Social Aspects category: 6049 books
The Theory and Practice of Development Education
A pedagogy for global social justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Development education is much more than learning about development; it is a pedagogy for the globalised societies of the twenty-first century that incorporates discourses from critical pedagogy and postcolonialism, and a mechanism for ensuring that differing perspectives are reflected within education,...
Diaspora Studies in Education
Toward a Framework for Understanding the Experiences of Transnational Communities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The Latino/a diaspora is undoubtedly transforming the demographics and cultural geographies of the United States. Diaspora Studies in Education advances an active use of the concept of «diaspora», focusing on processes that impact the diasporization of the Latino/a population, and more specifically,...
The Fabric of Interface
Mobile Media, Design, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Tracing the genealogy of our physical interaction with mobile devices back to textile and needlecraft culture.
For many of our interactions with digital media, we do not sit at a keyboard but hold a mobile device in our hands. We turn and tilt and stroke and tap, and through these physical...
Boys and Literacy
Exploring the Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
In recent years the issue of boys and literacy, namely that they are worse at it compared to girls, has become a key area of interest to all those concerned with the education of our children. This book highlights the key factors causing this divide and discusses the implementation of new strategies...
Men in Early Childhood Education and Care
Gender Balance and Flexibility
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
This book examines the current interest in recruiting and supporting more men in the early childhood education workforce. Drawing on extensive empirical data from case studies of an unusual English preschool setting and interviews with Swedish male preschool staff, the author explores the potential...
Artifictional Intelligence
Against Humanity's Surrender to Computers
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Recent startling successes in machine intelligence using a technique called ‘deep learning’ seem to blur the line between human and machine as never before. Are computers on the cusp of becoming so intelligent that they will render humans obsolete? Harry Collins argues we are getting ahead of...
Molecular Feminisms
Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2018
�Should feminists clone?� �What do neurons think about?� �How can we learn from bacterial writing?� These provocative questions have haunted neuroscientist and molecular biologist Deboleena Roy since her early days of research when she was conducting experiments on an in vitro cell line...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Children spend more time in school than in any social institution outside the home. And schools probably exert more influence on children’s development and life chances than any environment beyond the home and neighbourhood. The purpose of this book is to document some important ways schools influence...
by G.G. Granger
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
system reflected in Saussure's linguistic theory, and so influential in the great progress linguistic theory has made in this century. Indeed, Granger sees linguistic theory as expressing a paradigm for scientific theorizing, which research in other social sciences should adopt. But 'structuralism'...
Education and Working-Class Youth
Reshaping the Politics of Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
This book provides an inclusive and incisive analysis of the experiences of working-class young people in education. While there is an established literature on education and the working class stretching back decades, comparatively there has been something of a neglect of class-based inequality –...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Originally written at a time of crisis in the education system of Britain – occasioned by cuts, contradictions and change - many of the issues discussed in this book are still relevant today. Debate in the book focuses upon an examination of the nature of the crisis, an exploration of the impact...
From Socrates to Summerhill and Beyond
Towards a Philosophy of Education for Personal Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In From Socrates to Summerhill and Beyond: Towards a Philosophy of Education for Personal Responsibility, Ronald Swartz offers an evolving development of fallible, liberal democratic, self?governing educational philosophies. He suggests that educators can benefit from having dialogues about questions...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
This collection discusses and illustrates how educational research is affected by the economic, institutional and physical contingencies of its time, and in our time even increasingly is driven by them. It is argued that the antidote to this is, however, not to aspire to ‘thought itself’, but...
Scientifical Americans
The Culture of Amateur Paranormal Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
In the 21st century, reality television and the Internet have fed public interest in ghosts, UFOs, cryptozoology and other unusual phenomena. By 2010, roughly 2000 amateur research and investigation groups formed in the U.S.—ghost hunters, Bigfoot chasers and UFO researchers, using an array of (supposedly)...