Social Aspects category: 6049 books
by Sheree N. Alexander, Mariella I. Arredondo, Tabetha Bernstein-Danis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
This volume examines the school-to-prison pipeline, a concept that has received growing attention over the past 10–15 years in the United States. The “pipeline” refers to a number of interrelated concepts and activities that most often include the criminalization of students and student behavior,...
by Patrick Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
The pace of change in the past two decades has been extraordinary and it has become much harder for businesses to anticipate the environment in which they will be operating not far down the line - how markets and marketing will change, how employees and consumers behaviour and attitudes will change....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
The position and role of the business school and its educational programmes have become increasingly prominent, yet also questioned and contested. What management education entails, and how it is enacted, has become a matter of profound concern in the field of higher education and, more generally,...
Education plc
Understanding Private Sector Participation in Public Sector Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Is the privatisation of state education defendable? Did the public sector ever provide a fair education for all learners?
In Education plc, Stephen Ball provides a comprehensive, analytic and empirical account of the privatisation of education. He questions the kind of future we want for education...
Smarter Than You Think
How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
A revelatory and timely look at how technology boosts our cognitive abilities—making us smarter, more productive, and more creative than ever
It’s undeniable—technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding...
Watching YouTube
Extraordinary Videos by Ordinary People
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
An anonymous musician plays Pachelbel's Canon on the electric guitar in a clip that has been viewed over sixty million times. The Dramatic Gopher is viewed over sixteen million times, as is a severely inebriated David Hasselhoff attempting to eat a hamburger. Over 800 variations, parodies, and parodies-of-parodies...
The Brain Electric
The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The gripping and revelatory story of the dramatic race to merge the human brain with machines
Leading neuroscience researchers are racing to unlock the secrets of the mind. On the cusp of decoding brain signals that govern motor skills, they are developing miraculous technologies to enable...
Poor Students, Richer Teaching
Mindsets That Raise Student Achievement (The Science Behind Students’ Emotional States)
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Second in a two-book series
This research-based teacher resource details the difficult but necessary work that K-12 teachers must undertake to positively impact the college and career readiness of students living in poverty. A companion to Poor Students, Rich Teaching, this book outlines three...
Identity and Schooling among the Naxi
Becoming Chinese with Naxi Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Identity and Schooling among the Naxi examines the identity construction of Naxi students in Lijiang No.1 Senior Secondary School in China, focusing on the changing roles of school, community, and family in the identity construction of the students. Through participant observation, interviews, and...
Approaching the Future
64 Things You Need to Know Now for Then
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
From a Wired technology journalist: an “astute” and “easy-to-read” primer on the vast technological and cultural changes shaping tomorrow’s world (Financial Times).
In Approaching the Future, Editor-at-Large for Wired magazine and guru of the digital age Ben Hammersley offers the essential...
Resilience
Why Things Bounce Back
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Discover a powerful new lens for viewing the world with fascinating implications for our companies, economies, societies, and planet as a whole.
What causes one system to break down and another to rebound? Are we merely subject to the whim of forces beyond our control? Or, in the face of constant...
Megatech
Technology in 2050
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
What will the world of technology look like in 2050? And how will it affect the way we live? These are the big questions explored in MEGATECH: TECHNOLOGY IN 2050, a collection of thought-provoking insights imagining how big developments in technology might shape the future.
The book invites...
The Sixth Wave
How to Succeed in a Resource-Limited World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
How to succeed in a resource limited world.
Making predictions about the future is a dangerous game, particularly when that future has never looked more uncertain. Natural resources are dwindling and we are wasting the resources we do have at an unparalleled rate. Climate change threatens our...
Boundaries in an Overconnected World
Setting Limits to Preserve Your Focus, Privacy, Relationships, and Sanity
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Over the past decade, 24/7 connectivity has given us not only convenience and fun but worries about privacy, interruptions while working or trying to enjoy family or other downtime, and new compulsions — from shopping to tweeting and cute-cat watching. Anne Katherine, one of the authors who brought...