Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
Postgenomics
Perspectives on Biology after the Genome
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Ten years after the Human Genome Project’s completion the life sciences stand in a moment of uncertainty, transition, and contestation. The postgenomic era has seen rapid shifts in research methodology, funding, scientific labor, and disciplinary structures. Postgenomics is transforming our understanding...
Listening to Children
Being and becoming
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Through a series of exquisite encounters with children, and through a lucid opening up of new aspects of poststructuralist theorizing, Bronwyn Davies opens up new ways of thinking about, and intra-acting with, children.
This book carefully guides the reader through a wave of thought that turns...
Understanding School Refusal
A Handbook for Professionals in Education, Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
` Combining educational and clinical perspectives, and with extensive use of case studies, the authors present recent research into the mental health problems associated with school refusal, such as anxiety and panic attacks, as well as the role that parental support plays in their children's school...
Meeting the Child in Steiner Kindergartens
An Exploration of Beliefs, Values and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
What can early years practitioners learn from Steiner kindergartens?
What is distinctive about Steiner kindergarten teachers’ ways of getting to know children?
As demands for accountability in Early Years settings continue to grow, external pressure to assess children and to measure...
Pupil Strategies (RLE Edu L)
Explorations in the Sociology of the School
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
What do pupils actually do in school? There are remarkably few studies that take the pupils’ perspective and reconstruct experience from their point of view within the context of their own cultures and careers. This volume brings together a number of research studies on various aspects of how pupils...
Atom and Individual in the Age of Newton
On the Genesis of the Mechanistic World View
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this stimulating investigation, Gideon Freudenthal has linked social history with the history of science by formulating an interesting proposal: that the supposed influence of social theory may be seen as actual through its co herence with the process of formation of physical concepts. The reinterpre...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
This book critically examines how race is constructed globally to intersect gender, class, sexuality, language ability and religion and answers some very important questions, like how does anti-black racism manifest itself within various contexts? Chapters in the book use the ‘Black and White paradigm’...
by Ernest Havet
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Les Lettres provinciales sont des pamphlets jansénistes, mais le jansénisme contient à la fois une théologie et une morale ; je vais le considérer successivement sous ces deux aspects.
by Neil Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
This book engages with the political, philosophical and policy debates around contemporary democratic socialism and state education. It examines contemporary education and education systems, as well as democratic socialism in the context of the complex political world we live in currently. It takes...
by Paul Langevin
Language: French
Release Date: May 29, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: May 29, 2016
Conférence faite à la Société française de Physique le 26 mars 1913.
La notion de masse, fondamentale en mécanique, peut être introduite de trois manières différentes qui correspondent à trois aspects du phénomène...
Gender Justice, Education and Equality
Creating Capabilities for Girls' and Women's Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This book reframes gender and education issues from a feminist and capabilities perspective through a multi-generational study of women as teachers. It explores how different understandings of gender, equality and education generate a variety of approaches with which to pursue gender equality in education....
Factories for learning
Making race, class and inequality in the neoliberal academy
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Over half of England’s secondary schools are now academies. While their impact on achievement has been debated, the social and cultural outcomes prompted by this neoliberal educational model has received less scrutiny. This book draws on original research based at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated...
Social Aesthetics and the School Environment
A Case Study of the Chivalric Ethos
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This book theorizes aesthetic classroom management through a hermeneutical approach with three fields of literature: history and philosophical foundations of chivalry, chivalry’s promulgation through the Victorian Age, and parallel issues of identity in twenty-first century teacher education. The...
by Robert A. Wilson, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
An examination of eugenic thinking past and present, from forced sterilization to prenatal screening, drawing on experience with those who survived eugenics.
Part science and part social movement, eugenics emerged in the late nineteenth century as a tool for human improvement. In response to...