Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Citizens and Nation
An Essay on History, Communication, and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2000
Grandmother Andre told stories in front of a campfire. Elizabeth Goudie wrote a memoir in school scribblers. Phyllis Knight taped hours of interviews with her son. Today's families rely on television and video cameras. They are all making history.
In a different approach to that old issue,...
Education in a New Society
Renewing the Sociology of Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
In recent decades, sociology of education has been dominated by quantitative analyses of race, class, and gender gaps in educational achievement. And while there’s no question that such work is important, it leaves a lot of other fruitful areas of inquiry unstudied. This book takes that problem...
by W. J. Rock
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
The Pursuit of Liberal Education is a scholarly but accessible book on philosophy of education. It also involves a look at a philosophy of man, mind, conduct, government and progress. There is a discussion of the humanities and sciences, along with some social criticism, too. It calls for a revival...
Cyberactivism
Online Activism in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Cyberactivism is a timely collection of essays examining the growing importance of online activism. The contributors show how online activists have not only incorporated recent technology as a tool for change, but also how they have changed the meaning of activism, what community means, and how they...
Evaluating European Education Policy-Making
Privatization, Networks and the European Commission
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
This collection is an inside look at European Commission policy-making in education and the privatization of policy-making in the European Union. Along with contributions from leading academics in the field of educational policy and policy-sociology, this book also introduces the voices of policy consultants and policy-makers.
Children of Ezekiel
Aliens, UFOs, the Crisis of Race, and the Advent of End Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 1998
Are Milton’s Paradise Lost, Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” missile defense program, our culture’s fascination with UFOs and alien abductions, and Louis Farrakhan’s views on racial Armageddon somehow linked? In Children of Ezekiel Michael Lieb reveals the connections between these phenomena...
In Defence Of The School
A Public Issue
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
As a painfully outdated institution the school is accused of: being alienating, closing itself off to society and to the needs of young people; reproducing social inequality and consolidating existing power relations; demotivating youth; showing a lack of effectiveness and having great difficulty...
Your Life, Uploaded
The Digital Way to Better Memory, Health, and Productivity
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
"A marvelous job of exploring first hand the implications of storing our entire lives digitally."
-Guy L. Tribble, Apple, Inc.
Tech luminary, Gordon Bell, and Jim Gemmell unveil a guide to the next digital revolution. Our daily life started becoming digital a decade ago. Now much of what we...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
The Prisoner's Dilemma is one of the most fiercely debated thought experiments in philosophy and the social sciences, presenting the simple insight that when two or more agents interact, the actions that most benefit each individual may not benefit the group. The fact that when you do what is best...
Lower Ed
The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
**“The best book yet on the complex lives and choices of for-profit students.”
—The New York Times Book Review
As featured on The Daily Show, NPR’s Marketplace, and Fresh Air, the “powerful, chilling tale” (Carol Anderson, author of White Rage) of higher education becoming an engine...
Rethinking Family-school Relations
A Critique of Parental involvement in Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
This book addresses the complications and implications of parental involvement as a policy, through an exploratory theoretical approach, including historical and sociological accounts and personal reflection. This approach represents the author's effort to understand the origins, meanings, and effects...
by Steven C. Ward
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
This book examines the influence of neoliberal ideas and practices on the way knowledge has been conceptualized, produced, and disseminated over the last few decades at different levels of public education and in various national contexts around the world.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
What is the value of an education? Volume 4 of the Handbooks in the Economics of Education combines recent data with new methodologies to examine this and related questions from diverse perspectives. School choice and school competition, educator incentives, the college premium, and other considerations...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
The value of intangible assets has become increasingly prominent in recent years, in spite of the difficulties involved in the identification, measurement and financial valuation of intangibles. Identifying, Measuring, and Valuing Knowledge-Based Intangible Assets: New Perspectives highlights the...