Social Aspects category: 6049 books
by Maxine Greene
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Special 2018 Edition
From the new Introduction by Janet L. Miller, Teachers College, Columbia University:
"Maxine Greene never claimed to be a visionary thinker. But forty years later, her trepidations detailed throughout 1978's Landscapes of Learning now appear unnervingly prescient....
Cooperative Learning
The Social and Intellectual Outcomes of Learning in Groups
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
This book recognizes the importance of cooperative learning, in contrast to the traditional classroom, as an effective approach to learning. Its coverage of the subject ranges across the educational spectrum, from pre-school years to university, and offers a fresh perspective on a topic that has gained...
Technology and the Virtues
A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
The 21st century offers a dizzying array of new technological developments: robots smart enough to take white collar jobs, social media tools that manage our most important relationships, ordinary objects that track, record, analyze and share every detail of our daily lives, and biomedical techniques...
Macroeconomic Aspects of Aging and Retirement of College and University Teachers
Indo-French Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This book explores the universal and highly topical issues of ageing and retirement. It places a particular focus on the macroeconomic aspects of the ageing and retirement of college and university teachers, through a case study of teachers and professors in France and India. While the ageing of the...
Aircraft Stories
Decentering the Object in Technoscience
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
In Aircraft Stories noted sociologist of technoscience John Law tells “stories” about a British attempt to build a military aircraft—the TSR2. The intertwining of these stories demonstrates the ways in which particular technological projects can be understood in a world of complex contexts.
Law...
by Judith Ireson
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2008
Learners, Learning and Educational Activity offers a new and creative approach to the psychology of learning. The central idea in the book is that learning in schools and other educational settings is best understood by paying attention to both individual learners and the educational contexts in which...
Social Efficiency and Instrumentalism in Education
Critical Essays in Ontology, Phenomenology, and Philosophical Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Distinct among contemporary philosophical studies focused on education, this book engages the history of phenomenological thought as it moves from philosophy proper (the European phenomenological-hermeneutic tradition) through curriculum studies. It thus presents the "best of both worlds"...
Structural Realism
Structure, Object, and Causality
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Structural realism has rapidly gained in popularity in recent years, but it has splintered into many distinct denominations, often underpinned by diverse motivations. There is, no monolithic position known as ‘structural realism,’ but there is a general convergence on the idea that a central role...
Of Human Potential (Routledge Revivals)
An Essay in the Philosophy of Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The concept of potential plays a prominent role in the thinking of parents, educators and planners the world over. Although this concept accurately reflects central features of human nature, its current use perpetuates traditional myths of fixity, harmony and value, calculated to cause untold mischief...
Pragmatic Idealism and Scientific Prediction
A Philosophical System and Its Approach to Prediction in Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This monograph analyzes Nicholas Rescher’s system of pragmatic idealism. It also looks at his approach to prediction in science. Coverage highlights a prominent contribution to a central topic in the philosophy and methodology of science.
The author offers a full characterization of Rescher’s...
Emerging Pervasive and Ubiquitous Aspects of Information Systems
Cross-Disciplinary Advancements
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
The concept of pervasive and ubiquitous computing challenges our existing understanding of human-computer interaction, as it suggests a world in which computers become increasingly integrated into our daily lives. Emerging Pervasive and Ubiquitous Aspects of Information Systems: Cross-Disciplinary Advancements...
Science Communication
Culture, Identity and Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
This book describes current practices in science communication, from citizen science to Twitter storms, and celebrates this diversity through case studies and examples. However, the authors also reflect on how scholars and practitioners can gain better insight into science communication through new...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
What kind of stuff is the world made of? What is the nature or substance of things? These are ontological questions, and they are usually answered with respect to the objects of science. The objects of technoscience tell a different story that concerns the power, promise and potential of things –...
Faith Schools, Tolerance and Diversity
Exploring the Influence of Education on Students' Attitudes of Tolerance
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
This book examines the effects of faith schools on social cohesion and inter-ethnic relations. Faith schools constitute approximately one third of all state-maintained schools and two fifths of the independent schools in England. Nevertheless, they have historically been, and remain, controversial....