Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Why Knowledge Matters
Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
In Why Knowledge Matters, influential scholar E. D. Hirsch, Jr., addresses critical issues in contemporary education reform and shows how cherished truisms about education and child development have led to unintended and negative consequences.
Hirsch, author of The Knowledge Deficit, draws on recent...
Mentoring Away the Glass Ceiling in Academia
A Cultured Critique
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Mentoring Away the Glass Ceiling in Academia: A Cultured Critique is different in that it calls attention to the role mentoring has played on the “glass ceiling” phenomenon in higher education. Narratives by and about the experiences of women of diverse backgrounds in the United States and beyond...
Introduction to Early Childhood Education
Social, Cultural and Epistemological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
The volume covers the principles and theoretic cores concerning the childhood pedagogy, widening the perspective from the cross-disciplinary side – the connection between the other sciences and the sciences of the education – to the ethical and deontological side – the educative function. On an...
Network Governance of Global Religions
Jerusalem, Rome, and Mecca
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
This study seeks to explain three models of network governance embedded in digital practices that the mainstream monotheistic religions—Judaism, Catholic Christianity, and Islam—have used to lead and manage the worldwide distribution of their local nodes, exploring the connection between network...
Critical Literacy and Urban Youth
Pedagogies of Access, Dissent, and Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Critical Literacy and Urban Youth offers an interrogation of critical theory developed from the author’s work with young people in classrooms, neighborhoods, and institutions of power. Through cases, an articulated process, and a theory of literacy education and social change, Morrell extends the...
Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction
A Cognitive Reading
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
This book is the first to offer a justice-focused cognitive reading of modern YA speculative fiction in its narrative and filmic forms. It links the expansion of YA speculative fiction in the 20th century with the emergence of human and civil rights movements, with the communitarian revolution in...
Forgotten Connections
On culture and upbringing
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Klaus Mollenhauer’s Forgotten Connections: On Culture and Upbringing is internationally regarded as one of the most important German contributions to educational and curriculum theory in the 20th century. Appearing here in English for the first time, the book draws on Mollenhauer’s concern for...
All the Ghosts in the Machine
Illusions of Immortality in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
'As charming and touching as it is astute and insightful'
Adam Alter, New York Times bestselling author of Irresistible and Drunk Tank Pink
'This a very useful book, even perhaps for people who have never been near a computer in their lives'
Jake Kerridge, Sunday Telegraph
Seen any ghosts...
THE ANT, THE GRASSHOPPER, THE PHILOSOPHER & THE SLAVE
A novel about the meaning of work & on the direction of the achievement of freedom
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
The man is the only creature who, being of the species "homo sapiens", not also brings a pre-determination and/or a complete nature and finished in itself and, therefore, not to be carried out, due to a lack of a quality education, he can also throw-if it is not able to "be...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
This volume looks at the social and intellectual forces which the child encounters in class-room and playground from the parent’s point of view. School and home are seen as the separate yet overlapping worlds of childhood – for some children more uncompromisingly separated than for others. In...
by Lihong Wang
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book focuses on the phenomenon of Chinese postgraduate students studying abroad and depicts their learning trajectory as they adjust to a new culture of teaching and learning in a new environment. It uses an example from a British university to draw together intercultural learning theories to explore the impact that studying abroad has.
Recent Themes in the Philosophy of Science
Scientific Realism and Commonsense
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and social studies of science. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science aims to provide a distinctive publication outlet for their work. Each volume comprises a group of thematically-connected...
by Dirk K. Zimmermann
Language: German
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Psychologe Albert Wallmann therapiert einen Paparazzo. Der Promi-Knipser glaubt durch Fotoaufnahmen eine vor dem Comeback stehende Ex-Popsängerin in Lebensgefahr gebracht zu haben und leidet unter Schuldgefühlen. Als der Paparazzo auf mysteriöse Weise verschwindet, ermittelt Wallmann auf eigene...
Kursbuch 170
Krisen lieben
Language: German
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Parteien-, Finanz-, Flüchtlings- oder Lebenskrise – Krisen scheinen zum Normalzustand geworden zu sein. Neben einem Moment der gesellschaftlichen Verwerfung sind Krisen aber auch gleichzeitig Induktionsmoment von Lern- und Veränderungsprozessen. Auch das Kursbuch war nicht vor der Krise gefeit....