Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Reconceptualizing the Nature of Science for Science Education
Scientific Knowledge, Practices and Other Family Categories
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Prompted by the ongoing debate among science educators over ‘nature of science’, and its importance in school and university curricula, this book is a clarion call for a broad re-conceptualizing of nature of science in science education. The authors draw on the ‘family resemblance’ approach...
Engaging Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Possibility
From Blind to Transformative Optimism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Engaging Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Possibility is a cross-cultural case study of how people experience schooling in relation to their sense of time and optimism. César Augusto Rossatto examines how real-life situations and social structures influence people's construction of notions of possibilities....
Scholarly World, Private Worlds
Thinking Critically About Science, Religion, and Your Private Beliefs
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2001
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Scholarly World, Private Worlds: Thinking Critically About Science, Religion, and Your Private Beliefs
Karl D. Fezer
Xlibris, 434 pages, (paperback) $24.99, 9781401034146 (Reviewed: March 2014)
Informal logic is a discipline that examines the validity of...
Accelerating Academia
The Changing Structure of Academic Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Filip Vostal examines the changing nature of academic time, and analyzes the 'will to accelerate' that has emerged as a significant cultural and structural force in knowledge production.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Descartes once argued that, with sufficient effort and skill, a single scientist could uncover fundamental truths about our world. Contemporary science proves the limits of this claim. From synthesizing the human genome to predicting the effects of climate change, some current scientific research...
Governing Future Technologies
Nanotechnology and the Rise of an Assessment Regime
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Nanotechnology has been the subject of extensive ‘assessment hype,’ unlike any previous field of research and development. A multiplicity of stakeholders have started to analyze the implications of nanotechnology: Technology assessment institutions around the world, non-governmental organizations,...
by Geoffrey Walford
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Britain’s public (that is, its major independent) schools have a conspicuous role in the country’s social system, and as a result are the subject of a long-standing political debate. The discussion is generally founded on a stereotyped image of what these school may have been like in the 1950s...
The Nordic Education Model
'A School for All' Encounters Neo-Liberal Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
This book presents a detailed analysis of the educational model in Nordic European countries. It describes the traditional idea of education for all, which can be characterized by the right for every child to have an education of equal quality in a common school for all pupils regardless of social...
Race, Education, and Citizenship
Mobile Malaysians, British Colonial Legacies, and a Culture of Migration
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Transnational skilled migrants are often thought of as privileged migrants with flexible citizenship. This book challenges this assumption by examining the diverse migration trajectories, experiences and dilemmas faced by tertiary-educated mobile Malaysian migrants through a postcolonial lens. It...
Culture and Educational Policy in Hawai'i
The Silencing of Native Voices
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This comprehensive educational history of public schools in Hawai'i shows and analyzes how dominant cultural and educational policy have affected the education experiences of Native Hawaiians. Drawing on institutional theory as a scholarly lens, the authors focus on four historical cases representing...
Dilemmas of Schooling (RLE Edu L)
Teaching and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This study illuminates how the everyday activity of teachers raises profound economic, cultural, ethical, political and research issues, and provides a new and fruitful way of examining the practice of teaching. The first part of the book offers a detailed description of sensitively recorded school...
by Judith Andre
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
Those who work in bioethics and the medical humanities come from many different backgrounds, such as health care, philosophy, law, the social sciences, and religious studies. The work they do also varies widely: consulting on ethical issues in patient care, working with legislatures, dealing with...
Global Citizenship Education and the Crises of Multiculturalism
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
The notion of global citizenship education (GCE) has emerged in the international education discourse in the context of the United Nations Education First Initiative that cites developing global citizens as one of its goals. In this book, the authors argue that GCE offers a new educational perspective...
Foundations and Applications of Decision Theory
Volume II: Epistemic and Social Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
INTRODUCTION In the Spring of 1975 we held an international workshop on the Foundations and Application of Decision Theory at the University of Western Ontario. To help structure the workshop into ordered and manageable sessions we distri buted the following statement of our goals to all invited participants....