Social Aspects category: 6049 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
This book presents recent advancements in positive psychology, specifically its application across broad areas of current interest. Chapters include submissions from various international authors in the field and cover discussion and presentation of relevant research, theories, and applications. The...
Aufbau- und Ablauforganisation - Inhalte, Ziele und Notwendigkeiten bei Nonprofit Organisationen
Inhalte, Ziele und Notwendigkeiten bei Nonprofit Organisationen
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Social Pedagogy / Social Work, grade: 1,3, Catholic University of Applied Sciences Saarbrücken , course: Organisationslehre - Organisationstheoretische Grundlagen und Organisationsformen, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Die...
Discovering Reality
Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This collection of essays, first published two decades ago, presents central feminist critiques and analyses of natural and social sciences and their philosophies. This work provides a splendid opportunity for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy and the social sciences to...
by Paul Smeyers
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2010
Statistics are everywhere. Their power and their undoubted efficacy in many areas have given rise to faith in measurement and metrics. More of them will tell us all that we need to know. Their use carries with it a number of presuppositions: that reality can be satisfactorily represented and that...
School, Personal and Familial Factors Affecting the Academic Performance of Students At Risk with Learning Disabilities
Basis for Designing a Supportive Classroom Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Abstract from the year 2015 in the subject Social Pedagogy / Social Work, grade: Grade 8, , course: Ph.D. in Educational Management, language: English, abstract: The main purpose of this study was to determine the specific learning disabilities, level of self efficacy, self esteem multiple intelligences,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
The use of imagination can lead to greater outcomes in problem solving, innovation, and critical thinking. By providing access to creative outlets, productivity increases in schools, businesses, and other professional settings. Exploring the Benefits of Creativity in Education, Media, and the Arts is...
by Joyce VanTassel-Baska, Ed.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Patterns and Profiles of Promising Learners From Poverty provides a comprehensive review of the issues surrounding the education and inclusion of promising students from poverty in gifted and talented programs.
A School in Ren Village
A Historical-Ethnographical Study of China's Educational Changes
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
By adopting oral history and fieldwork methods and exploring historical data, this book chronologically depicts the development of the schools and education in a village in North China over a century. The book reveals how education and school life in the rural village are being impacted not only...
Children, Literacy and Ethnicity
Reading Identities in the Primary School
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book explores children's meaning making of the books they learn to read with, especially relating to the intersections of race, gender and class. Based on research using a participative, innovative design with young children, issues of identity, belonging and classroom hierarchies are explored in complex and poignant ways by the children.
Biology and Criminology
The Biosocial Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
Numerous criminologists have noted their dissatisfaction with the state of criminology. The need for a new paradigm for the 21st century is clear. However, many distrust biology as a factor in studies of criminal behavior, whether because of limited exposure or because the orientation of criminology...
by M. Bunzl
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this book Martin Bunzl considers the prospects for a general and comprehensive account of explanation, given the variety of interests that prompt explanations in science. Bunzl argues that any successful account of explanation must deal with two very different contexts - one static and one dynamic....
Contentious Curricula
Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
This book compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. It identifies striking similarities between proponents of Afrocentrism and creationism, accounts for their differential outcomes, and draws important conclusions for the study of culture, organizations,...
by S. Marginson, E. Sawir
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Takes a critical look at present approaches to international education, focusing on the intercultural potential that it offers but mostly fails to deliver. The underlying premise of this profound, engaging book is that international education can be a transforming intercultural experience for hosts as well as visitors.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
In an era when many young people feel marginalized and excluded, this is the first comprehensive, critical account to shed new light on the trouble of ‘belonging’ and how young people in schools understand, enact and experience ‘belonging’ (and non-belonging). It traverses diverse dimensions...