Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Digital Cognitive Technologies
Epistemology and Knowledge Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Digital Cognitive Technologies is an interdisciplinary book which assesses the socio-technical stakes of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), which are at the core of the ?Knowledge Society.? This book addresses eight major issues, analyzed by authors writing from a Human and Social...
Youth in Contemporary India
Images of Identity and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
This book endeavors to be a study of identity in Indian urban youth. It is concerned with understanding the psychological themes of conformity, rebellion, individuation, relatedness, initiative and ideological values which pervade youths’ search for identity within the Indian cultural milieu, specifically...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science brings together original essays by both feminist and mainstream philosophers of science that examine issues at the intersections of feminism, science, and the philosophy of science. Contributors explore parallels and tensions between feminist approaches...
Higher Education in Vietnam
Flexibility, Mobility and Practicality in the Global Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Higher and tertiary education are crucial to modern nations. Vietnam has great potential, but its universities and colleges are poor-performing, under-funded and slow to change compared to those in neighbouring East Asian nations. This book analyses the problem and provides constructive solutions for the reform of higher education.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
The immense changes that the world is undergoing in terms of globalization and migration of peoples have had a profound effect on cultures and identities. The question is whether this means shifts in religious identities for women and men in different contexts, whether such shifts are seen as beneficial,...
Higher Education in the BRICS Countries
Investigating the Pact between Higher Education and Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In spite of the increasing attention attributed to the rise in prominence of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries, few studies have looked at the ways in which broader social expectations with respect to the role of higher education across the BRICS have changed, or...
Upside-Down Gods
Gregory Bateson's World of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Science’s conventional understanding of environment as an inert material resource underlies our unwillingness to acknowledge the military-industrial role in ongoing ecological catastrophes. In a crucial challenge to modern science’s exclusive attachment to materialist premises, Bateson reframed...
Deus in Machina
Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
The essays in this volume explore how two domains of human experience and action—religion and technology—are implicated in each other. Contrary to commonsense understandings of both religion (as an “otherworldly” orientation) and technology (as the name for tools, techniques, and expert knowledges...
Il tutto e il niente
Sulla bellezza dell'universo
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 11, 2019
«Un libro che ci conduce abilmente nel cuore degli enigmi del mondo»
«Die Zeit»
Interrogato da un amico artista che gli chiese se uno scienziato, studiando una rosa, non ne uccidesse la bellezza, Richard Feynman rispose che lui riusciva senz’altro a percepirne lo splendore, ma vedeva...
Teaching with Sociological Imagination in Higher and Further Education
Contexts, Pedagogies, Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
This book uses research and personal stories from university lecturers to explore pedagogical strategies that illuminate how students’ minds can be ‘switched on’ in order to unlock their extraordinary potential. It presents diverse ways to create inspiring learning environments, in chapters...
Higher Education Policy Convergence and the Bologna Process
A Cross-National Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
What are the principal drivers of recent higher education reforms? This study investigates whether the soft governance mechanism of transnational communication has evoked cross-national policy harmonization. Results suggest that the Bologna Process has triggered substantial policy harmonization beyond general policy convergence.
Communicating User Experience
Applying Local Strategies Research to Digital Media Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Communicating User Experience: Applying Local Strategies Researchto Digital Media Design examines how Local Strategies Research (LSR) helps investigate user experiences with digital media. This edited collection uses case studies to examine the way we communicate in the digital age whether between...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
As a social justice endeavor, one of the goals of inclusive education is to bolster the education of all students by promoting equal opportunities for all, and investing sufficient support, curriculum and pedagogy that cultivates high selfconcepts, emphasizes students’ strengths rather than weaknesses,...
Asian Migrants and Education
The Tensions of Education in Immigrant Societies and Among Migrant Groups
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The contributors to this volume explore the close relationship between education and the molding of modern immigrant societies through case studies of either Asian migrants or Asian immigrant societies. This volume will be especially useful for researchers, educators, and students intent on understanding some of the critical challenges faced by a globalizing world.