Social Aspects category: 6049 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
This handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the core areas of philosophy of education combined with an up-to-date selection of the central themes. It includes 95 newly commissioned articles that focus on and advance key arguments; each essay incorporates essential background material serving...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964
This volume, the Frank Gerstein Lectures for 1963, is the second series of Invitation Lectures to be delivered at York University. The theme “Imagination and the University” was appropriate for, as President Murray Ross states in this Foreword, it is in its early years that a university is sufficiently...
Education Policy and Contemporary Theory
Implications for research
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This book aims to posit theory as a central component to the study of education and education policy. Providing clear, introductory entries into contemporary critical theories and their take up in education policy studies, the book offers a generative invitation to further reading, thought and exploration....
Participation, Facilitation, and Mediation
Children and Young People in Their Social Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Traditionally, children have been considered from a primarily developmental perspective, in need of education in order to achieve autonomy, growth, and eventually adulthood. Childhood studies have recently underlined an alternate way to look at children, starting from the consideration that children...
Education, Culture and the Singapore Developmental State
World-Soul Lost and Regained?
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
This book explores the role of education in the formation of the Singapore developmental state. The book provides a historical study of citizenship education in Singapore, whereby a comparative study of history, civics and social studies curricula, and the politics and policies that underpin them are examined.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in Newton and his influence. His thought, like that of Aristotle and every other great thinker, underwent development which contemporary scholars are seeking to understand more clearly than did their predecessors, awed as they were by the overwhelming...
Speak Freely
Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Why colleges and universities live or die by free speech
Free speech is under attack at colleges and universities today, as critics on and off campus challenge the value of freewheeling debate. In Speak Freely, Keith Whittington argues that universities must protect and encourage vigorous free...
by Edward Burnett Tylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
The first Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford, Edward B. Tylor, defined the term "culture" for modern readers in this groundbreaking work. Initially published in 1871, this classic two-volume study explores the full range of learned human behavior patterns in terms of the...
Global Perspectives in the Geography Curriculum
Reviewing the Moral Case for Geography
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
‘For geographers across the globe this book provides the arguments for a return to the teaching of geography and why they should reject the politicisation of the subject by education policy makers and politicians. Standish’s careful critique shows the necessity of a depoliticised geography curriculum...
Guanxi, Social Capital and School Choice in China
The Rise of Ritual Capital
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This book focuses on the use of guanxi (Chinese personal connections) in everyday urban life: in particular, how and why people develop different types of social capital in their guanxi networks and the role of guanxi in school choice. Guanxi takes on a special significance in Chinese societies,...
by Sophie Roux
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
The Mechanisation of Natural Philosophy is devoted to various aspects of the transformation of natural philosophy during the 16th and 17th centuries that is usually described as mechanical philosophy .
Drawing the border between the old Aristotelianism and the « new » mechanical philosophy...
Reductionism, Emergence and Levels of Reality
The Importance of Being Borderline
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Scientists have always attempted to explain the world in terms of a few unifying principles. In the fifth century B.C. Democritus boldly claimed that reality is simply a collection of indivisible and eternal parts or atoms. Over the centuries his doctrine has remained a landmark, and much progress...
God and the Multiverse
Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
In recent decades, scientific theories have postulated the existence of many universes beyond our own. The details and implications of these theories are hotly contested. Some philosophers argue that these scientific models count against the existence of God. Others, however, argue that if God exists,...
Friedrich Nietzsche
Reconciling Knowledge and Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
This book offers a succinct guide to Friedrich Nietzsche’s contributions to educational thought, placing them within the context of his overall philosophy and adding biographical background information that sheds light on his thinking. Topics discussed in detail include theories of knowledge and...