Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Antipositivist Theories of the Sciences
Critical Rationalism, Critical Theory and Scientific Realism
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The sciences are too important to be left exclusively to scientists, and indeed they have not been. The structure of scientific knowledge, the role of the sciences in society, the appropriate social contexts for the pursuit of scientific inquiry, have long been matters for reflection and debate about...
Diploma of Whiteness
Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917–1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2003
In Brazil, the country with the largest population of African descent in the Americas, the idea of race underwent a dramatic shift in the first half of the twentieth century. Brazilian authorities, who had considered race a biological fact, began to view it as a cultural and environmental condition....
Youth Media Matters
Participatory Cultures and Literacies in Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In an information age of youth social movements, Youth Media Matters examines how young people are using new media technologies to tell stories about themselves and their social worlds. They do so through joint efforts in a range of educational settings and media environments, including high school...
Paradigm and Ideology in Educational Research (RLE Edu L)
The Social Functions of the Intellectual
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This book explores the complex social assumptions and values that underlie research programmes about schools. The analysis of educational research draws upon American and European scholarships in the sociology of knowledge, social philosophy and the history and sociology of science. The discussion...
by V. Carrington
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
There can be little doubt that ours is a society riding the crest of vast and profound social and economic change. The material conditions and social landscapes through which we experience our lives are increasingly an unchartered sea of unanticipated shift and hidden consequence and many of us have...
Children and the Changing Family
Between Transformation and Negotiation
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
This timely and thought-provoking book explores how social and family change are colouring the experience of childhood. The book is centred around three major changes: parental employment, family composition and ideology. The authors demonstrate how children's families are transformed in accordance...
Juárez Girls Rising
Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Working-class girls in Ciudad Juárez grow up in a context marked by violence against women, the devastating effects of drug cartel wars, unresponsive and abusive authorities, and predatory U.S. capitalism: under constantly precarious conditions, these girls are often struggling to shape their lives...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
This book examines the multiple relationships between education, pedagogy, and social change in Latin America and beyond through a discussion of critical theory in education and its uses in Latin American society today. An international group of contributors discuss both individual countries and the region as a whole.
Education and Social Control
A Study in Progressive Primary Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
First published in 1975, this book offers a critique of some of the ‘new perspectives’ in the sociology of education. This is achieved through a case study of a progressive child centred school.
The book suggests that a liberal approach to education fails to appreciate how thoroughly a...
The Universe of Experience
A Worldview Beyond Science and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Modern experience forces philosophy and social thought to confront the basic problems of value. Is this life worth caring about? How can we find a way between the deceit of fanatical belief and despair? In the view of Lancelot Law Whyte, the essential challenge to mankind today is an underlying nihilism...
Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency
Decentralizing Epistemic Agency
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
The field of epistemology is undergoing significant changes. Primary among these changes is an ever growing appreciation for the role social influences play on one’s ability to acquire and assess knowledge claims. Arguably, social epistemology’s greatest influence on traditional epistemology is...
Classroom Interactions and Social Learning
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Today's classroom presents a wealth of opportunities for social interaction amongst pupils, leading to increased interest in teachers and researchers into the social nature of learning.
While classroom interaction can be a valuable tool for learning, it does not necessarily lead to useful learning...
Dot-Com Design
The Rise of a Usable, Social, Commercial Web
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
From dial-up to wi-fi, an engaging cultural history of the commercial web industry
In the 1990s, the World Wide Web helped transform the Internet from the domain of computer scientists to a playground for mass audiences. As URLs leapt off computer screens and onto cereal boxes, billboards,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Modern philosophy has benefited immensely from the intelligence, and sensitivity, the creative and critical energies, and the lucidity of Polish scholars. Their investigations into the logical and methodological foundations of mathematics, the physical and biological sciences, ethics and esthetics,...