Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
Foucault's Challenge
Discourse, Knowledge, and Power in Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The intellectual work of Michel Foucault has been an increasingly central component of social science in recent years. This is the first book to directly address the implication of Foucault's work for the field of education. This text, originally published in 1997, not only provides a critical examination...
The Impact of the First World War on British Universities
Emerging from the Shadows
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
The First World War had innumerable consequences for all aspects of society; universities and education being no exception. This book details the myriad impacts of the war on British universities: telling how universities survived the war, their contribution to the war effort and the changes that...
Curriculum Studies Guidebooks
Volume 2- Concepts and Theoretical Frameworks
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Curriculum Studies Guidebooks treat the (Post)reconceptualization of curriculum studies. The literature reviewed in this volume reflects current issues and discussions taking place in education. This volume is about the intersections among curriculum studies and aesthetics; spirituality; cosmopolitanism;...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The importance of social studies assessment is beyond question. The National Council of the Social Studies’ C3 Framework recognizes the importance of high?quality assessments—its major objective, a “deep understanding of the sociocultural world,” has as its underpinning the idea that students...
by Winston Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
The book is about recognition, and about saying 'Thanks' for an educational and life experience at the Grenada Boys Secondary School Hostel in which I, the author and others were grounded during our adolescent years. The book is also about sharing a piece of Grenada's educational history with current...
by Rudolf Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
This lecture is part of the collection "The Foundations of Human Experience" by Rudolf Steiner. Steiner (1861-1925) was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist. He gained initial recognition as a literary critic and cultural philosopher. At the beginning of the 20th century,...
Science Policy, Ethics, and Economic Methodology
Some Problems of Technology Assessment and Environmental-Impact Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
If indeed scientists and technologists, especially economists, set much of the agenda by which the future is played out, and I think they do, then the student of scientific methodology and public ethics has at least three options. He can embrace certain scientific methods and the value they hold for...
Program Earth
Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Sensors are everywhere. Small, flexible, economical, and computationally powerful, they operate ubiquitously in environments. They compile massive amounts of data, including information about air, water, and climate. Never before has such a volume of environmental data been so broadly collected or...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
William James and Education is a dynamic collection of original essays spotlighting William James as a role model for bringing philosophy to bear on the persistent issues of life and education. Using James’s philosophical ideas, the contributors evade the polarization and superficiality that permeate...
Global Health and International Community
Ethical, Political and Regulatory Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Global health arguably represents the most pressing issues facing humanity. Trends in international migration and transnational commerce render state boundaries increasingly porous. Human activity in one part of the world can lead to health impacts elsewhere. Animals, viruses and bacteria as well...
Neoliberalism, Pedagogy and Human Development
Exploring Time, Mediation and Collectivity in Contemporary Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In most Western developed countries, adult life is increasingly organized on the basis of short-term work contracts and reduced social security funds. In this context it seems that producing efficient job-seekers and employees becomes the main aim of educational programs for the next generation. Through...
The Why of Things
Causality in Science, Medicine, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Why was there a meltdown at the Fukushima power plant? Why do some people get cancer and not others? Why is global warming happening? Why does one person get depressed in the face of life's vicissitudes while another finds resilience?
Questions like these—questions of causality—form the...
by Allen Brent
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
In this book, first published in 1978, Allen Brent sets out to explore some of the questions raised by theorists and philosophers regarding curriculum. He starts by investigating whether all knowledge is the product of social conditions of particular times or places, or whether there is some kind...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Initially prepared as part of the Foundations of the Unity of Science volumes under the auspices of the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, Science and the Structure of Ethics soon took on a life of its own. Well positioned in the naturalistic tradition of ethical theory extending from...