Social Aspects category: 6049 books
How Well Do Facts Travel?
The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
This book discusses how facts travel, and when and why they sometimes travel well enough to acquire a life of their own. Whether or not facts travel in this manner depends not only on their character and ability to play useful roles elsewhere, but also on the labels, packaging, vehicles and company...
Cyber Shadows
Power, Crime, and Hacking Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Cyber Shadows is a tour de horizon of the digital world's dark places, the threats and innovations in cybercrime, espionage, and surveillance - and new attacks moving beyond identity theft to hacking our behavioral patterns, brains, and DNA to buy and sell as lucrative business. The implications are staggering: from coercion to the end of the sovereign self.
Mothering, Education and Culture
Russian, Palestinian and Jewish Middle-Class Mothers in Israeli Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book is an ethnographically-informed interview study of the ways in which middle-class mothers from three Israeli social-cultural groups – immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Palestinian Israelis and Jewish native-born Israelis – share and differ in their understandings of a ‘proper’...
Aesthetics, Politics, Pedagogy and Tagore
A Transcultural Philosophy of Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book provides a radical rethinking of the prominent Indian thinker Rabindranath Tagore, exploring how his philosophy of education relates to the ideas of Western theorists such as Kant, Plato and Aristotle. Tagore's thoughts on pedagogy, university and formal education are subjected to a fascinating...
Pedagogies of Globalization
The Rise of the Educational Security State
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In this ground-breaking book, Joel Spring examines globalization and its worldwide effects on education. A central thesis is that industrial-consumerism is the dominant paradigm in the integration of education and economic planning in modern economic security states.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This edited volume of 13 new essays aims to turn past discussions of natural kinds on their head. Instead of presenting a metaphysical view of kinds based largely on an unempirical vantage point, it pursues questions of kindedness which take the use of kinds and activities of kinding in practice as...
Corporate Humanities in Higher Education
Moving Beyond the Neoliberal Academy
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
How do humanists speak for and from the humanities in an academy which values them less and less and market-driven approaches more and more? Jeffrey R. Di Leo provides a thorough critique of the higher education crisis and a set of practical and reasonable remedies for shaping the study and practice of the humanities in the academy of the future.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
The Second Vatican Council (Vatican II), called by Pope John XXIII in 1959, produced sixteen documents that outlined the Church’s attempts to meet increasing calls for modernization in the wake of social and cultural changes that were taking place in the twentieth century.
Catholic Education...
Our Universe
<Br><Br><Br><Br>A Scientific <Br>And Religious View of Creation
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2007
Did God create life, or did the world spontaneously appear? Drawing on meticulous research into the scientific and religious realms, Our Universe is a detailed study of the origin of the universe, life on Earth, and the destiny of mankind.
Biophysics professor Faiz M. Khan combines both faith...
The Garden of Leaders
Revolutionizing Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
The Garden of Leaders explores two related questions: What is leadership? And what sort of education could prepare young people to be leaders? Paul Woodruff argues that higher education--particularly but not exclusively in the liberal arts--should set its main focus on cultivating leadership in students....
Tolerance and Dissent within Education
On Cultivating Debate and Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This book explores how the concept of tolerance might be understood, cultivated and enacted in and through educational encounters. It argues that by opening up educational encounters to allow for ‘dissent’ – that is, disagreement, criticism and open dialogue – our everyday social life experiences...
Catastrophe
Risk and Response
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2004
Catastrophic risks are much greater than is commonly appreciated. Collision with an asteroid, runaway global warming, voraciously replicating nanomachines, a pandemic of gene-spliced smallpox launched by bioterrorists, and a world-ending accident in a high-energy particle accelerator, are among the...
Mobile Communication and Society
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Wireless networks are the fastest growing communications technology in history. Are mobile phones expressions of identity, fashionable gadgets, tools for life--or all of the above? Mobile Communication and Society looks at how the possibility of multimodal communication from anywhere to anywhere at...
Fool's Gold?
Utopianism in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
What's wrong with the world today and how might it become better (or worse)? These are the questions pursued in this book, which explores the hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares of the 21st century. Through architecture, fiction, theory, film and experiments with everyday life, Sargisson explores contemporary hopes and fears about the future.