Social Aspects category: 6049 books
by Khen Lampert
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
This book critically examines the socio-cultural role of achievement within education, arguing that the increasingly global demand for measurable standards of academic achievement is an expression of political ideology and the aggressive competitive reality of a neo-capitalist schooling system, resulting in many students feeling socially worthless.
Privileged Thinking in Today's Schools
The Implications for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Privileged thinking in today's schools is alive and well and shows its ugly head in a variety of ways that often go undetected (or are not addressed) by the educators down in the trenches. In this collection of scenarios and episodes, many of which were experienced by the authors in their years as...
Democracy Betrayed
The Rise of the Surveillance Security State
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
**“A persuasive *****cri de coeur ***from a national security expert . . . makes a spirited case for preferring untrammeled freedom to managed and monitored safety.” —Kirkus Reviews
In the aftermath of 9/11, in lockstep with booming technological advancements, a new and more authoritarian...
Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities in UK Education
Tensions and Inequalities
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Top scholars systematically explore roles, rights, and responsibilities of major participants in UK education: the government, the educators, the learners, and the parents. They investigate the inequalities produced by their current arrangement and look into how changing these arrangements might lead to different outcomes for all involved.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Contributors argue that the key to innovative teaching and scholarship lies in institutional support for the contingent labor force, and they encourage contingent faculty to organize self-mentoring groups, create venues for learning/disseminating their experiences and findings, and connect scholarship to service and teaching in novel ways.
Greater than Equal
African American Struggles for Schools and Citizenship in North Carolina, 1919-1965
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
During the half century preceding widespread school integration, black North Carolinians engaged in a dramatic struggle for equal educational opportunity as segregated schooling flourished. Drawing on archival records and oral histories, Sarah Thuesen gives voice to students, parents, teachers, school...
by Jared Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Technology continues to unlock new ways for Americans to live and work. To illustrate these changes, this broadside explores the promise of online platforms such as Uber and Airbnb. Unfortunately, instead of embracing innovation, many cities insist on applying antiquated regulations or completely...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
The sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas has had a wide-ranging and significant impact on understandings of social change and social conflict. However, there has been no concerted and focused attempt to introduce his ideas to the field of education broadly. This book rectifies this omission...
I nuovi poteri forti
Come Google Apple Facebook e Amazon pensano per noi
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Senza soffermarci troppo a riflettere sulle conseguenze, nell’ultimo decennio abbiamo accolto con entusiasmo i prodotti e i servizi di alcune grandi aziende: facciamo acquisti su Amazon, socializziamo su Facebook, ci affidiamo a Google per ogni tipo di informazione e Apple ci fornisce gli strumenti...
Political Communication in Canada
Meet the Press and Tweet the Rest
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
Changes in technology and media consumption are transforming the way people communicate about politics. Are they also changing the way politicians communicate to the public? Political Communication in Canada examines the way political parties, politicians, interest groups, the media, and citizens...
Humans 3.0
The Upgrading of the Species
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Life for early humans wasn’t easy. They may have been able to walk on two feet and create tools 4 million years ago, but they couldn’t remember or communicate. Fortunately, people got smarter, and things got better. They remembered on-the-spot solutions and shared the valuable information of their...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Actor-Network Theory (ANT) has existed as a topic of interest among social theorists for decades. Due to the prevalence of technology in modern society, discussions over the influence of actor-network theory on the changing scope of technology can assist in facilitating further research and scientific...
Badass Teachers Unite!
Writing on Education, History, and Youth Activism
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Mark Naison is one of the most respected voices in urban education.
Naison founded an organization called the The Badass Teachers Association. They have recruited more than 23,000 members in the first 5 weeks.
His blog receives more than 40,000 unique hits a year.
Higher Education in Ireland
Practices, Policies and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
This collection provides the first in-depth, interdisciplinary and over-arching review of higher education in Ireland, situating higher education within the socio-cultural, political and historical context of the country over the past 40 years and the development of European and national policies.