Social Aspects category: 6049 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
This book studies the major characteristics of the social pedagogical approach to early childhood education and care. It does so by investigating the distinctive elements of the Nordic approach and tradition. The cultural, educational, and ideological structures and values within the Nordic tradition...
Race, Gender and Educational Desire
Why black women succeed and fail
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
'This book is a great genealogy of black women's unrecognised contributions within both education and the wide social context. I think it constitutes an important piece of work that is totally missing from the existing literature'
- Diane Reay, Professor of Education, Cambridge University
Race,...
Social Analysis of Education
After the new sociology
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
First published in 1987, this book offers an ideological critique of the new sociology of education, with the aim to redeem understanding of the social and historical character of knowledge. It argues that with an historical and social grasp, university knowledge can be understood as a collective...
Praxis
Yugoslav Essays in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume of the Boston Studies is a distillation of one of the most creative and important movements in contemporary social theory. The articles repre sent the work of the so-called 'Praxis' group in Yugoslavia, a heterogeneous movement of philosophers, sociologists, political theorists, historians,...
Science as Social Existence
Heidegger and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
In this bold and original study, Jeff Kochan constructively combines the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) with Martin Heidegger’s early existential conception of science. Kochan shows convincingly that these apparently quite different approaches to science are, in fact, largely compatible,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The manner in which we variously come to an understanding of our world presents problems for us all, but the unified method by which we ought best to acquire such knowledge represents the particular problem of contemporary education. This important book seeks to explore some of the underlying practises...
The Happiness Effect
How Social Media is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Sexting. Cyberbullying. Narcissism. Social media has become the dominant force in young people's lives, and each day seems to bring another shocking tale of private pictures getting into the wrong hands, or a lament that young people feel compelled to share their each and every thought with the entire...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
This book answers key questions regarding social justice in education. Its central theme is how the education system, through its organization and practices, is implicated in the realisation of just or unjust social outcomes. In particular, the writers examine the ways in which the identities of individuals...
Spatial Social Thought
Local Knowledge in Global Science Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This volume presents perspectives on spatially construed knowledge systems and their struggle to interrelate. Western social sciences tend to be wrapped up in very specific, exclusionary discourses, and Northern and Southern knowledge systems are sidelined. Spatial Social Thought reimagines the social sciences as a place of encounter between all spatially bound, parochial knowledge systems.
Supplementary Schools and Ethnic Minority Communities
A Social Positioning Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
This book provides a unique perspective into the world of supplementary schooling, exploring both the social positioning of these schools and the ethnic minority communities they serve. The author presents a close examination of the establishment and functioning of supplementary schools which offers...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
This volume contains the English translation of Felix Kaufmann's (1895-1945) main work Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaften (1936). In this book, Kaufmann develops a general theory of knowledge of the social sciences in his role as a cross-border commuter between Husserl's phenomenology, Kelsen's...
Finalization in Science
The Social Orientation of Scientific Progress
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
These essays on Finalization in Science - The Social Orientation of Scientific Progress comprise a remarkable, problematic and controversial book. The authors propose a thesis about the social direction of scientific research which was the occasion of a lively and often bitter debate in Germany from...
Social Education for Peace
Foundations, Teaching, and Curriculum for Visionary Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Carter illuminates and validates the vital role of visioning in social education. The book features peace in social education with instructional recommendations, planning resources and descriptions of transdisciplinary learning. It elaborates mindful citizenship across social, environmental, ethical, geographic, economic and political realms.
More Like Life Itself
Simulations as Powerful and Purposeful Social Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
John Dewey wrote in multiple places that education should be an experience of the content and processes of life itself. Too often, social studies is taught in a way that tells students about real-life, but fails to engage them in the process of life for which Dewey advocated. The core purpose of simulations...