Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Teaching Each Other
Nehinuw Concepts and Indigenous Pedagogies
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
In recent decades, educators have been seeking ways to improve outcomes for Indigenous students. Yet most Indigenous education still takes place within a theoretical framework based in Eurocentric thought.
In Teaching Each Other, Linda Goulet and Keith Goulet provide an alternative framework...
by John Eggleston
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
In their appearance, schools often seem to be physically separated from their surroundings, cut off from the neighbouring houses and streets by high walls, by playgrounds or playing fields. Within the school, another world seems to exist, with a life of its own – its own routine, dress, rules and...
by Geoffrey Walford
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Can privilege be bought? Arguments have raged over whether private education in the UK is ‘the cement in the wall’ dividing British society, or whether parental choice is, as has also been argued ‘a key component of a free society’. The author here describes the traditional private sector...
Human Nature as Capacity
Transcending Discourse and Classification
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This book argues that it is again appropriate to bring “the human” to the fore, to reclaim the singularity of the word as central...
Red Earth, White Lies
Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
Vine Deloria, Jr., leading Native American scholar and author of the best-selling God is Red, addresses the conflict between mainstream scientific theory about our world and the ancestral worldview of Native Americans. Claiming that science has created a largely fictional scenario for American Indians...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
This Handbook is a much needed international reference work, written by leading writers in the field of global citizenship and education. It is based on the most recent research and practice from across the world, with the 'Geographically-Based Overviews' section providing summaries of global citizenship...
Handbook of Research on Mobility and Computing
Evolving Technologies and Ubiquitous Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Mobility and Computing have experienced an amazing evolution during the last decade, impacting business, economy, and society, enabling new organizational models, new ways of working, new inter-organizational dynamics, increased flexibility, efficiency, and effectiveness in all sectors of activity....
The Politics of Teacher Professional Development
Policy, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The Politics of Teacher Professional Development: Policy, Research and Practice provides innovative insights into teachers’ continuing development and learning in contemporary western contexts. Rather than providing a list of "how-tos" and "must dos," this volume is premised...
A Light In Dark Times
Maxine Greene and the Unfinished Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A Light in Dark Times features a list of extraordinary contributors who have been deeply influenced by Professor Greene’s progressive philosophies. While Maxine Greene is the focus for this collection, each chapter is an encounter with her ideas by an educator concerned with his or her own works...
Logic, Language, and Probability
A Selection of Papers Contributed to Sections IV, VI, and XI of the Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Bucharest, September 1971
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philos ophy of Science was held in Bucharest, Romania, on August 29-September 4, 1971. The Congress was organized, under the auspices of the Inter national Union for History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology...
Philology and Global English Studies
Retracings
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
This book retraces the formation of modern English Studies by departing from philological scholarship along two lines: in terms of institutional histories and in terms of the separation of literary criticism and linguistics.
by C. Gere
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Community Without Community in Digital Culture presents the view that our digital culture is determined not by greater connection, but by the separation and gap that is a necessary concomitant of our fundamental technicity.
by Jason Reza Jorjani
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Apocalypse. In its original Greek sense, the word means “revelation.” Over the course of the next several decades, within the lifespan of a single generation, certain convergent advancements in technology will reveal something profound about human existence. Biotechnology, robotics, virtual reality,...
Chicano School Failure and Success
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The third edition of the best selling collection, Chicano School Failure and Success presents a complete and comprehensive review of the multiple and complex issues affecting Chicano students today. Richly informative and accessibly written, this edition includes completely revised and updated chapters...