Social Aspects category: 6049 books
by Professor Frank Webster, Frank Webster
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
Information has come to be regarded as a symbol of the age in which we live. Talk nowadays is of an `information technology' revolution, even of an `information society'. But just what does this mean? In Theories of the Information Society Frank Webster sets out to make sense of the information explosion....
Cuba’s Academic Advantage
Why Students in Cuba Do Better in School
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
In this book, Martin Carnoy explores the surprising success of the Cuban educational system, where the average elementary school student learns much more than her Latin American peers. In developing the case for Cuba's supportive social context and centralized management of education, Carnoy asks...
Teaching Kids to Thrive
Essential Skills for Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
There’s more to student success than standards and test scores…
Integrating Social and Emotional Learning into a curriculum has been shown to increase personal and school-wide growth. With lifelong success the goal over simply meeting academic thresholds, Teaching Kids to Thrive presents...
by Jawanza Kunjufu
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Addressing the many unique academic challenges that face black males—from low self-esteem, absenteeism, fatherlessness, and gangs to not accepting middle-class values, the impact of hip-hop culture, and drugs—this book provides answers and hope to teachers and the afflicted students and their...
Technologies of Consumer Labor
A History of Self-Service
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This bookdocuments and examines the history of technology used by consumers to serve oneself. The telephone’s development as a self-service technology functions as the narrative spine, beginning with the advent of rotary dialing eliminating most operator services and transforming every local connection...
Educational Developments, Practices and Effectiveness
Global Perspectives and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Exploring a range of educational developments and practices in different national contexts in Australia, Canada and Switzerland, this book analyses the effectiveness of such initiatives. Case studies in the book include business and online education, supporting students with disabilities and school-wide pedagogical improvement.
Futures Beyond Dystopia
Creating Social Foresight
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2003
How can dystopian futures help provide the motivation to change the ways we operate day to day?
Futures Beyond Dystopia takes the view that the dominant trends in the world suggest a long-term decline into unliveable Dystopian futures. The human prospect is therefore very challenging, yet the perception...
What the Future Looks Like
Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries—and Reveal How Today's Breakthroughs Are Already Shaping Our World
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Science fact, not science fiction, on the cutting–edge developments that are already changing the course of our future
Every day, scientists conduct pioneering experiments with the potential to transform how we live. Yet it isn’t every day you hear from the scientists themselves! Now, award–winning...
The Internet Trap
Five Costs of Living Online
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Whether we are checking emails, following friends on Facebook and Twitter, catching up on gossip from TMZ, planning holidays on TripAdvisor, arranging dates on Match.com, watching videos on Youtube, or simply browsing for deals on Amazon, the Internet pervades our professional and personal environments....
On Fact and Fraud
Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Fraud in science is not as easy to identify as one might think. When accusations of scientific misconduct occur, truth can often be elusive, and the cause of a scientist's ethical misstep isn't always clear. On Fact and Fraud looks at actual cases in which fraud was committed or alleged, explaining...
Making Schools Different
Alternative Approaches to Educating Young People
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
With a foreword by Professor Stephen Ball
What can we do with students who don't succeed in the typical classroom, and what are the alternatives to full-time schooling?
With contributions from leading academics from Canada, America, the UK, The Netherlands and Australia, this internationally-minded...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Recent work on children's digital cultures has identified a range of literacies emerging through children's engagement with new media technologies. This edited collection focuses on children's digital cultures, specifically examining the role of play and creativity in learning with these new technologies.
The...
Children's Emotions in Policy and Practice
Mapping and Making Spaces of Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This volume examines children's and young people's emotions in policy-making and professional practice. It seeks both to inform readers about up-to-date research and to provoke debate, encouraging and enabling critical reflections upon emotions in policy and practice, relevant to readers' own context.
by R. Brooks, J. Waters
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
This book develops a comprehensive understanding of the motivations and experiences of students who choose to study abroad for the whole or part of a degree. It includes case studies of students from East Asia, Europe and the UK, and considers the implications of their movement for contemporary higher education.