Social Aspects category: 6049 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
One problem which continues to absorb social scientists is the way in which so much social deprivation stems from racial or class status. The discussion in this book is developed in two ways: firstly, careful attention is given to an examination of the way minority groups create and maintain collective...
World Scouting
Educating for Global Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
In a very comprehensible and entertaining way explores the main findings of the first academic research on world scouting, the largest young movement on the planet. The work revisits scouting's origins, analyzing its structure and recognition policy, its role in developing ideas of global citizenship and belonging, and the spirit of scouting.
Critical Human Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy Education
Entanglements and Regenerations
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Critical Human Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy Education presents new scholarly research that views human rights, democracy and citizenship education as a critical project. Written by an international line-up of contributors including academics from Canada, Cyprus, Ireland, South Africa, Sweden,...
by François Caffequat
Language: French
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: February 3, 2016
-Vous vivez trop dans l’hyper-contrôle. Il faut lâcher prise ! -Quoi ? Lâcher prise ? Un type cérébral comme moi ? Vous plaisantez, j’espère ? Vous savez que je suis Français ? Je suis Hexagonal et Kafkagonal ! -Kafkagonal ? Je ne la connaissais pas celle-là. Vous pouvez expliciter ? -Méandreux. ...
How Not to be a Hypocrite
School Choice for the Morally Perplexed Parent
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
How not to be a hypocrite: the indispensable guide to school choice that morally perplexed parents have been waiting for.
Many of us believe in social justice and equality of opportunity - but we also want the best for our kids. How can we square our political principles with our special concern for...
Supporting and Educating Young Muslim Women
Stories from Australia and the UK
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
This book draws on the stories of female educators and young Muslim women to explore issues of identity, justice and education. Situated against a backdrop of unprecedented Islamophobia and new articulations of ‘White-lash’, this book draws on case study research conducted over a ten-year period...
Québec Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Part II: Biology, Psychology, Cognitive Science and Economics Essays in Honor of Hugues Leblanc
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
By North-American standards, philosophy is not new in Quebec: the first men tion of philosophy lectures given by a Jesuit in the College de Quebec (founded 1635) dates from 1665, and the oldest logic manuscript dates from 1679. In English-speaking universities such as McGill (founded 1829), philosophy...
Atopias
Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This book offers a manifesto for a radical existentialism aiming to regenerate the place of the outside that contemporary theory underestimates. Neyrat calls this outside “atopia”: not utopia, a dreamt place out of the world where everything would be perfect, but atopia, the internal outside that...
by Liam Gearon
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Religion has had notable and renewed prominence in contemporary public and political life. Religious questions have also been freshly examined in philosophy and theology, the natural sciences, the social sciences, psychology, phenomenology, politics and the arts. These fields reflect complex, multi-disciplinary...
by Michelle Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
What is a life worth? In the wake of eugenics, new quantitative racist practices that valued life for the sake of economic futures flourished. In The Economization of Life, Michelle Murphy provocatively describes the twentieth-century rise of infrastructures of calculation and experiment aimed at...
Beyond Disruption
Technology's Challenge to Governance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
In Beyond Disruption: Technology's Challenge to Governance, George P. Shultz, Jim Hoagland, and James Timbie present views from some of the country's top experts in the sciences, humanities, and military that scrutinize the rise of post-millennium technologies in today's global society. They contemplate...
by Dr. Karen Messing, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, then a new professor of molecular genetics, was called in to help. Unsure of what to do with her discovery that exposure to the radiation was harming the...
The Origins of American Philosophy of Education
Its Development as a Distinct Discipline, 1808–1913
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
John Dewey once wrote: "Education is such an important interest of life that . . . we should expect to find a philosophy of education, just as there is a philosophy of art and of religion. We should expect, that is, such a treatment of the subject as would show that the nature of existence renders...
Educating Generation Next
Young People, Teachers and Schooling in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Is the current industrial model of schooling capable of preparing young people for modern working life? This book provides an unsettling picture of the challenges young people face following the uncertainty of the Global Financial Crisis. It asks whether teachers and schooling are able to provide the skills needed in a contemporary global economy.