Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Rudolf Steiner
The Relevance of Waldorf Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
This book covers Rudolf Steiner’s biography, presented from an educational point of view and also unfolds the different aspects of Steiner’s educational thought in Waldorf Education. His point of view is unique in that it relates education to a wide horizon of different contexts, such as social,...
by Harold Silver
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
This book reviews the educational experience of the 1960s and 1970s and to suggest ways of approaching major contemporary themes such as equality, accountability and standards. The author underlines a nineteenth and twentieth-century sociological tradition in analysing education and covers a range...
by Sabine Roeser
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Risks arising from technologies raise important ethical issues. Although technologies such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, ICT, and nuclear energy can improve human well-being, they may also convey risks for our well-being due to, for example, abuse, unintended side-effects, accidents, and pollution....
Information Systems and Modern Society
Social Change and Global Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
The emergence of the digital age has transformed the way society communicates as well as disseminates information. Information Systems and Modern Society: Social Change and Global Development is a comprehensive collection of research on the emergence of information technology and its effect on society....
Educational Values and Cognitive Instruction
Implications for Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This volume is a comprehensive guide to state-of-the-art research on thinking, cognitive instruction, social values, and reform. Cognitive instruction for at-risk students is discussed in great detail along with a thorough examination of the teaching of thinking skills from the viewpoint of educational...
by Julio E. Rubio, Elda C. Morales, Ntumbua Tshipamba
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Technology is the most distinctive characteristic of a knowledge society; however, technology is not stable, and it is defined by change and speed. Furthermore, the complexity of the sociotechnical systems that generate technology is not accessible to the average citizen. For this reason, the goal...
Ethnographic Research and Analysis
Anxiety, Identity and Self
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
This book reflects on the contemporary use of ethnography across both social and natural sciences, focusing in particular on organizational ethnography, autoethnography, and the role of storytelling. The chapters interrogate and reframe longstanding ethnographic discussions, including those concerning...
Transhumanism
Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Transhumanism posits that humanity is on the verge of rapid evolutionary change as a result of emerging technologies and increased global consciousness. However, this insight is dismissed as a naive and controversial reframing of posthumanist thought, having also been vilified as “the most dangerous...
by David Skrbina
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
What is technology? Why does it have such power in our lives? Why does it seemingly progress of its own accord, and without regard to social or environmental well-being? The quest for the essence of technology is an old one, with roots in the pre-Socratic philosophy of ancient Greece. It was then...
Language, Nation, and Identity in the Classroom
Legacies of Modernity and Colonialism in Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language, Nation, and Identity in the Classroom critiques the normalizing aspects of schooling and the taken-for-granted assumptions in education about culture, identity, language, and learning. The text applies theories of postmodernism, postcolonialism, and other critical cultural theories from...
Innovations in Narrative and Metaphor
Methodologies and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
This book pursues an interdisciplinary approach to open a discourse on innovative methodologies and practices associated with narrative and metaphor. Scholars from diverse fields in the humanities and social sciences report on how they use narrative and/or metaphor in their scholarship/research to...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Informed by the most up-to-date research from around the world, as well as examples of good practice, this handbook analyzes values education in the context of a range of school-based measures associated with student wellbeing. These include social, emotional, moral and spiritual growth – elements...
The Leisure Commons
A Spatial History of Web 2.0
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
There is much excitement about Web 2.0 as an unprecedented, novel, community-building space for experiencing, producing, and consuming leisure, particularly through social network sites. What is needed is a perspective that is invested in neither a utopian or dystopian posture but sees historical...
Taking Care of the Future
Moral Education and British Humanitarianism in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Taking Care of the Future examines the moral dimensions and transformative capacities of education and humanitarianism through an intimate portrayal of learners, volunteers, donors, and educators at a special needs school in South Africa and a partnering UK-based charity. Drawing on his professional...