Social Aspects category: 6049 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
This handbook focuses on the often neglected dimension of interpretation in educational research. It argues that all educational research is in some sense ‘interpretive’, and that understanding this issue belies some usual dualisms of thought and practice, such as the sharp dichotomy between ‘qualitative’...
by Elizabeth A. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
In Gut Feminism Elizabeth A. Wilson urges feminists to rethink their resistance to biological and pharmaceutical data. Turning her attention to the gut and depression, she asks what conceptual and methodological innovations become possible when feminist theory isn’t so instinctively antibiological....
Realizing the Witch
Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan (The Witch, 1922) stands as a singular film within the history of cinema. Deftly weaving contemporary scientific analysis and powerfully staged historical scenes of satanic initiation, confession under torture, possession, and persecution, Häxan creatively blends spectacle...
Modernising Education in Britain and China
Comparative Perspectives on Excellence and Social Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
In spite of the perceived differences between Eastern and Western culture and society, the education systems of Britain and China can be seen to share certain goals, priorities and challenges. Modernisation is very much a core objective for educators in both countries. Moreover, both education systems...
Narrative Research in Practice
Stories from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
This book directly addresses the multiplicity and complexity of narrative research by illustrating a variety of avenues to pursuing and publishing research that falls under the umbrella of narrative work. The chapters are drawn from a wide range of disciplines including education, literary studies,...
Migration, Diversity, and Education
Beyond Third Culture Kids
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
The concept of Third Culture Kids is often used to describe people who have spent their childhood on the move, living in many different countries and languages. This book examines the hype, relevance and myths surrounding the concept while also redefining it within a broader study of transnationality to demonstrate the variety of stories involved.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This book presents a collection of papers written by researchers, teachers, administrators, analysts and graduate students working and doing research in the field of social sciences. The scientific studies include a wide range of topics from the analysis of social science textbooks to the teacher...
Networking Peripheries
Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
An exploration of the diverse experiments in digital futures as they advance far from the celebrated centers of technological innovation and entrepreneurship.
In Networking Peripheries, Anita Chan shows how digital cultures flourish beyond Silicon Valley and other celebrated centers of technological...
by Jose Remigio Gomis Fuentes Sr
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Esta obra está compuesta de un enorme compendio de cuestiones relativas a la Educación Permanente y de adultos y, que se ajustan a las asignaturas de Grado relativas a las Ciencias de la Educación, Psicopedagogía, Pedagogía, Educación Social, etc.En esta obra encontrará más de 1.700 cuestiones...
Working Class Girls, Education and Post-Industrial Britain
Aspirations and Reality in an Ex-Coalmining Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This book explores the aspirations of 'working class' girls' in an ex-mining community in the UK. It highlights the difficulties present in these 'post-industrial' settings, which are often areas of severe deprivation, and questions whether these place limitations on the achievements of the girls...
Understanding the Black Flame and Multigenerational Education Trauma
Toward a Theory of the Dehumanization of Black Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Unlike any text to date, this revolutionary study surveys Black research and literature to determine the processes formal education uses to dehumanize Black students. This is a socio-historical analysis of the Black Flame trilogy (BFT), W. E. B. Du Bois’s unparalleled, thirty-year study of Atlanta,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Migrants and diaspora communities are shaped by their use of information and communication technologies. This book explores the multifaceted role played by new media in the re-location of these groups of people, assisting them in their efforts to defeat nostalgia, construct new communities, and keep...
Basil Bernstein
The thinker and the field
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Basil Bernstein: The Thinker and the Field provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Basil Bernstein, demonstrating his distinctive contribution to social theory by locating it within the historical context of the development of the sociology of education and Sociology in Britain. Although...
Playing for Change
Music Festivals as Community Learning and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Playing for Change – performing for money and for social justice – introduces a critical pedagogy of arts-based community learning and development (A-CLD), a new discipline wherein artists learn to become educators, social workers, and community economic development agents. Challenging the assumption...