Social Aspects category: 6049 books
New Modes of Governance
Developing an Integrated Policy Approach to Science, Technology, Risk and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In modern global economies, how can we govern science, technology, risk and the environment more effectively? As the pace of innovation has increased, the governance agenda has, itself, been changing; policy-making is in a state of flux and governments are stressing the need for more integrated or...
The Labyrinth of Technology
A Preventive Technology and Economic Strategy as a Way Out
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Why does modern technology succeed so brilliantly in some respects and simultaneously fail in others? While he was completing a doctoral thesis in mechanical engineering in the late 60s and early 70s, Willem Vanderburg became convinced that the environmental crisis and the possible limits to growth...
Graduation with Civic Honors
Unlock the Power of <Br>Community Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2006
Society needs to focus on practical programs that can realize the possibilities of stronger community. Academic programs have a rich tradition of offering graduation with Honors and are capable of implementing Graduation With Civic Honors. The Graduation with Civic Honors program is the institutional...
The Culture of Science
How the Public Relates to Science Across the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
This book offers the first comparative account of the changes and stabilities of public perceptions of science within the US, France, China, Japan, and across Europe over the past few decades. The contributors address the influence of cultural factors; the question of science and religion and its...
Emerging Perspectives on African Development
Speaking Differently
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Emerging Perspectives on ‘African Development’: Speaking Differently discusses numerous areas of interest and issues about Africa, including contemporary challenges and possibilities of development. The book critically engages the many ways of presenting ‘development,’ highlighting the interplay...
Inclusive Education and the Issue of Change
Theory, Policy and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Exploring the theoretical, policy and classroom (pedagogical) dimensions of transformative change within the context of inclusive education policy and practice, this book documents how ideological presuppositions and professional practice should be transformed in order to meet learner diversity in effective and non-discriminatory ways.
Youth Work
An Institutional Ethnography of Youth Homelessness
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Combining institutional ethnography and community-based research, Youth Work is a sophisticated examination of the troubling experiences of young people living outside the care of parents or guardians, as well as of the difficulties of the frontline workers who take responsibility for assisting them....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Through multiple narratives reflecting the complexity of participatory action research partnerships for social justice, this book sheds light on the dialogic spaces that intentionally support community literacies and rhetorical practices for inquiry and change. Applying literacy as social practice,...
Choices and Constraints
Gender Differences in the Employment Expectations of Final Year Undergraduates in a University in Central China
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
This book seeks to investigate gender differences in final year undergraduates’ employment expectations of their starting jobs, including salary, occupational and working region expectations, and to identify factors that have contributed to gender differences in these expectations. It employs an...
Enemies
The Press vs. The American People
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
President Donald J. Trump drives liberals and the mainstream press berserk by labeling them the enemy of the American people. While the testy talking heads and petulant penmen in D.C. might disagree, all relevant evidence supports Trump’s claim. Hilariously told, Enemies: The Press vs. The American...
Global Teachers, Australian Perspectives
Goodbye Mr Chips, Hello Ms Banerjee
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
This is the first book on global teachers and the increasingly important phenomenon of ‘brain circulation’ in the global teaching profession. A teaching qualification is a passport to an international professional career: the global teacher is found in more and more classrooms around the world...
Teachers in Trouble
An Exploration of the Normative Character of Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 1997
The teacher who has an affair with a student. The teacher who is a transvestite. The teacher who advocates personal beliefs. These are 'teachers in trouble.' Their behaviour, whether it occurs in the classroom or off the job, offends the community and brings down censure from the school board.
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New Managerialism in Education
Commercialization, Carelessness and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
This book examines the impact of neo-liberal reform on the traditional caring ethos of public services such as education, exploring how these reforms influence the appointment and experiences of senior management across the education sector.
Neoliberalism and Technoscience
Critical Assessments
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the connection between processes of neoliberalization and the advancement and transformation of technoscience. Drawing on a range of theoretical insights, it explores a variety of issues including the digital revolution and the rise of immaterial culture,...