assumption of this book is the interconnectedness of humans and nature, and that the future of the planet depends on humans’ recognition and care for this interconnectedness. This comprehensive resource supports the work of pre-service and practicing elementary teachers as they teach their...
Logics of Socialist Education
Engaging with Crisis, Insecurity and Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
For some, socialism is a potent way of achieving economic, political and social transformations in the twenty-first century, while others find the very term socialism outdated. This book engages readers in a discussion about the viability of socialist views on education and identifies the capacity...
Inclusive Physical Activities
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Increasing numbers of children and adolescents internationally are being diagnosed with secondary health problems (e.g., overweightobesity, diabetes, asthma, anxiety, etc.) due in part, or at least related to, a lack of physical activity. Children and adolescents with various forms of special needs (for...
by David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
How is knowledge produced and used in cyberspace? David Hakken - a key figure in the anthropology of science and technology studies - approaches the study of cyberculture through the venue of knowledge production, drawing on critical theory from anthropology, philosophy and informatics (computer science)...
Global Teaching
Southern Perspectives on Teachers Working with Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
At a time when social, cultural and linguistic diversity has become a characteristic of education systems around the world, this timely text considers how teacher education is responding to these developments in the context of increased mobilities within and across national boundaries. This collection...
Material Agency
Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Thus far an ‘agent’ in the social sciences has always meant someone whose actions bring about change. In this volume, the editors challenge this position and examine the possibility that agency is not a solely human property. Instead, this collection of archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists...