Social Aspects category: 6049 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The last decades have seen major reformations in the philosophy and history of science. What has been called 'post-positivist' philosophy of science has introduced radically new concerns with historical, social, and valuative components of scientific thought in the natural sciences, and has raised...
Friendship and Diversity
Class, Ethnicity and Social Relationships in the City
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Do people make friends with those who are culturally and socially different to themselves? Friendship and Diversity explores the social relationships of adults and children living in highly diverse localities in London. The authors examine how social class and ethnic difference affects the friendships...
Education, Professionalization and Social Representations
On the Transformation of Social Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
This book presents a broad range of research related to how social knowledge is shared, transmitted and transformed in the context of education and professional formation. The chapters of this edited collection reflect different theoretical and empirical approaches to that form of common-sense knowledge...
Mentorship, Leadership, and Research
Their Place within the Social Science Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
This insightful volume details the implementation and challenges of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), developed in the UK to ensure equal access to higher education for all social classes. It posits that a modern higher education institution requires a robust set of mechanisms - specifically...
Modelo de gestión social para proyectos extractivos
La inclusión del Otro como estrategia de sostenibilidad
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Esta obra, ' Modelo de Gestión Social para Proyectos Extractivos, La inclusión del Otro como estrategia de sostenibilidad', de Miguel Castañeda Loayza, es un aporte para reducir la brecha que existe entre el conocimiento necesario para desarrollar la gestión social en las empresas extractivas...
Liberalism, Neoliberalism, Social Democracy
Thin Communitarian Perspectives on Political Philosophy and Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
The Credit Crunch of 2008 has exposed the fallacies of neoliberalism and its thesis of the self-regulating market, which has been ascendant in both economic theory and policy over the last 30 years. In moving beyond neoliberalism, social democratic arguments are once again coming to the fore; however,...
by Sven Günther
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Master's Thesis from the year 2000 in the subject Social Pedagogy / Social Work, Glasgow Caledonian University, language: English, abstract: In November 1999 the Sunday Mail ran a story Orkney in new kid-sex scandal. Within the article, the social workers at Orkney were accused of doing nothing because...
by Rudolf Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1984
The six lectures in this volume were given one month before the opening of the first Waldorf School in Stuttgart in September 1919, in the context of Germany's post-war social ferment. Steiner points to negative tendencies present in modern social life as inner drowsiness, mechanization, and animalization....
by Rudolf Steiner, Gary Lamb
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
In these exciting lectures, Rudolf Steiner shows that today's political, economic, and social problems are symptoms of our faulty thinking. His convincing analysis of economic crises, unemployment, and political uprisings unmasks such problems as signs of our desperate need for new thinking. In a very...
Wiki at War
Conflict in a Socially Networked World
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
In 2011, amid the popular uprising against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the government sought in vain to shut down the Internet-based social networks of its people.
WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange has been branded “public enemy number one” by some in the United States for posting...
Social Networking and Education
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
The present work is intended to assist academics, researchers and proponents of online learning and teaching. Academics will be able to share the findings presented in this book, and the Social Networking and Education Model (SNEM), with their students (i.e. Masters and PhD). It is envisaged that...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
This volume addresses questions that lie at the core of research into education. It examines the way in which the institutional embeddedness and the social and ethnic composition of students affect educational performance, skill formation, and behavioral outcomes. It discusses the manner in which...
Teaching Justice
Solving Social Justice Problems through University Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Teaching Justice explores the role that teaching and learning in higher education can play in solving problems of social injustice. Examining a range of approaches to education, it considers the challenges that exist in teaching about justice, drawing on extensive empirical data gathered amongst college...
Networked: The New Social Operating System
The New Social Operating System
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
How social networks, the personalized Internet, and always-on mobile connectivity are transforming--and expanding--social life.