Social Aspects category: 6049 books
A Short Course in Intellectual Self Defense
Find Your Inner Chomsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
What is the relationship between democracy and critical thinking? What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? In A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense, historian and educator Normand Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through the spin and jargon...
Technoculture and Critical Theory
In the Service of the Machine?
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
The author explores the work of major thinkers and cultural movements that have grappled with the complex relationship between technology, politics and culture. Subjects such as the Internet, cloning, warfare, fascism and Virtual Reality are placed within a broad theoretical context which explores...
Performance Theories in Education
Power, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2004
Performance Theories in Education: Power, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Identity breaks new ground by presenting a range of approaches to understanding the role, function, impact, and presence of performance in education. It is a definitive contribution to a beginning dialogue on how performance,...
Communicating Popular Science
From Deficit to Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Technoscientific developments often have far-reaching consequences, both negative and positive, for the public. Yet, because science has the authority to decide which judgments about scientific issues are sound, public concerns are often dismissed because they are not part of the technoscientific...
The Distraction Addiction
Getting the Information You Need and the Communication You Want, Without Enraging Your Family, Annoying Your Colleagues, and Destroying Your Soul
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
The question of our time: can we reclaim our lives in an age that feels busier and more distracting by the day?
We've all found ourselves checking email at the dinner table, holding our breath while waiting for Outlook to load, or sitting hunched in front of a screen for an hour longer than...
Seizing the Means of Reproduction
Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, Michelle Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism,...
The Science of Heroes
The Real-Life Possibilities Behind the Hit TV Show
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
A fun, fact-filled examination of the science (or lack thereof) behind the hit television series Heroes.
Ordinary people with extraordinary powers populate the world of the hit television show Heroes, where characters exhibit such abilities as flight, telepathy, tissue regeneration, prognostication,...
by Evelyn Fox Keller
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2010
In this powerful critique, the esteemed historian and philosopher of science Evelyn Fox Keller addresses the nature-nurture debates, including the persistent disputes regarding the roles played by genes and the environment in determining individual traits and behavior. Keller is interested in both...
This View of Life
Completing the Darwinian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
It is widely understood that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution completely revolutionized the study of biology. Yet, according to David Sloan Wilson, the Darwinian revolution won’t be truly complete until it is applied more broadly—to everything associated with the words “human,” “culture,”...
Islamic Higher Education in Indonesia
Continuity and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This project looks at the work of the faculty in Indonesia's National Islamic Institutes to address, respond, and prevent the success of radical Islamic discourse and institution of Shari'a law in the school system.
Margaret Mead
Contributions to Contemporary Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
This book makes a case for Margaret Mead's contributions to education discourses, which in retrospect appear visionary and profoundly democratic, non judgemental and transdisciplinary, and for their relevance for education today at primary, secondary and tertiary levels. Mead combined her substantial...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Education is a contested topic, and not just politically. For years scholars have approached it from two different points of view: one empirical, focused on explanations for student and school success and failure, and the other philosophical, focused on education’s value and purpose within the larger...
Pirate Philosophy
For a Digital Posthumanities
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
How philosophers and theorists can find new models for the creation, publication, and dissemination of knowledge, challenging the received ideas of originality, authorship, and the book.
In Pirate Philosophy, Gary Hall considers whether the fight against the neoliberal corporatization of higher...
by Carlos Alberto Torres
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
This volume by noted critical education scholar Carlos Alberto Torres takes up the question of how structural changes in schooling and the growing impacts of neoliberalism and globalization affect social change, national development, and democratic educational systems throughout the world. The first...