Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
More Like Life Itself
Simulations as Powerful and Purposeful Social Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
John Dewey wrote in multiple places that education should be an experience of the content and processes of life itself. Too often, social studies is taught in a way that tells students about real-life, but fails to engage them in the process of life for which Dewey advocated. The core purpose of simulations...
Constructivism and the New Social Studies
A Collection of Classic Inquiry Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
The New Social Studies refers to a flurry of academic and commercial activity during the 1960s and 1970s that resulted in the mass development and dissemination of revolutionary classroom materials and teacher resources. In science as well as social studies, a spirit of “inquiry-based teaching”...
Cognition and the Brain
The Philosophy and Neuroscience Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This volume provides an up to date and comprehensive overview of the philosophy and neuroscience movement, which applies the methods of neuroscience to traditional philosophical problems and uses philosophical methods to illuminate issues in neuroscience. At the heart of the movement is the conviction...
On Freedom
Technology, Capital, Medium
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
How do we challenge the structures of late capitalism if all possible media through which to do do is inescapably capitalist? This urgent political question is at the heart of Peter Trawny's major new work.
With searing precision Trawny demonstrates how our world has become wholly determined...
by Hernán Cuervo
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
This book explores what social justice looks like for rural schools in Australia. The author challenges the consensus that sees the distribution of resources as the panacea for the myriad challenges faced by rural schools and argues that the solution to inequality and injustice in rural settings has...
The Theoretical Practices of Physics
Philosophical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
R.I.G. Hughes presents a series of eight philosophical essays on the theoretical practices of physics. The first two essays examine these practices as they appear in physicists' treatises (e.g. Newton's Principia and Opticks) and journal articles (by Einstein, Bohm and Pines, Aharonov and Bohm). By...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Although computation and the science of physical systems would appear to be unrelated, there are a number of ways in which computational and physical concepts can be brought together in ways that illuminate both. This volume examines fundamental questions which connect scholars from both disciplines:...
Democratic Education and the Public Sphere
Towards John Dewey’s theory of aesthetic experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This book considers John Dewey’s philosophy of democratic education and his theory of public sphere from the perspective of the reconstruction and redefinition of the dominant liberalist movement. By bridging art education and public sphere, and drawing upon contemporary mainstream philosophies,...
Closure
A Story of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
For over 2000 years our culture has believed in the possibility of a single true account of the world. Now this age is coming to a close. As a result there is a deep unease. We are lost both as individuals, and as a culture. In the new relativistic, post-modern era, we have no history, no right or...
Humor, Laughter and Human Flourishing
A Philosophical Exploration of the Laughing Animal
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
This book is a philosophical investigation of the significance of humor and laughter, examining its relation to other human phenomena including truth, nihilism, dreams, friendship, intimacy, aesthetic experience, self-transcendence and education. The author addresses the relative neglect of humor...
by A. Lack
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Lack begins with a discussion of Max Weber's analysis of the disenchantment of the world and proceeds to develop Heidegger's philosophy in a way that suggests a "re-enchantment" of the world that faces the modern condition squarely, without nostalgia.
by Alex Anatole
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Taoism is codified in the Tao Te Ching, which was written in the sixth century B.C. by the ancient sage Lao Tzu. Despite being historys second-most translated book after the Bible, its eighty-one poems have often been interpreted with confusing, contradictory, and sometimes blatantly incorrect explanations....
Rethinking Education for Social Cohesion
International Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
This book addresses current debates in the field of social cohesion. It examines the ethics and policy making of social cohesion and explores various means for promoting social cohesion including history education, citizenship education, language, human rights based teacher training and school partnerships.
Seducing Souls
Education and the Experience of Human Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
The simple premise of this book is that the purpose of education is to serve the well-being of students. Well-being might seem to be an obvious aim for education, but it has been given insufficient attention and often is poorly understood. Karl D. Hostetler asks: What does it mean for a human being...