Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Education
Cross-Cultural Understandings
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Education: Cross-cultural, which is the sixth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses of race, ethnicity and gender in education. It provides an easily accessible, practical...
American Children in Chronic Poverty
Complex Risks, Benefit-Cost Analyses, and Untangling the Knot
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Why is it so difficult for some people to escape poverty? Cynthia Esposito Lamy answers that question in American Children in Chronic Poverty: Complex Risks, Benefit-Cost Analyses, and Untangling the Knot by describing the complex and interacting “knot” of problems that children face as they grow...
Inclusion, Disability and Culture
An Ethnographic Perspective Traversing Abilities and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
This book provides a global and social examination of how disabilities are played out and experienced around the world. It presents auto-ethnographic perspectives on disability across cultures, societies, and countries by documenting individuals’ personal narratives, thought processes and reflections.
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School Trouble
Identity, Power and Politics in Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
What is the trouble with schools and why should we want to make ‘school trouble’?
Schooling is implicated in the making of educational and social exclusions and inequalities as well as the making of particular sorts of students and teachers. For this reason schools are important sites of...
International Scholarships in Higher Education
Pathways to Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This book explores the multiple pathways from scholarships for international study to positive social change. Bringing together studies from academic researchers, evaluators and program designers and policymakers from Africa, Asia, Latin and North America, Europe, and Australia, the book compiles...
How to Build a Life in the Humanities
Meditations on the Academic Work-Life Balance
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
A follow-up to the popular Graduate Study for the 21st Century , this book seeks to expand professional development to include the personal aspects of daily lives in the humanities. How to Build a Life in the Humanities delves into pressing work-life issues such as post-tenure depression, academic life with children, aging, and adjuncting.
by C. Mantzavinos
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Explaining phenomena is one of the main activities in which scientists engage. This book proposes a new philosophical theory of scientific explanation by developing and defending the position of explanatory pluralism with the help of the notion of 'explanatory games'. Mantzavinos provides a descriptive...
Higher Education As a Public Good
Critical Perspectives on Theory, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Higher education is likely to involve the majority of people at some time in their lives in the twenty-first century. The main drivers of expansion in the previous century were a belief that widening access promotes social equity and the advance of knowledge as the main factor underpinning economic...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
As computers are increasingly integrated into the classroom, instructors must address a number of pressing ethical questions regarding online behavior, course design, cyberbullying, and student cyber behavior. Ethical Technology Use, Policy, and Reactions in Educational Settings provides state-of-the-art...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Memory work – the conscious remembering and study of individual and shared memories – is increasingly being acknowledged as a key pedagogical tool in working with children. Giving students opportunities and support to remember and study their selves as individuals and as communities allows them...
Popular Educational Classics
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The last half century has created deep tensions in how we analyze educational and social change. Educators, policymakers, and concerned citizens have had to cope with competing belief systems in evaluating and acting upon school policies and practices. This illuminating book untangles many of the...
Probing the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics
Physical, Philosophical and Logical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
This book provides a new original perspective on one of the most fascinating and important open questions in science: What is quantum mechanics talking about? Quantum theory is perhaps our best confirmed physical theory. However, in spite of its great empirical effectiveness and the subsequent technological...
Digital Inferno
Using Technology Consciously in Your Life and Work, 101 Ways to Survive and Thrive in a Hyperconnected World
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
How many times do you check something on the internet but find you are drifting aimlessly from one link to another? If you can’t not answer the phone when it rings, and you spend hours a week on social media, and you read your texts instead of kissing your loved one goodnight, and you don’t give...
by Catherine O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
In this innovative and cogent presentation of her concept of sustainable happiness, Catherine O’Brien outlines how the leading recommendations for transforming education can be integrated within a vision of well-being for all. Solution-focused, the book demonstrates how aspects of this vision are...