Social Aspects category: 6049 books
by Theo A. F. Kuipers
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
This monograph presents new ideas in nomic truth approximation. It features original and revised papers from a (formal) philosopher of science who has studied the concept for more than 35 years.
Over the course of time, the author's initial ideas evolved. He discovered a way to generalize his...
by Neil Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
This book engages with the political, philosophical and policy debates around contemporary democratic socialism and state education. It examines contemporary education and education systems, as well as democratic socialism in the context of the complex political world we live in currently. It takes...
Conversation Analysis and Early Childhood Education
The Co-Production of Knowledge and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This book provides insight into the everyday activities co-produced by teachers and young children, demonstrating the fine details of teaching and learning as knowledge is shared through the everyday activities of talk-in-interaction. Adopting an ethnomethodological perspective, together with conversation...
by C. F. Gethmann, M. Carrier, G. Hanekamp
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Interdisciplinarity has seemingly become a paradigm for modern and meaningful research. Clearly, the interdisciplinary modus of deliberation enables to unfold relevant but quite different disciplinary perspectives to the reflection of broader scientific questions or societal problems. However, whether...
by Gabriella A. Madsen
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Social Pedagogy / Social Work, grade: 3.78, Northwest University, course: transitional housing, young adults, homelessness, mixed income housing, psychological sense of community, language: English, abstract: Homeless young adults represent a failure...
Evolution and Progress in Democracies
Towards New Foundations of a Knowledge Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
In a ground-breaking series of articles, one of them written by a Nobel Laureate, this volume demonstrates the evolutionary dynamic and the transformation of today's democratic societies into scientific-democratic societies. It highlights the progress of modeling individual and societal evaluation...
by Paul Langevin
Language: French
Release Date: May 29, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: May 29, 2016
Conférence faite à la Société française de Physique le 26 mars 1913.
La notion de masse, fondamentale en mécanique, peut être introduite de trois manières différentes qui correspondent à trois aspects du phénomène...
Manifestações e protestos no Brasil
Correntes e contracorrentes na atualidade
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 12, 2018
O livro aborda manifestações e protestos no Brasil, de junho de 2013 ao impeachment em 2016. Três momentos são observados com alterações significativas entre eles: atores/sujeitos sociopolíticos, repertórios, correntes político-ideológicas e a cultura política vigente. São analisados três...
Angels in the Silicon
How Silicon Valley Changed Forever America’S Sociopolitical and Global Technology Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
This creative non-fiction book for the reader is a great introduction to the effects of global capitalism on the dynamic region that is the San Francisco Bay Area. It is written by the author with deep knowledge of the business practices, which have shaped the area into what it is today. What will...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This volume features a collection of essays on consciousness, which has become one of the hot topics at the crossroads between neuroscience, philosophy, and religious studies. Is consciousness something the brain produces? How can we study it? Is there just one type of consciousness or are there different...
Textbooks and War
Historical and Multinational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
This volume reflects on the role played by textbooks in the complex relationship between war and education from a historical and multinational perspective, asking how textbook content and production can play a part in these processes. It has long been established that history textbooks play a key...
Biology and Feminism
A Philosophical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This book provides a unique introduction to the study of relationships between gender and biology, a core part of the feminist science research tradition which emerged nearly half a century ago. Lynn Hankinson Nelson presents an accessible and balanced discussion of research questions, background...
by Richard R. Verdugo
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
This monograph examines changes in the American public school population from 1900 to 2010. It shows how different historical periods have affected the composition of the student body and have posed important challenges to those involved in shaping educational policy.
The author first develops...
Ecole et adolescence
Une approche sociolgique
Language: French
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Ce livre constitue un outil de réflexion pour tous les adultes confrontés à des adolescents scolarisés, que ce soit dans la sphère professionnelle ou privée. Il est tout particulièrement destiné aux enseignants, en formation ou en activité, qui cherchent à nourrir leurs pratiques des acquis...