Social Aspects category: 6049 books
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
This book critically examines how race is constructed globally to intersect gender, class, sexuality, language ability and religion and answers some very important questions, like how does anti-black racism manifest itself within various contexts? Chapters in the book use the ‘Black and White paradigm’...
Innovation Contested
The Idea of Innovation Over the Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Innovation is everywhere. In the world of goods (technology), but also in the world of words: innovation is discussed in the scientific and technical literature, but also in the social sciences and humanities. Innovation is also a central idea in the popular imaginary, in the media and in public policy....
Gender Justice, Education and Equality
Creating Capabilities for Girls' and Women's Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This book reframes gender and education issues from a feminist and capabilities perspective through a multi-generational study of women as teachers. It explores how different understandings of gender, equality and education generate a variety of approaches with which to pursue gender equality in education....
Factories for learning
Making race, class and inequality in the neoliberal academy
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Over half of England’s secondary schools are now academies. While their impact on achievement has been debated, the social and cultural outcomes prompted by this neoliberal educational model has received less scrutiny. This book draws on original research based at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated...
Social Aesthetics and the School Environment
A Case Study of the Chivalric Ethos
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This book theorizes aesthetic classroom management through a hermeneutical approach with three fields of literature: history and philosophical foundations of chivalry, chivalry’s promulgation through the Victorian Age, and parallel issues of identity in twenty-first century teacher education. The...
by Robert A. Wilson, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
An examination of eugenic thinking past and present, from forced sterilization to prenatal screening, drawing on experience with those who survived eugenics.
Part science and part social movement, eugenics emerged in the late nineteenth century as a tool for human improvement. In response to...
American Dreams, Global Visions
Dialogic Teacher Research With Refugee and Immigrant Families
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This book presents the struggle for dialogue and understanding between teachers and refugee and immigrant families, in their own words. Forging a stronger connection between teachers, newcomers, and their families is one of the greatest challenges facing schools in the United States. Teachers need...
by Clive Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
By reconsidering the theme of isolation in the philosophy of technology, and by drawing upon recent developments in social ontology, Lawson provides an account of technology that will be of interest and value to those working in a variety of different fields. Technology and Isolation includes chapters...
The Schools of Utopia & Schools of To-morrow (Illustrated)
A Case for Inclusive Education from the Renowned Philosopher, Psychologist & Educational Reformer of 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
"The Schools of Utopia" and "Schools of To-morrow" argue that education and learning are social and interactive processes, and thus the school itself is a social institution through which social reform can and should take place. Students should thrive in an environment where they...
Challenges and Opportunities in Qualitative Research
Sharing Young Scholars’ Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
This book shares young scholars’ (current PhD students and those who completed their PhD between 2010 and 2015) experiences with conducting qualitative social research. Intended as a guide for newcomers to the field, it focuses on the practical issues encountered by qualitative researchers rather...
Investigación en ciencias sociales, humanidades y artes
Debates para su valoración
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 31, 2018
El problema de la validez en la investigación en las ciencias, el humanismo o el arte moderno se ha convertido, en el último siglo, en un problema que pasa de la solidez de los argumentos o la consistencia de la obra creada, a las configuraciones sociales de las redes en las que se gesta ese conocimiento....
Las Ciencias Sociales y Humanas en la Universidad de Antioquia
Avatares históricos y epistemológicos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 30, 2015
"Nuevos espacios para la institucionalización de las ciencias sociales se abrieron en el siglo xx en Colombia. La incorporación a la economía mundial generó modos de producción distintos y un nuevo dinamismo que se transmitió a la sociedad. El patrón social predominante se alteró con...
by Karl Marx
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
The Communist Manifesto (originally Manifesto of the Communist Party) is an 1848 political pamphlet by the German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London (in German as Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) just as the revolutions...
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency
Blockchain Technologies, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
What do you need to know about Bitcoin, other crytocurrencies and the technology behind it known as Blockchain technology. While the world has been surprised and amazed at the growth of bitcoin and other crytocurrencies the real story may be Blockchain technology. This technology could not only change...