Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog
Scientific Discovery and Social Analysis in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Gravity’s Ghost and Big Dog brings to life science’s efforts to detect cosmic gravitational waves. These ripples in space-time are predicted by general relativity, and their discovery will not only demonstrate the truth of Einstein’s theories but also transform astronomy. Although no gravitational...
Fire in the Mind
Science, Faith, and the Search for Order
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
Are there really laws governing the universe? Or is the order we see a mere artifact of the way evolution wired the brain? And is what we call science only a set of myths in which quarks, DNA, and information fill the role once occupied by gods? These questions lie at the heart of George Johnson's...
Classroom Action
Human Rights, Critical Activism, and Community-Based Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Building on the concept of a “teaching community,” Heble and his contributors explore what it might mean for teachers and students to reach outside the walls of the classroom and attempt to establish meaningful connections between the ideas and theories they have learned and the broader community...
The Passage from Youth to Adulthood
Narrative and Cultural Thresholds
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
The Passage from Youth to Adulthood explores a society unanchored from culturally-endorsed rites of passage. Pierluca Birindelli analyzed self-narrations of Italian young adults still living with their parents and longer autobiographies written by university students, measuring his impressions against sociological, psychological and anthropological studies.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
This second handbook offers all new content in which readers will find a thoughtful and measured interrogation of significant contemporary thinking and practice in urban education. Each chapter reflects contemporary cutting-edge issues in urban education as defined by their local context. One important...
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Education and the Dispossession of Youth in a Prison School
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
“This is an American story, unsettled by contradictions, constituted by unresolvable loss and open-ended hope, produced through brutal exclusivities and persistent insurgencies. This is the story of Lincoln prison.” In her Introduction, Sabina E. Vaught passionately details why the subject of prisons...
No Angel in the Classroom
Teaching through Feminist Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2000
No Angel in the Classroom: Teaching through Feminist Discourse presents a theoretically complex yet down-to-earth and personal account of feminist teaching in higher education. Starting with a nuanced interpretation of consciousness-raising, longtime feminist educator Berenice Malka Fisher develops...
Bruno Latour in Pieces
An Intellectual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Bruno Latour stirs things up. Latour began as a lover of science and technology, co-founder of actor-network theory, and philosopher of a modernity that had “never been modern.” In the meantime he is regarded not just as one of the most intelligent—and also popular—exponents of science studies...
Rethinking School Violence
Theory, Gender, Context
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Taking a sociocultural approach to understanding violence, the authors in this collection examine how norms of gender, culture and educational practice contribute to school violence, providing strategies to intervene in and address violence in educational contexts.
Understanding Child and Adolescent Behaviour in the Classroom
Research and Practice for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Understanding Child and Adolescent Behaviour in the Classroom is a vital guide for pre-service and in-service teachers, providing the tools to respond effectively and ethically to child and adolescent behaviour that is of concern. In this innovative book, expert authors offer 'positive rules' that...
Educational Commons in Theory and Practice
Global Pedagogy and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
In this volume, critical scholars and educational activists explore the intricate dynamics between the enclosure of global commons and radical visions of a common social future that breaks through the logics of privatization, ecological degradation, and dehumanizing social hierarchies in education....
by David Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
In the spirit of Paulo Freire, this inspiring book deconstructs many of the 'gods' that define contemporary life, then offers hope through sources of traditional wisdom. It addresses important contemporary discourses in the political and social sciences in ways that are relevant to the personal and...
Socially Just, Radical Alternatives for Education and Youth Work Practice
Re-Imagining Ways of Working with Young People
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Challenging dominant discourses in neoliberal marketized societies about working with disconnected young people, this book argues that alternative, radical approaches to formal and informal education are necessary to challenge repressive practices, and to help build a more equal, socially-just society.
The Smart Enough City
Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be “smart enough,” using technology to promote democracy and equity.
Smart cities, where technology is used to solve every problem, are hailed as futuristic urban utopias. We are promised that apps, algorithms, and artificial intelligence...