Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
Higher Education and Social Justice
The Transformative Potential of University Teaching and the Power of Educational Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2018
This book demonstrates how the pedagogical decision making of university academics can be shaped by engagement with an educational philosophy known as “relationship-centred education”. Beginning with critical analysis of concepts such as student engagement, student satisfaction, and student-centred...
Mobility, Education and Employability in the European Union
Inside Erasmus
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
This book takes an in-depth look at the European Commission’s Erasmus programme. In its current Erasmus+ format, the programme supports international exchange visits among students, trainees, volunteers and academic members of staff with a view to enhancing employability and encouraging intercultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
This inaugural handbook documents the distinctive research field that utilizes history and philosophy in investigation of theoretical, curricular and pedagogical issues in the teaching of science and mathematics. It is contributed to by 130 researchers from 30 countries; it provides a logically structured,...
by D. J. O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Education, like every other important branch of knowledge, has its underlying philosophical problems. It is these problems and the attempts to solve them which together make up the philosophy of education. This book, first published in 1957, provides a simple explanation and illustration of what philosophy...
The Impact of Critical Rationalism
Expanding the Popperian Legacy through the Works of Ian C. Jarvie
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
As a student and disciple of Karl Popper and longtime managing editor of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ian C. Jarvie extended the notion of Critical Rationalism to be useful in anthropology, aesthetics, film studies, and various social sciences. In this Festschrift, contributors from a range...
Risk Analysis and Scientific Method
Methodological and Ethical Problems with Evaluating Societal Hazards
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Much of the work in this volume was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant SES82-05112 from the Program in History and Philosophy of Science and the Division of Policy Research and Analysis. (Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
'Open', 'informal', and 'humanistic' are words used to describe new styles of education which depart from ordinary or traditional education. Too often, however, these adjectives are used in a strongly polemical or self-justifying rather than analytical way. Often too, the grounds for accepting or...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The more traditional approaches to the history and philosophy of science and technology continue as well, and probably will continue as long as there are skillful practitioners such as Carl Hempel, Ernest Nagel, and th~ir students. Finally, there are still other approaches that address some of the...
Nuclear Power and Public Policy
The Social and Ethical Problems of Fission Technology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book grew out of projects funded by the Kentucky Human ities Council in 1974 and. 1975 and by the Environmental Protec tion Agency in 1976 and 1977. As a result of the generosity of these two agencies, I was able to study the logical, methodological, and ethical assumptions inherent in the...
Imperfect Oracle
The Epistemic and Moral Authority of Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Science and its offshoot, technology, enter into the very fabric of our society in so many ways that we cannot imagine life without them. We are surrounded by crises and debates over climate change, stem-cell research, AIDS, evolutionary theory and “intelligent design,” the use of DNA in solving...
Philosophy and Critical Pedagogy
Insurrection and Commonwealth
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Critical pedagogy, political economics, and aesthetic theory combine with dialectical and materialist understandings of science, society, and revolutionary politics to develop the most radical goals of society and education. In Philosophy and Critical Pedagogy: Insurrection and Commonwealth, Marcuse’s...
Health
A History
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
From antiquity to the early modern period, many philosophers also studied anatomy and medicine, or were medical doctors themselves -- yet the history of philosophy and of medicine are pursued as separate disciplines. This book departs from that practice, gathering contributions by both historians...
Childhood, Education and Philosophy
New ideas for an old relationship
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
This book explores the idea of a childlike education and offers critical tools to question traditional forms of education, and alternative ways to understand and practice the relationship between education and childhood. Engaging with the work of Michel Foucault, Jacques Rancière, Giorgio Agamben...
Education, Self-consciousness and Social Action
Bildung as a Neo-Hegelian Concept
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Education, Self-consciousness and Social Action reconstructs the Hegelian concept of education, Bildung, and shows that this concept could serve as a powerful alternative to current psychologist notions of learning. Taking a Hegelian perspective, Stojanov claims that Bildung should be interpreted...