Social Aspects category: 6049 books
An Introduction to Steiner Education
The Waldorf School
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
"To educate youth ... is to ennoble the mind, to fire the imagination, to fortify the will and to quicken initiative for life.' So writes Francis Edmunds in this inspiring, authoritative and popular introduction to Steiner (Waldorf) Education. Rudolf Steiner's educational system, well established...
Baudrillard, Youth, and American Film
Fatal Theory and Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Baudrillard, Youth, and American Film examines the portrayal of youth in American cinema with Jean Baudrillard's radical social theory and philosophical system. Kline uses Baudrillard's corpus to analyze the troubling effects of the portrayal of youth in American teen films, namely, its contribution...
The Next Fifty Years
Science in the First Half of the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A brilliant ensemble of the world’s most visionary scientists provides twenty-five original never-before-published essays about the advances in science and technology that we may see within our lifetimes.
Theoretical physicist and bestselling author Paul Davies examines the likelihood that...
Communication and Control
Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Communication and Control: Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions advocates a systems view of human communication in a time of intelligent, learning machines. This edited collection sheds new light on things as mundane yet still profoundly consequential (and seemingly “low-tech”) as push buttons,...
by Peter Kosso
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
A Summary of Scientific Method is a brief description of what makes science scientific. It is written in a direct, clear style that is accessible and informative for scientists and science students. It is intended to help science teachers explain how science works, highlighting strengths without ignoring...
Socialism and Modern Science
Darwin, Spencer, Marx
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Italian criminologist Enrico Ferri was one of the first in his field to focus on the social and economic causes of criminal behavior. His unique approach came about in part as a result of Ferri's own staunch support of socialism. In this compelling analysis, Ferri connects the dots between socialism and its applications and value in the sciences.
by John Dewey
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
The dean of American philosophers shares his views on methods of training students to think well. His considerations include inductive and deductive logic, interpreting facts, concrete and abstract thinking, the roles of activity, language, and observation, and many other aspects of thought training. This volume is essential reading for teachers and other education professionals.
Rethinking Human Enhancement
Social Enhancement and Emergent Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
This book discusses three possible human enhancement paradigms and explores how each involves different values, uses of technology, and different degrees and kinds of ethical concerns. A new framework is advanced that promotes technological innovation that serves the improvement of the human condition in a respectful and sustainable way.
Helping Young Refugees and Immigrants Succeed
Public Policy, Aid, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
In a unique effort, this book brings together, for the first time, scholarly analyses by eminent researchers of the historical, social, legal, and cultural influences on the young newcomers' lives as well as reports by practitioners in major aid organizations about the concrete work that their organizations have been carrying out.
by David Tresemer; Robert Schiappacasse
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
From the book: We are each meant to discover the connection from our individual soul to spiritual realities not encompassed by the normal senses, requiring supersensible perception. Images can offer powerful assistance.... However, we have forgotten about our own imagination, the creation of our own...
Turn On and Tune In
Psychedelics, Narcotics and Euphoriants
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Timothy Leary's advice to "tune in, turn on and drop out" was a 1960s exhortation to experiment with LSD, but humans had been consuming ergot alkaloids related to lysergic acid diethylamide for at least a thousand years. Opium has been around even longer with its medicinal uses being known to the...
Understanding Teenage Girls
Culture, Identity and Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Understanding Teenage Girls: Culture, Identity and Schooling focuses on a range of social phenomenon that impact the lives of adolescent females of color. The authors highlight the daily challenges that African-American, Chicana, and Puerto Rican teenage girls face with respect to peer and family...
Time for Science Education
How Teaching the History and Philosophy of Pendulum Motion can Contribute to Science Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The book's argument depends, as do most proposals in education, upon cer tain positions in the philosophy of education. I believe that education should be primarily concerned with developing understanding, with initiation into worth while traditions of intellectual achievement, and with developing...
Empowering Education
Critical Teaching for Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Ira Shor is a pioneer in the field of critical education who for over twenty years has been experimenting with learning methods. His work creatively adapts the ideas of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire for North American classrooms. In Empowering Education Shor offers a comprehensive theory and practice...