Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Surrender and Catch
Experience and Inquiry Today
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Su"ender and catch: give so you can receive, where the giving is your whole self, in a total experience. This is scarcely new on the American scene, and it is ancient knowledge, East and West. The fears of total surrender, the fears of self-revelation and of total abandon, although genuine, are...
Forging Trust Communities
How Technology Changes Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Bloggers in India used social media and wikis to broadcast news and bring humanitarian aid to tsunami victims in South Asia. Terrorist groups like ISIS pour out messages and recruit new members on websites. The Internet is the new public square, bringing to politics a platform on which to create community...
by R.W.K. Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
In this study of the main conceptual and normative issues to which the education of the adult gives rise, the author demonstrates that these issues can be understood and resolved only by coming to grips with some of the central and most contentious questions in epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics,...
Science Between Truth and Ethical Responsibility
Evandro Agazzi in the Contemporary Scientific and Philosophical Debate
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This book offers the most complete and up-to-date overview of the philosophical work of Evandro Agazzi, presently the most important Italian philosopher of science and one of the most influential in the world. Scholars from seven countries explore his contributions in areas ranging from philosophy...
by Keith Mansfield
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?
200 FUTURISTIC CONCEPTS, TECHNOLOGIES, AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES, EXPLAINED IN AN INSTANT
How will we live, work, and entertain ourselves? What new technologies will emerge? Will humanity evolve--and perhaps live forever? Or are we facing threats that could end...
Before it’s Too Late
A Scientist’s Case for Nuclear Energy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
I was not invited to write a foreword for this book. Dr. Cohen, knowing my busy schedule, would have considered such a request to be an imposition. I volunteered to do so in part to acknowledge my gratitude to him for having been a constant source of reference materials as I have turned my attention...
Eretici e respinti. Classi sociali e istruzione superiore in Italia
Classi sociali e istruzione superiore in Italia
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Il volume evidenzia come il rapporto di studenti e famiglie con la scuola cambi a seconda della classe sociale di appartenenza. Il rapporto dialettico tra dispositivi scolastici e disposizioni sociali, tra ideologia e struttura sociale, spinge il lettore a riflettere sulle ragioni della “continua...
by Ivan Illich
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Ivan Illich è stato un profeta? Descolarizzare la società è stato solo uno slogan o un’anticipazione del futuro? La scuola, così come la conosciamo finora, ha raggiunto o fallito il suo scopo? I curricula scolastici sono costruiti attorno alla “vita reale” o sono espressione di un sapere...
Edges of Exposure
Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity in Postcolonial Senegal
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
In the industrialized nations of the global North, well-funded agencies like the CDC attend to citizens' health, monitoring and treating for toxic poisons like lead. How do the under-resourced nations of the global South meet such challenges? In Edges of Exposure, Noémi Tousignant traces the work...
Deep Knowledge
Learning to Teach Science for Understanding and Equity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Deep Knowledge is a book about how people’s ideas change as they learn to teach. Using the experiences of six middle and high school student teachers as they learn to teach science in diverse classrooms, Larkin explores how their work changes the way they think about students, society, schools,...
Re-Engaging Young People with Education
The Steps after Disengagement and Exclusion
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
This book examines how young people can be re-engaged with schooling and their own learning beyond the school gates. Despite attempts by successive UK governments to promote engagement with education, there has been a substantial increase in formal and informal exclusions from secondary schools, particularly...
Creating Balance in Children: Activities to Optimize Learning and Behavior
A Guide for Teachers and Parents of Children Ages 5 to 14
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Educate the whole child with over one hundred activities that promote physical, cognitive, and emotional/social balance in children!
This insightful resource helps educators, parents, and childcare providers discover how emotions affect learning and behavior, recognize the symptoms and sources...
Numbered Lives
Life and Death in Quantum Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
A feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities.
Anglo-American culture has used media to measure and quantify lives for centuries. Historical journal entries map the details of...
The Structure of Idealization
Towards a Systematic Interpretation of the Marxian Idea of Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Much is said in Marxist literature about Marxist methodology which is supposed to be entirely original - differing a great deal from all other trends in the modern philosophy of science. On the other hand, however, it is unfallacious to state that there are no people outside Marxism who would like...