Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Future Consciousness
The Path to Purposeful Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
How do our unique conscious minds reflect and amplify nature’s vast evolutionary process? This book provides a scientifically informed, psychologically holistic approach to understanding and enhancing our future consciousness, serving as a guide for creating a realistic, constructive, and ethical...
Ipsative Assessment
Motivation through Marking Progress
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Ipsative assessment is a powerful new approach that provokes a radical rethink of the purposes and methods of assessment. This book presents a case for partially replacing competitive assessment with ipsative assessment, and it explores the possibilities and the challenges with research evidence and case studies.
Researching Biology and Evolution in the Gulf States
Networks of Science in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Officials and religious scholars in the Gulf states have repeatedly banned the teaching and researching of the theory of evolution because of its association with atheism. But Jörg Matthias Determann argues here that, despite official prohibition, research on biological evolution has flourished,...
Pedagogic Rights and Democratic Education
Bernsteinian explorations of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
The basis of Bernstein’s sociology of education lays in is his theorisation of the different approaches to curriculum, pedagogy and assessment and the implications for pedagogic rights and social justice. This edited collection presents 15 empirical case studies and theoretical accounts from 22...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Some of the most prominent sociologists working in education today have collaborated to address a wide range of empirical and theoretical issues. Adopting an international perspective, this book foregrounds cutting-edge research that highlights both the diversity and complexity of understanding education in society.
Genetic Databases
Socio-Ethical Issues in the Collection and Use of DNA
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Genetic Databases offers a timely analysis of the underlying tensions, contradictions and limitations of the current regulatory frameworks for, and policy debates about, genetic databases. Drawing on original empirical research and theoretical debates in the fields of sociology, anthropology and legal...
The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism
Heidegger, Marx, Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
In The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism, Arthur Kroker explores the future of the 21st century in the language of technological destiny. Presenting Martin Heidegger, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Nietzsche as prophets of technological nihilism, Kroker argues that every aspect of contemporary...
Marginalized Reproduction
Ethnicity, Infertility and Reproductive Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Worldwide, over 75 million people are involuntarily childless, a devastating experience for many with significant consequences for the social and psychological well-being of women in particular. Despite greater levels of infertility and strong cultural meanings attached to having children, little...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
That concern about human genetics is at the top of many lists of issues requiring intense discussion from scientific, political, social, and ethical points of view is today no surprise. It was in the spirit of attempting to establish the basis for intelligent discussion of the issues involved that...
Access to Education in Europe
A Framework and Agenda for System Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
This book identifies key elements of an international framework to develop systems-level change to promote access to education, including higher education, for socio-economically marginalized groups. It is based on interviews with senior government officials and senior management in universities,...
New Lines
Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
New Lines takes the pulse of a society increasingly drawn to the power of the digital map, examining the conceptual and technical developments of the field of geographic information science as this work is refracted through a pervasive digital culture. Matthew W. Wilson draws together archival research...
by M. Danaher, J. Cook, P. Coombes
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This collection provides evidence-based strategies for conducting effective and ethical education research with individuals and groups who are marginalised from mainstream society. The book explores circus and fairground communities, disabled vocational education students, environmental lobbyists and retired people from across the globe.
Education and Female Entrepreneurship in Asia
Public Policies and Private Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book examines policies and practices that relate to the education of female entrepreneurs in China, India, Singapore, Indonesia, and Japan. Through both textual and interview data, the book reveals the importance of initiatives that structure entrepreneurships for women, and informal learning...
A Girl's Education
Schooling and the Formation of Gender, Identities and Future Visions
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2016
This book argues that educators and the general public have become complacent about girls’ education as a consequence of the more recent fuss about problems for boys. After an analysis of persistent disquiet about girls’ lifestyles, it uses theories of gender and education to demonstrate that...