Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Youth, Arts, and Education
Reassembling Subjectivity through Affect
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
How are the arts important in young people’s lives? Youth, Arts and Education offers a groundbreaking theory of arts education. Anna Hickey-Moody explores how the arts are ways of belonging, resisting, being governed and being heard.
Through examples from the United Kingdom and Australia,...
The Speech of the Grail
A Journey toward Speaking that Heals & Transforms
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Speech of the Grail, storyteller and ceremonialist Linda Sussman explores a new way to speak, one that heals and transforms. She takes for her guide Wolfram von Eschenbachs epic tale of the Grail, showing how it depicts a path of initiation toward healing speechto doing the truth in word and action....
Vulnerability in Technological Cultures
New Directions in Research and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Analysis and case studies explore the concept of vulnerability, offering a novel and broader approach to understanding the risks and benefits of science and technology.
Novel technologies and scientific advancements offer not only opportunities but risks. Technological systems are vulnerable...
Practicing Critical Pedagogy
The Influences of Joe L. Kincheloe
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This edited text recaptures many of Joe L. Kincheloe’s national and international influences. An advocate and a scholar in the social, historical, and philosophical foundations of education, he dedicated his professional life to his vision of critical pedagogy. The authors in this volume found...
by CLEBERSON EDUARDO DA COSTA
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
O Homem e A Única Criatura Que, Sendo da especie "homo sapiens", Nao Traz also UMA pré-determinação e / ou UMA Natureza Completa e terminou los si MESMO e, conseguinte POR, Nao Ser Realizado, devido a UMA Falta de hum Educação de Qualidade, ELE PODE also Jogar-se de: Não E Capaz de "ser Tudo...
by Rudolf Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
Feeling in relationship to willing. The nine aspects of the human being as a willing being. The expression of will as instinct in the physical body, drive in the etheric body, desire in the astral body; the absorption of will into the I as motive in the soul; as wish in Spirit Self, intent in Life Spirit...
by Donald J Nicolson
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
This book empirically examines academic conferences in the social sciences, and explores the purpose and value of people interested in the social sciences attending and presenting at national and international academic conferences. Using a highly original structure and style, the book considers the...
by Bertrand Russell
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Bertrand Russell was renowned for his provocative views on education. Considered an educational innovator, Russell attempted to create the perfect learning institution. Despite the failure of this practical vision, it did not stop him from continuing to strive towards inventing and arguing for a system...
by Dr Marion O'Donnell, Professor Richard Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Maria Montessori's work and thinking form a unique legacy to current educational thinking and practice. In this text, Marion O'Donnell explores the key themes of her philosophy of education and explores the relevance of Montessori practices today.
In a thorough survey and synthesis of Montessori's...
Leading for Change
Race, intimacy and leadership on divided university campuses
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
This book offers new theoretical ground for thinking about, and transforming, leadership and higher education worldwide. Through an examination of the construct of intimacy and ‘nearness’, including emotional, spiritual, psychic, intellectual, and physical closeness, Jonathan Jansen demonstrates...
Children, Home and School
Regulation, Autonomy or Connection?
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
In contemporary western societies, there are increasing emphases on children being the responsibility of their parents, contained within the home, and on their compartmentalisation into separate and protected organised educational settings. Thus 'home' and 'school' form a crucial part of children's...
Critical Approaches to Care
Understanding Caring Relations, Identities and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
What does ‘care’ mean in contemporary society? How are caring relationships practised in different contexts? What resources do individuals and collectives draw upon in order to care for, care with and care about themselves and others? How do such relationships and practices relate to broader social...
Interrogating the Anthropocene
Ecology, Aesthetics, Pedagogy, and the Future in Question
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
This volume weaves together a variety of perspectives aimed at confronting a spectrum of ethico-political global challenges arising in the Anthropocene which affect the future of life on planet earth. In this book, the authors offer a multi-faceted approach to address the consequences of its imaginary...
Movement and Experimentation in Young Children's Learning
Deleuze and Guattari in Early Childhood Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
In contemporary educational contexts young children and learning are tamed, predicted, supervised, controlled and evaluated according to predetermined standards. Contesting such intense governing of the learning child, this book argues that the challenge to practice and research is to find ways of...