Social Aspects category: 6049 books
The Longings and Limits of Global Citizenship Education
The Moral Pedagogy of Schooling in a Cosmopolitan Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
As the world seemingly gets smaller and smaller, schools around the globe are focusing their attention on expanding the consciousness and competencies of their students to prepare them for the conditions of globalization. Global citizenship education is rapidly growing in popularity because it captures...
by Allan Luke
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
This collection of Allan Luke’s key writings on educational policy, curriculum, and school reform follows the development and use of critical discourse analyses to study educational policy and practice. Turning to a series of narrative analyses of the relationship between politics, culture, economics,...
Feeling Academic in the Neoliberal University
Feminist Flights, Fights and Failures
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
This book offers a contemporary account of what it means to inhabit academia as a privilege, risk, entitlement or a failure. Drawing on international perspectives from a range of academic disciplines, it asks whether feminist spaces can offer freedom or flight from the corporatized and commercialized...
by Allen Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
We live during a crucial period of human history on Earth. Anthropogenic environmental changes are occurring on global scales at unprecedented rates. Despite a long history of environmental intervention, never before has the collective impact of human behaviors threatened all of the major bio-systems...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Twenty-five years ago, Gerald Holton's Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought introduced a wide audience to his ideas. Holton argued that from ancient times to the modern period, an astonishing feature of innovative scientific work was its ability to hold, simultaneously, deep and opposite commitments...
by Virginia MOREIRA
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
SUMÁRIO
PREFÁCIO À EDIÇÃO BRASILEIRA
Por Alfredo Naffah Neto
PREFÁCIO À EDIÇÃO CHILENA
Por Lucrecia Rovalleti
INTRODUÇÃO
PARTE I
OS LIMITES DA ABORDAGEM CENTRADA NA PESSOA
CAPÍTULO 1
DA TEORIA NÃO-DIRETIVA...
Education at War
The Fight for Students of Color in America's Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Will appeal to researchers, educators, policy actors, youth and community advocates as well as general readers interested in the future of education in America.
Philosophy in Education
Questioning and Dialogue in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Philosophy in Education: Questioning and Dialog in K-12 Classrooms is a textbook in the fields of pre-college philosophy and philosophy of education, intended for philosophers and philosophy students, K-12 classroom teachers, administrators and educators, policymakers, and pre-college practitioners...
Globetrotting or Global Citizenship?
Perils and Potential of International Experiential Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Globetrotting or Global Citizenship? explores the broad range of international experiential learning options available to Canadian students, as well as the opportunities and the ethical dilemmas that come with them. Combining practical advice with critical examinations of international experiential...
Critical Concepts in Queer Studies and Education
An International Guide for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This book advances a broad constellation of critical concepts situated within the field of queer studies and education. Collectively, the concepts take up a cross-section of scholarship that speaks to various political, epistemological, theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical concerns. Given...
Real Drugs in a Virtual World
Drug Discourse and Community Online
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded research project on drug information and online drug-related communities. The editors of this pivotal text, Edward Murguia, Ann Lessem, and Melissa Tackett-Gibson, elevate the debate about drug use and the Internet from a polemic discourse to social scientific investigation....
Entrepreneurial Literary Theory
A Debate on Research and the Future of Academia
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Across the world at present, researchers and teachers are being exhorted to become entrepreneurial. Universities are being restructured accordingly. The debate presented in this book considers what that involves and portends for academia. Literary studies are often regarded as the most resistant to...
Neither Beast Nor God
The Dignity of the Human Person
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2009
Appeals to “human dignity” are at the core of many of the most contentious social and political issues of our time. But these appeals suggest different and at times even contradictory ways of understanding the term. Is dignity something we all share equally, and therefore the reason we all ought...
Truth in Science, the Humanities and Religion
Balzan Symposium 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
by the Academies of the two countries – to the Italian-Swiss University of Lugano for the two-day-Symposium. The question of the meaning of “truth” is central to many areas of contemporary debate, whether between those subscribing to a post-Enlightenment view of the world and those who seek...