Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books

Drawing on the theories of author and conservationist Wendell Berry for the field of EcoJustice Education, this book articulates a pedagogy of responsibility as a three-pronged approach grounded in the recognition that our planet balances an essential and fragile interdependence between all living...

It is difficult to doubt that we suffer at present from the manifold aspects of an economic crisis which affects all walks of life. Well, men in almost every epoch in history have maintained that they were going through a crisis which was sup­ posed to be always more grave than any preceding critical...

The late Dr. Donald E. Carline taught at the University of ColoradoBoulder, where he imparted timeless wisdom unto his students focusing on K-12 education. He emphasized five types of learning: sensory experience learning, memory, motor learning, problem solving/critical thinking, and social-emotional...

Curriculum Studies Guidebooks treat the (Post)reconceptualization of curriculum studies. The huge corpus of literature reviewed in this volume reflect current issues and discussions dealing with education. This volume is about the intersections among curriculum studies, history, politics, multiculturalism,...

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...

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...

Professor Danilo Zolo has written an account of Otto Neurath's epistemology which deserves careful reading by all who have studied the development of 20th century philosophy of science. Here we see the philosophical Neurath in his mature states of mind, the vigorous critic, the scientific Utopian,...

Education, Religion and Society celebrates the career of Professor John Hull, a leading figure in the transformation of religious education in English and Welsh schools, and co-founder of the International Seminar on Religious Education and Values. He has also made major contributions to the theology...

Contemporary thinking on philosophy and the social sciences has primarily focused on the centrality of language in understanding societies and individuals; important developments which have been under-utilised by researchers in mathematics education. In this revised and extended edition this book...

This book is a philosophical introduction to the field of communication and media studies. In search of the philosophical backgrounds of that relatively young field, the book explores why this overwhelmingly popular discipline is in crisis. The book discusses classic introductions on communication,...

This book presents a philosophical interpretation to numerical cognition based on dual process theories and heuristics. It shows how investigations in cognitive science can shed light on issues traditionally raised by philosophers of mathematics. The analysis will also help readers to better understand...

This book is primarily about the methodological questions involved in attempts to understand two of the most peculiar phenomena in physics, both occurring at the lowest of temperatures. Superconductivity (the disappearance of electrical resistance) and superfluidity (the total absence of viscosity...

Neyrat argues against both a neoliberal technocracy (in which the earth is an object to be remade) and a new-agey organicism marked by unacknowledged racism and sexism.

The word education is used sometimes to signify the activity, process, or enterprise of educating or being educated and sometimes to signify the discipline or field of study taught in schools of education that concerns itself with this activity, process, or enterprise. As an activity or process, education...