Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Curriculum Theory
Conflicting Visions and Enduring Concerns
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
The Second Edition of Curriculum Theory: Conflicting Visions and Enduring Concerns by Michael Stephen Schiro presents a clear, unbiased, and rigorous description of the major curriculum philosophies that have influenced educators and schooling over the last century. The author analyzes four educational...
Witnessing Whiteness
The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Witnessing Whiteness invites readers to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiques strategies used to avoid race issues, and identifies the detrimental effect of avoiding race on cross-race collaborations. The author illustrates how racial discomfort leads white people toward poor...
Teacher-Student Relationships
Crossing into the Emotional, Physical, and Sexual Realms
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Why are so many public school teachers, administrators, and coaches choosing to become romantically and sexually involved with teenage students and players? Since 2000, numbers of intimate relationships between teachers and students have skyrocketed. Teacher arrests are at all-time highs. Is there...
Culture and Technology
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
From mobile phones to surveillance cameras, from fracking to genetically modified food, we live in an age of intense debate about technology’s place in our culture. Culture and Technology is an essential guide to that debate and its fascinating history. It is a primer for beginners and an invaluable...
The Bad Faith in the Free Market
The Radical Promise of Existential Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Innovatively combining existentialist philosophy with cutting edge post-structuralist and psychoanalytic perspectives, this book boldly reconsiders market freedom. Bloom argues that present day capitalism has robbed us of our individual and collective ability to imagine and implement alternative and...
Learning and Teaching Together
Weaving Indigenous Ways of Knowing into Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Across Canada, new curriculum initiatives require teachers to introduce students to Aboriginal content. In response, many teachers unfamiliar with Aboriginal approaches to learning and teaching are seeking ways to respectfully weave this material into their lessons. At the same time, many teachers...
Rethinking Children's Rights
Attitudes in Contemporary Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Rethinking Children's Rights explores attitudes towards and experiences of children's rights. Phil Jones and Sue Welch draw on a wide range of thought, research and practice from different fields and countries to debate, challenge and re-appraise long held beliefs, attitudes and ways of working and...
The Reason of Schooling
Historicizing Curriculum Studies, Pedagogy, and Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Problematizing the "reason" of schooling as historical and political, in this book leading international and interdisciplinary scholars challenge the common sense of schooling and the relation of society, education, and curriculum studies. Examining the limits of contemporary notions of...
Curriculum Epistemicide
Towards An Itinerant Curriculum Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Around the world, curriculum – hard sciences, social sciences and the humanities – has been dominated and legitimated by prevailing Western Eurocentric Anglophone discourses and practices. Drawing from and within a complex range of epistemological perspectives from the Middle East, Africa, Southern...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
This book explores images of schoolteachers in America from the beginning of the 20th century to the present, using a wide range of approaches to scholarship and writing. It is intended for both experienced and aspiring teachers to use as a springboard for discussion and reflection about the teaching...
Constructivism
Theory, Perspectives, and Practice, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This enduring bestseller remains the most comprehensive examination of constructivism and its relationship to teaching and learning. Closing the gap between theory and practice, well-known scholars make constructivism accessible by showing its application in everyday classrooms. Building on the success...
Education
An Introductory Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
A social basis for education; The spirit of the Waldorf school; Educational methods based on anthroposophy; The child at play; Teaching from a foundation of spiritual insight and education in the light of spiritual science; The adolescent after the fourteenth year; Science, art, religion and morality;...
Scientific Irrationalism
Origins of a Postmodern Cult
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Little known outside his native Australia, David Stove was one of the most illuminating and brilliant philosophical essayists of his era. A fearless attacker of intellectual and cultural orthodoxies, Stove left powerful critiques of scientific irrationalism, Darwinian theories of human behavior, and...
Philosophy of Science
Volume 2, From Explanation to Justification
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Originally published as Scientific Research, this pair of volumes constitutes a fundamental treatise on the strategy of science. Mario Bunge, one of the major figures of the century in the development of a scientific epistemology, describes and analyzes scientific philosophy, as well as discloses...