Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Pedagogies of Difference
Rethinking Education for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Peter Pericles Trifonas has assembled internationally acclaimed theorists and educational practitioners whose essays explore various constructions, representations, and uses of difference in educational contexts. These essays strive to bridge competing discourses of difference--for instance, feminist...
Schooling Sexual Cultures
Visual Research in Sexuality Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Moving beyond the traditional focus on curriculum and pedagogy, this volume explores hidden dimensions of sexuality education in schools and how sexual meanings are produced. Challenging the standard understandings of sexuality education, Allen discusses how students’ knowledge of sexualities is...
Art Education Beyond the Classroom
Pondering the Outsider and Other Sites of Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
By focusing on children and adults with disabilities, each contributor offers critical research which challenges the non-transferable divide between us and them , encouraging art teachers, therapists, critics, and general readers alike to uncover their biases regarding the nature of art and education.
by Roberta Espinoza
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
While stories of working-class and minority students overcoming obstacles to attend and graduate from college tend to emphasize the individualistic and meritocratic aspect, this book - based in extensive empirical study of American high school classrooms, and in theories of social and cultural capital...
The Factors Effecting Student Achievement
Meta-Analysis of Empirical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2017
This book focuses on the effect of psychological, social and demographic variables on student achievement and summarizes the current research findings in the field. It addresses the need for inclusive and interpretive studies in the field in order to interpret student achievement literature and suggests...
Reflections on Human Inquiry
Science, Philosophy, and Common Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This original volume examines forms and limits of human inquiry from a largely sceptical point of view. Human beings are endowed with cognitive agency. Our grasp of the world, and of ourselves, are not merely responses to external stimuli; they are reflective products of human inquiry. At one point...
Learning to Belong in the World
An Ethnography of Asian American Girls
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
This book provides a complex and intricate portrayal of Asian American high school girls – which has been an under-researched population – as cultural meditators, diasporic agents, and community builders who negotiate displacement and attachment in challenging worlds of the in-between. Based on...
Sociocultural Issues in Physical Education
Case Studies for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Sociocultural Issues in Physical Education: Case Studies for Teachers is useful to a wide range of individuals interested in increasing their sociocultural awareness and knowledge in order to consider how students’ experiences are shaped in and through physical education classes. This book may be...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Edited by Kris Rutten, Stefaan Blancke, and Ronald Soetaert, Perspectives on Science and Culture explores the intersection between scientific understanding and cultural representation from an interdisciplinary perspective. Contributors to the volume analyze representations of science and scientific...
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Language: German
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Language: German
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Nicht weniger als von einer Revolution ist gegenwärtig die Rede. Neuere Verfahren der Künstlichen Intelligenz greifen in sämtliche Bereiche des sozialen und kulturellen Lebens ein: Maschinen lernen Bilder und Sprache zu erkennen, beherrschen die autonome Steuerung von Fahrzeugen ebenso wie Finanzinvestments...
by CLEBERSON EDUARDO DA COSTA
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: September 26, 2015
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: September 26, 2015
(a5, 134 páginas) - Nietzsche (1844-1900), o grande filósofo alemão, um dia escreveu-nos: “A arte sem amor não é nada.”
No amor à arte está esse princípio de transformação das coisas; essa ideia de não aceitar a realidade como ela é e/ou de não aceitar consumi-la e/ou...
MISÉRIA DA PEDAGOGIA
PARA ALÉM DAS PEDAGOGIAS LIBERAIS E PROGRESSISTAS
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 27, 2015
(A5, 155 PÁGINAS) - A pedagogia, embora não saibam e/ou finjam não quererem saber muitos, historicamente e ainda hoje, tragicamente, tem sido:
1- Pragmaticamente concebida por muitos pseudo intelectuais como uma espécie dogmática e cientificista de “ciência da educação”;
2...
Capitalismo, o Homem Totalitário & a Banalidade do Mal
Dialogando com Hannah Arendt
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 28, 2018
(A5, 153 P.)
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Os homens de espírito totalitário (totalitário-econômico), ainda que diretamente sem governos com esse nome, muito antes dos ditos totalitarismos do século XX (nazismo, fascismo, etc.), na condição de liberais ou capitalistas selvagens:
Já tinham colonizado,...
by CLEBERSON EDUARDO DA COSTA
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: September 28, 2014
(a5, 139 p.) - As sociedades do capital, a partir do desenvolvimento da Indústria Cultural, criaram dois tipos padronizados e ideais de homens e mulheres, na maioria das vezes paradoxais em si mesmos como, por exemplo:
Homens que, ao mesmo tempo, são ricos, inteligentes, musculosos, elegantes,...