Social Aspects category: 6049 books
by Derek Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
In an effort to address the problems confronting the American education system, the Obama administration has issued structural and systematic reforms such as Race to the Top. These initiatives introduce new statistics and accountability systems to gauge what constitutes "good" teaching,...
Culture in School Learning
Revealing the Deep Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Challenging educators to better understand themselves and their students, this text presents a powerful process for developing a teaching perspective that embraces the centrality of culture in school learning. The six-part process covers examining culture, personalizing culture, inquiring about students'...
Slavoj Žižek
A Žižekian Gaze at Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Žižek demands we take a long, hard look at the painful reality of education in contemporary capitalist society, and to actively seek out its ‘trouble in paradise’: Why is it education is supposedly failing to meet the demands of our society? Why is it there are record levels of stress for teachers?...
Explanation in Biology
An Enquiry into the Diversity of Explanatory Patterns in the Life Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Patterns of explanation in biology have long been recognized as different from those deployed in other scientific disciplines, especially that of physics. Celebrating the diversity of interpretative models found in biology, this volume details their varying types as well as explaining their relationships...
Mapping Multiple Literacies
An Introduction to Deleuzian Literacy Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Mapping
Multiple Literacies
brings together the latest theory and research in the fields of literacy study
and European philosophy, Multiple Literacies Theory (MLT) and the philosophical
work of Gilles Deleuze. It frames the process of becoming literate as a fluid
process involving multiple modes...
Refocusing the Self in Higher Education
A Phenomenological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
In higher education literature, theories of learning and development have largely been adapted from psychology to the exclusion of basic insights from philosophy. This volume addresses the gaps in higher education’s theoretical base created by this inattention to philosophy and reflects on the significance...
by Lan Gao
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Educational researchers have long been concerned about the factors that influence the patterns of attendance in higher education and the extent to which higher education has been accessible to all students regardless of their socioeconomic status. Extensive research has indicated that a variety of...
Natural Categories and Human Kinds
Classification in the Natural and Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The notion of 'natural kinds' has been central to contemporary discussions of metaphysics and philosophy of science. Although explicitly articulated by nineteenth-century philosophers like Mill, Whewell and Venn, it has a much older history dating back to Plato and Aristotle. In recent years, essentialism...
Re-Thinking Time at the Interface of Physics and Philosophy
The Forgotten Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
The current volume of the Parmenides Series “On Thinking” addresses our deepest and most personal experience of the world, the experience of “the present,” from a modern perspective combining physics and philosophy. Many prominent researchers have contributed articles to the volume, in which...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This book enriches our views on representation and deepens our understanding of its different aspects. It arises out of several years of dialog between the editors and the authors, an interdisciplinary team of highly experienced researchers, and it reflects the best contemporary view of representation...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
John von Neumann (1903-1957) was undoubtedly one of the scientific geniuses of the 20th century. The main fields to which he contributed include various disciplines of pure and applied mathematics, mathematical and theoretical physics, logic, theoretical computer science, and computer architecture....
Learning in School-University Partnership
Sociocultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
This volume looks at school-university partnerships from sociocultural perspectives of learning that view participation in social practice as fundamental to the process of learning. Its two major themes – school-university partnership and sociocultural and social theories of learning – have both...
The Growth of Minds and Culture
A Unified Interpretation of the Structure of Human Experience, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The impact of science and technology on culture raises a number of questions about the ways in which people relate to each other and to their environment. Such questions cannot be answered by traditional approaches. Thus another level of analysis is needed to complement the traditional approaches...
South Asia and Disability Studies
Redefining Boundaries and Extending Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Incorporating scholarship that addresses the social, economic, cultural, and historical facets of the experience of disability in South Asia, this book presents the reader with a comprehensive, cogent, and nuanced view of the constructions of disability in this region. In doing so, it focuses on the...