Social Aspects category: 6049 books
by Andrew J. Knight
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
For decades, experts and the public have been at odds over the nature and magnitude of risks and how they should be mitigated through policy. Experts argue that the fears of the public are irrational, and that public policy should be based on sound science. The public, on the other hand, is skeptical...
Reimagining Civic Education
How Diverse Societies Form Democratic Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2006
This volume surveys the new global landscape for democratic civic education. Rooted in qualitative researc, the contributors explore the many ways that notions of democracy and citizenship have been implemented in recent education policy, curriculum, and classroom practice around the world. From Indonesia...
by Ursula Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
In this expanded edition of her bestselling 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, renowned scientist and humanitarian Ursula M. Franklin examines the impact of technology upon our lives and addresses the extraordinary changes since The Real World of Technology was first published. In four new chapters, Franklin...
The Power of the Internet in China
Citizen Activism Online
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2009
Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Guobin Yang's pioneering study maps an innovative range of contentious forms and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace, delineating...
Human Purpose and Transhuman Potential
A Cosmic Vision of Our Future Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
For millennia, great thinkers have contemplated the meaning and purpose of human existence; but while most assumed that humanity was the end point of creation or the pinnacle of evolution, Ted Chu makes the provocative claim that the human race may in fact be a means rather than an end—that humankind...
2030
Technology That Will Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Imagine living in 1958, and knowing that the integrated circuit--the microchip--was about to be invented, and would revolutionize the world. Or imagine 1992, when the Internet was about to transform virtually every aspect of our lives. Incredibly, this book argues that we stand at such a moment right...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Risk has become one of the main topics in fields as diverse as engineering, medicine and economics, and it is also studied by social scientists, psychologists and legal scholars. This Springer Essentials version offers an overview of the in-depth handbook and highlights some of the main points covered...
Pedagogy for Restoration
Addressing Social and Ecological Degradation through Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Pedagogy for Restoration seeks to understand the conditions leading to the destruction of Earth in order to discover pedagogy for restoration. As we degrade the planet we degrade ourselves and as we degrade ourselves we degrade the planet. Moral development and socialization significantly influence...
JOHN DEWEY Premium Collection – 40+ Books in One Single Volume: Works on Psychology, Education, Philosophy & Politics
Democracy and Education, The Schools of Utopia, Studies in Logical Theory, Ethics, Soul and Body, Psychology and Social Practice, Psychology of Infant Language, German Philosophy and Politics...
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
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by John Dewey
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The relations of education to the public are different from those of any other professional work. Education is a public business with us, in a sense that the protection and restoration of personal health or legal rights are not. To an extent characteristic of no other institution, save that of the...
Updating to Remain the Same
Habitual New Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
What it means when media moves from the new to the habitual—when our bodies become archives of supposedly obsolescent media, streaming, updating, sharing, saving.
New media—we are told—exist at the bleeding edge of obsolescence. We thus forever try to catch up, updating to remain the...
by Matthias Gross
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
The relationship between ignorance and surprise and a conceptual framework for dealing with the unexpected, as seen in ecological design projects.
The Cyber Effect
An Expert in Cyberpsychology Explains How Technology Is Shaping Our Children, Our Behavior, and Our Values--and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
A groundbreaking exploration of how cyberspace is changing the way we think, feel, and behave
“A must-read for this moment in time.”—Steven D. Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics • One of the best books of the year—Nature
Mary Aiken, the world’s leading expert in forensic...
by Siobhan McKeown
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?
Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely tells the story of a transition to the digital age....