Elizabeth Rata: 2 books
by Roxann Prazniak, Arif Dirlik, John Brown Childs
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2001
This ambitious work provides a unique statement on the question of place-based activism and its relationship to powerful forces of international capital. Arguing that specific places around the world are sites for the defense and enhancement of daily life in the context of rapidly expanding global...
by Elizabeth Rata
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
This book explores the decline of the teaching of epistemic, conceptual knowledge in schools, its replacement with everyday social knowledge, and its relation to changes in the division of labor within the global economy. It argues that the emphasis on social knowledge in postmodern and social constructionist...