Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Mobility, Education and Employability in the European Union
Inside Erasmus
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
This book takes an in-depth look at the European Commission’s Erasmus programme. In its current Erasmus+ format, the programme supports international exchange visits among students, trainees, volunteers and academic members of staff with a view to enhancing employability and encouraging intercultural...
Nuclear Power and Public Policy
The Social and Ethical Problems of Fission Technology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book grew out of projects funded by the Kentucky Human ities Council in 1974 and. 1975 and by the Environmental Protec tion Agency in 1976 and 1977. As a result of the generosity of these two agencies, I was able to study the logical, methodological, and ethical assumptions inherent in the...
Education, Sustainability and the Ecological Social Imaginary
Connective Education and Global Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This book analyses the evidence for global change, and suggests that the Earth is going through a profound transformation, caused in large part by human action. Land, oceans, polar regions and the atmosphere are all being deeply affected by the human population's lifestyle: what should the educational...
Digital Citizenship in Action
Empowering Students to Engage in Online Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
For years, much of the available curricula for teaching digital citizenship focused on “don’ts.” Don’t share addresses or phone numbers. Don’t give out passwords. Don’t bully other students. But the conversation then shifted and had many asking, “Why aren’t we teaching kids the power...
Epiphany Z
Eight Radical Visions for Transforming Your Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
"Epiphany Z" is Futurist Thomas Frey’s dynamic approach to envisioning, comprehending, and ultimately thriving in the radically different futures emerging around us at the speed of light.
Frey’s unparalleled ability to detect emerging trends from the smallest of clues gives him...
A Deadly Wandering
A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
"Deserves a spot next to Fast Food Nation and To Kill a Mockingbird in America’s high school curriculums. To say it may save lives is self-evident.” —New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, Chrisitian...
The Night Sky, Updated and Expanded Edition
Soul and Cosmos: The Physics and Metaphysics of the Stars and Planets
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Ever since Homo sapiens first looked up at the stars, we as a species have been looking for meaning in the mysteries of the night sky. Over the millennia, as our knowledge, science, and technology developed, the stories we told ourselves about the universe and our place in it developed as well. In...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
How can discerning critical hope enable us to develop innovative forms of teaching, learning and social practices that begin to address issues of marginalization, privilege and access across different contexts?
At this millennial point in history, questions of cynicism, despair and hope arise...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Critical Race Theory (CRT) explains and challenges the persistence of racial discrimination throughout the world today, addressing issues such as racism, post-colonialism and systems of apartheid. Despite claims we live in a post-racial era, equality laws are under threat in the UK and evidence of...
Women Workers' Education, Life Narratives and Politics
Geographies, Histories, Pedagogies
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This book highlights the catalytic role of workers’ education in mobilizing political activism and women’s involvement in labour struggles and politics. Through a comprehensive study of the gendered aspects of workers’ education it explores the intellectual lives of women workers. Drawing on...
Semantic Web Personalization and Context Awareness
Management of Personal Identities and Social Networking
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
The Semantic Web has evolved as a blueprint for a knowledge-based framework aimed at crossing the chasm from the current Web of unstructured information resources to a Web equipped with metadata and oriented to delegating tasks to software agents. Semantic Web Personalization and Context Awareness: Management...
Digital Education
Opportunities for Social Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
A collection of content-based chapters and case studies examining the pedagogical potential and realities of digital literacies in education. The book aims to examine a number of foundational aspects of Web 2.0 technologies and social media applications and to understand the implications for teaching, learning, and professional development.
The Methodological Dilemma
Creative, critical and collaborative approaches to qualitative research
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2008
This thought-provoking book challenges the way research is planned and undertaken and equips researchers with a variety of creative and imaginative solutions to the dilemmas of method and representation that plague qualitative research.
Fascinating and inspiring reading for any researcher in...
The Spike
How Our Lives Are Being Transformed By Rapidly Advancing Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2001
The rate at which technology is changing our world--not just on a global level like space travel and instant worldwide communications but on the level of what we choose to wear, where we live, and what we eat--is staggeringly fast and getting faster all the time. The rate of change has become so fast...