Social Aspects category: 6049 books

This new textbook offers a wide-ranging discussion of the key debates within the sociology of education. Covering everything from policymaking and the curriculum, to class, ethnicity and gender, and the ways that they and other social divisions intersect to produce inequalities, this timely publication...

Race and Gender in the Classroom explores social inequalities in education in the current era of “post-racial” and “post-gendered” politics. In particular, this book illuminates the obstacles that mitigate the potential for teachers to serve as social justice advocates in the classroom by...

(A5, 188 PÁGINAS) - A burguesia e / ou o capitalismo, antagonista do materialismo dialetivo da história, inconformada com o suposto “fim do capitalismo” preconizado por Marx, como medida ideológica reacionária, pode-se afirmar, nesse sentido , vai passar a usar a ideologia como um verdadeiro...

(A5, 228 PÁGINAS) - A obsolescência programada - globalização da globalização e dos principais fundamentos do mundo Neoliberal e Pós-moderno capitalista - trouxe para a sociedade planetária problemas que ela não sabe e não sabe resolver. Problemas relacionados às dimensões humanas,...

In this book you will find over 150 role plays, micro (quick) role plays, creative activities, and guided imagery which has been developed and used for over 33 years. Everyday people can use these activities to have fun with children in the 8 to 11+ age range, and professionals can take advantage...

Education, Self-consciousness and Social Action reconstructs the Hegelian concept of education, Bildung, and shows that this concept could serve as a powerful alternative to current psychologist notions of learning. Taking a Hegelian perspective, Stojanov claims that Bildung should be interpreted...

Autoethnography is a unique discipline which steps inside and outside the self to experience, embody and express social and cultural meaning. At once a performative, political and poetic genre of research writing, it holds the potential to uncover the ‘heart of the world’, if only for a moment....

This book investigates the reasons why the traditional psychological understanding of bullying fails those affected, and deconstructs how bullying is shaped by prominent discourse. By drawing on poststructuralist feminist theory Victoria Rawlings highlights the social and cultural inequalities too...

A full executive summary of Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread--The Lessons from a New Science by Alex Pentland. This is not a chapter-by-chapter summary. Rather, the author takes an holistic approach, reorganizing and breaking down the content for easier understanding where necessary, and cutting...

Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China. In 2008, the total of Internet users in China had reached 253 million (in comparison with 22.5 million in 2001). Yet, despite rapid growth, the...

(A5, 112 P.) - Today, at the dawn of the 21st century, according to more recent UN data, over one billion people (in their great majorities in poor and/or underdeveloped countries of Africa, Asia and South America) are affected by states of poverty extreme. That is, approx. from 15% to 20%...

There is a mutual dependence between poverty and academic achievement, creative pedagogies for low-income pupils, school models that ‘beat the odds’, and the resiliency of low-income families dedicated to the academic success of their children. This book examines the connection between poverty...

The Social Foundations Reader is meant for undergraduate and graduate students in introductory foundations of education classes. No other contemporary reader provides such a broad and yet critical view of the issues typically addressed in an introductory foundations course. Instead, most provide a...

The authors examine youths' practices in digital culture affecting social change, pedagogy, and creative learning practices. Knowledge about these practices is discussed, in which learning, knowledge sharing, distinct social contexts, pedagogical relationships, and artistic creative inquiry are examined in diverse formal and informal environments.