Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
Education and Social Change
Contours in the History of American Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This brief, interpretive history of American schooling focuses on the evolving relationship between education and social change. Like its predecessors, this new edition adopts a thematic approach, investigating the impact of social forces such as industrialization, urbanization, immigration, globalization,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Morality, Ethics and Gifted Minds explores much of the current wisdom on ethics and morality while developing new perspectives on the ethical dimensions of high ability. Prominent authors from diverse disciplines are brought together, recognizing that no single discipline can capture the essence and...
by Jeffrey Swinkin
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
How can the studio teacher teach a lesson so as to instill refined artistic sensibilities, ones often thought to elude language? How can the applied lesson be a form of aesthetic education? How can teaching performance be an artistic endeavor in its own right? These are some of the questions Teaching...
Matters of Care
Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, María Puig de la Bellacasa presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of care, exploring its significance as an ethical...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
This book studies the major characteristics of the social pedagogical approach to early childhood education and care. It does so by investigating the distinctive elements of the Nordic approach and tradition. The cultural, educational, and ideological structures and values within the Nordic tradition...
Making Sense of Education
Fifteen Contemporary Educational Theorists in their own Words
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
This volume gives educational theorists the chance to let rip and say what they really want to say. In doing so it sends a blast of fresh air through the dusty halls of academe. The vast majority of the literature in education theory and philosophy follows the conventions of academic writing, and...
The Fractal Self
Science, Philosophy, and the Evolution of Human Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Our universe, science reveals, began in utter simplicity, then evolved into burgeoning complexity. Starting with subatomic particles, dissimilar entities formed associations—binding, bonding, growing, branching, catalyzing, cooperating—as “self” joined “other” following universal laws...
The Helmholtz Curves
Tracing Lost Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This book reconstructs the emergence of the phenomenon of “lost time” by engaging with two of the most significant time experts of the nineteenth century: the German physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz and the French writer Marcel Proust.
Its starting point is the archival discovery of curve...
The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge
Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
It was in 1660s England, according to the received view, in the Royal Society of London, that science acquired the form of empirical enquiry we recognize as our own: an open, collaborative experimental practice, mediated by specially-designed instruments, supported by civil discourse, stressing accuracy...
by Michael Bitbol
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is the final outcome of two projects. My first project was to publish a set of texts written by Schrodinger at the beginning of the 1950's for his seminars and lectures at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. These almost completely forgotten texts contained important insights into...
Homeschooling
The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
In Homeschooling: The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice, James G. Dwyer and Shawn F. Peters examine homeschooling’s history, its methods, and the fundamental questions at the root of the heated debate over whether and how the state should oversee and regulate it. The authors trace...
by John Dewey
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
One of America’s foremost philosophers, John Dewey (1859-1952) fought for civil and academic freedom, founded the Progressive School movement, and steadfastly promoted a scientific approach to intellectual development.
In In How We Think, Dewey shares his views on the educator’s role in training...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
A confluence of scholarly interest has resulted in a revival of Thomistic scholarship across the world. Several areas in the investigation of St. Thomas Aquinas, however, remain under-explored. This volume contributes to two of these neglected areas. First, the volume evaluates the contemporary relevance...
John Dewey, Liang Shuming, and China's Education Reform
Cultivating Individuality
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
This book explores the central question of how to cultivate a continued sense of self in the radically changing Chinese society, a question that is highly related to the current ongoing educational reform. If education cannot respond to the problem of students’ disconnection from the changing society,...