Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Differences and similarities - Social work in chosen european countries
Social work in chosen european countries
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Social Pedagogy / Social Work, grade: 1,3, University of Lüneburg (Fakultät I: Bildungs-, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften), course: Internationale Arbeitsfelder für Pädagogen, 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The majority...
Academic Culture: An Analytical Framework for Understanding Academic Work
A Case Study about the Social Science Academe in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
That we live in a world ruled and confused by cultural diversity has become common sense. The social sciences gave birth to a new theoretical paradigm, the creation of cultural theories. Since then, social science theorizing applies to any social phenomenon across the world exploring cultural diversities...
by P. Madhu
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2005 in the subject Social Pedagogy / Social Work, grade: A, , course: Inter-deciplinary Social Science, language: English, abstract: This thesis introduces and theoretically explores the idea of 'praxis intervention' and tries to support it with the help...
by Tran Van Kham, Heung Seek Cho
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2016 in the subject Social Pedagogy / Social Work, Vietnam National University Hanoi, course: Social Work, language: English, abstract: Since the United Nations' Convention on the rights for disabled people approved in 2006, the understanding of disability...
Technology and Social Inclusion
Rethinking the Digital Divide
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2004
Much of the discussion about new technologies and social equality has focused on the oversimplified notion of a "digital divide." Technology and Social Inclusion moves beyond the limited view of haves and have-nots to analyze the different forms of access to information and communication technologies....
Social Computing Theory and Practice
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Social computing has seen exponential growth in various application areas, enabling new digital contexts for almost any type of interaction. This growth is expected to continue in various domains as social computing becomes a new paradigm for the next generation applications. Social Computing Theory...
Social Network Mining, Analysis, and Research Trends
Techniques and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
Social network analysis dates back to the early 20th century, with initial studies focusing on small group behavior from a sociological perspective. The emergence of the Internet and subsequent increase in the use of online social networking applications has caused a shift in the approach to this field....
Critical Service Learning Toolkit
Social Work Strategies for Promoting Healthy Youth Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
Critical Service Learning Toolkit offers a strengths-based, interdisciplinary approach to promoting social competence while enhancing emotional and academic skill development. Designed as a user-friendly guide to carrying out successful CSL projects, this Toolkit provides practitioners with step-by-step...
Teaching Social Foundations of Education
Contexts, Theories, and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This book, the first comprehensive, critical examination of the theory and pedagogy of the field of social foundations of education and its relevance and role within teacher education:
*Articulates central questions in the field--such as "What is social foundations?"; "Is there a social foundations...
Science and Social Work
A Critical Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2002
Science and Social Work is a critical appraisal of the strategies and methods that have been used to develop knowledge for social work practice. It identifies the major ways in which social workers have drawn upon scientific knowledge and techniques, placing each one in historical perspective by explaining...
Student Development and Social Justice
Critical Learning, Radical Healing, and Community Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
This book weaves together critical components of student development and community building for social justice to prepare students to engage effectively in community-campus partnerships for social change. The author combines diverse theoretical models such as critical pedagogy, asset-based community...
Muslim Uyghur Students in a Chinese Boarding School
Social Recapitalization as a Response to Ethnic Integration
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2008
One of the most controversial policies in Chinese minority education concerns the so-called inland ethnic minority schools or classes in Han inhabited areas in China. Since 2000, boarding Xinjiang Classes have been established in the eastern cities of China for high school students from the Xinjiang...
Critical Social Issues in American Education
Democracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
This text-reader brings together powerful readings that critically situate issues of education in the context of the major cultural, moral, political, economic, ecological, and spiritual crises that confront us as a nation and a global community. It provides a focus and a conceptual framework for...
Quantum Mind and Social Science
Unifying Physical and Social Ontology
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
There is an underlying assumption in the social sciences that consciousness and social life are ultimately classical physical/material phenomena. In this ground-breaking book, Alexander Wendt challenges this assumption by proposing that consciousness is, in fact, a macroscopic quantum mechanical phenomenon....