Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Documenting Aftermath
Information Infrastructures in the Wake of Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
An examination of how changing public information infrastructures shaped people's experience of earthquakes in Northern California in 1868, 1906, and 1989.
When an earthquake happens in California today, residents may look to the United States Geological Survey for online maps that show the...
Mixed Ability Grouping
A Philosophical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The book, first published in 1983, explores the argument that justifies mixed ability groupings in schools and the consequences of practicing the different justificatory arguments. The issues to be dealt with by staff making decisions about grouping arrangements in their schools are clearly worked...
Culture, Community, and Educational Success
Reimagining the Invisible Knapsack
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Many Black, Latinx, multiracial and ethnically diverse, first-generation college students turned PhDs—tie their academic success, achievements, and ability to navigate the difficult terrain of higher education back to the critical experiences and lessons learned in their home lives and through their...
International Students in China
Education, Student Life and Intercultural Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
As the number of international students in Chinese higher education increases steadily, this volume is one of the first to focus on their many and varied experiences. With contributions focusing on such topics as intercultural adaptation, soft power and interculturality, language learning strategies...
by Allen Brent
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
What models in the social sciences underlie existing or proposed patterns of educational practice? What theories of knowledge inform such models and thus arguably sanction such practice? In this book, first published in 1983, the author seeks some tentative answers.
Wittgenstein’s understanding...
Organisms and Personal Identity
Individuation and the Work of David Wiggins
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Over his philosophical career, David Wiggins has produced a body of work that, though varied and wide-ranging, stands as a coherent and carefully integrated whole. In this book Ferner examines Wiggins’ conceptualist-realism, his sortal theory ‘D’ and his human being theory in order to assess...
Teaching about Religions
A Democratic Approach for Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
"This provocative and timely book challenges Americans to rethink what it means to take democracy and religious freedom seriously in public education. Emile Lester takes the reader beyond culture war conflicts rooted in religious divisions and offers bold, new solutions for addressing our differences...
Understanding Campus-Community Partnerships in Conflict Zones
Engaging Students for Transformative Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
This book explores the opportunities and limitations of campus-community partnerships in Israel. In a conflict-ridden society with a struggling civic culture, the chapters examine partnerships at ten academic institutions, focusing on the micro-processes through which these partnerships work from...
Matter Transmission
Mediation in a Paleocyber Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Arguing for a paleocybernetic approach to current media studies debates, Nicolas Salazar Sutil develops an original framework for a new media ecology that embraces the primitive, the prehistoric, and the brute. Paying serious attention to materials used for cultural mediation that are unprocessed,...
by H. Forbes-Mewett, J. McCulloch, C. Nyland
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
International students and crime is an issue that impacts on lucrative international student markets, international relations, host countries' reputations, and the security of the broader population. This book presents vital new analyses on international students as victims and perpetrators of crime in Australia, the US and the UK.
Brewing Identities
Globalisation, Guinness and the Production of Irishness
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
While Guinness is a global product, it still contains references to Ireland and it occupies a particular place in imaginings of Irishness. Brewing Identities is unique in that, while it focuses on the (re)production of a specific kind of ethno-national identity– Irishness – it is simultaneously...
Living the Questions
Dispatches From a Life Already in Progress
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In Living the Questions: Dispatches From a Life Already in Progress, Wade Tillett takes up the question of how to live not in some abstract sense, but in the urgent present. Tillett realizes that how to live is a question that each of us is already asking and answering momentbymoment. These texts...
Growing up in the Playground
The Social Development of Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
First published in 1981, this work is based on the author’s research in the playgrounds of two Oxford schools. It describes the order amongst the apparent chaos by relating the playtime activities – the games, rhymes and taunts of five-to-ten-year-olds in first and middle schools – to children’s...
by Angelo J. Letizia
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This book presents educators with research-based strategies to promote civic education in their classrooms. Going beyond theory and measures of achievement, these methods focus on information location, evaluation and activation, dialogue in the classroom, understandings of discourse in popular culture...