Social Aspects category: 6049 books
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Going to School with a Thousand Kids
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
**A New York Times Bestseller**
“May be the most revealing depiction of the American contemporary classroom that we have to date." —Garret Keizer, The New York Times Book Review
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Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, in pursuit of the realities of American public education,...
Savage Inequalities
Children in America's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An impassioned book, laced with anger and indignation, about how our public education system scorns so many of our children.”—The New York Times Book Review
In 1988, Jonathan Kozol set off to spend time with children in the American public education system....
The Dumbest Generation
How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future(Or, Don 't Trust Anyone Under 30)
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings.
The Dumbest Generation is a dire report on the intellectual...
Enlightenment Now
The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR
"My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates
If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier...
Denialism
How Irrational Thinking Harms the Planet and Threatens Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
In this provocative and headline-making book, Michael Specter confronts the widespread fear of science and its terrible toll on individuals and the planet.
In Denialism, New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter reveals that Americans have come to mistrust institutions and especially the institution...
by Amir Aczel
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The renowned science writer, mathematician, and bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem masterfully refutes the overreaching claims the "New Atheists," providing millions of educated believers with a clear, engaging explanation of what science really says, how there's still much space...
by Bobbi Contreras
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Document from the year 2016 in the subject Social Pedagogy / Social Work, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: In an enforcement-only immigration system, the 601 and 601a waiver policies are a light in the dark for those facing deportation. These policies allow immigrants to return from their...
Immigration and the Challenge of Education
A Social Drama Analysis in South Central Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Analyzes a community from the standpoint of immigrant mothers in South Central Los Angeles who were concerned about the education of their children and the violence in their communities. Written in Spanish and English, the text brings together the women's observations as they put into action their developing political consciousness.
Reality Check
How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
A thought-provoking look at science denialism “for popular science readers who want better to be able to explain and defend science and scientific methods to others” (Library Journal).
The battles over evolution, climate change, childhood vaccinations, and the causes of AIDS, alternative...
by Ethan Zuckerman
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
A rousing call to action for those who would be citizens of the world—online and off.
We live in an age of connection, one that is accelerated by the Internet. This increasingly ubiquitous, immensely powerful technology often leads us to assume that as the number of people online grows, it...
Strong Spirits, Kind Hearts
Helping Students Develop Inner Strength, Resilience, and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Strong Spirits, Kind Hearts is the first practical teacher resource to provide comprehensive coverage of all aspects of developing strong spirits and caring young people. It is focused on middle years’ students but most lessons can be adapted for older and younger students as well. This resource...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Using Film to Understand Childhood and Practice is an innovative and lively text which allows complex and challenging issues within childhood studies to be explored using the medium of filmed drama. By utilising popular culture, this book provides accessible narratives to students and lecturers needing...
Conscientious Objections
Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
In a series of feisty and ultimately hopeful essays, one of America's sharpest social critics casts a shrewd eye over contemporary culture to reveal the worst -- and the best -- of our habits of discourse, tendencies in education, and obsessions with technological novelty. Readers will find themselves...
by George Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
A thought-provoking examination of the complex teacher-student relationship, from one of the great minds of the modern literary world
Based on George Steiner’s extensive experience as a teacher, Lessons of the Masters is a passionate examination of the “profession of the professor.” He...