Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
Jesus and the Streets
The Loci of Causality for the Intra-Racial Gender Academic Achievement Gap in Black Urban America and the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Against John Ogbu’s oppositional culture theory and Claude Steele’s disidentification hypothesis, Jesus and the Streets offers a more appropriate structural Marxian hermeneutical framework for contextualizing, conceptualizing, and evaluating the locus of causality for the black male/female intra-racial...
by Rudolf Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1966
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1966
(From the forward) We are confronted by demands for social reconstruction. These pose grave problems with far-reaching implications. This books is written with the conviction that their solution must be looked for along lines not yet considered. Its aim is to show what has to be done in order that social...
Personhood and Social Robotics
A psychological consideration
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
An exponentially growing industry, human robot interaction (HRI) research has drawn predominantly upon psychologists’ descriptions of mechanisms of face-to-face dyadic interactions. This book considers how social robotics is beginning unwittingly to confront an impasse that has been a perennial...
Seven Steps for Building Social Skills in Your Child
A Family Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Teaching children how to navigate the complex social universe, this everyday strategy guide helps them to develop healthy social skills. Informed by current research on character development, this handbook helps parents, educators, and health-care workers understand which critical social skills determine...
Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?
Thinking from Women's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Sandra Harding here develops further the themes first addressed in her widely influential book, The Science Question in Feminism, and conducts a compelling analysis of feminist theories on the philosophical problem of how we know what we know.
Following a strong narrative line, Harding sets...
Youth Media Matters
Participatory Cultures and Literacies in Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In an information age of youth social movements, Youth Media Matters examines how young people are using new media technologies to tell stories about themselves and their social worlds. They do so through joint efforts in a range of educational settings and media environments, including high school...
by V. Carrington
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
There can be little doubt that ours is a society riding the crest of vast and profound social and economic change. The material conditions and social landscapes through which we experience our lives are increasingly an unchartered sea of unanticipated shift and hidden consequence and many of us have...
Children and the Changing Family
Between Transformation and Negotiation
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
This timely and thought-provoking book explores how social and family change are colouring the experience of childhood. The book is centred around three major changes: parental employment, family composition and ideology. The authors demonstrate how children's families are transformed in accordance...
by Carrie Birch
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
This is a book about connections between social and educational inequalities in the UK. It draws on empirical research into how these inequalities impact on lives, particularly those of adults who, having left school with few or no qualifications, are likely to suffer social exclusion. Through life...
by S. Henry
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Bringing together sociology of the body with powerful examinations of educational theory and social class, Henry examines how children's experiences of school and pedagogy are shaped by their bodies and the ideas of social class and class identity that their bodies carry.
by Hugo Munsterberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
As one of the most significant figures in the development of the field of applied psychology, German-born Hugo Munsterberg emphasized the importance of bringing psychology out of the laboratory and into the real world. In Psychology and Social Sanity, he addresses a number of pressing social problems...
Race, Gender and Educational Desire
Why black women succeed and fail
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
'This book is a great genealogy of black women's unrecognised contributions within both education and the wide social context. I think it constitutes an important piece of work that is totally missing from the existing literature'
- Diane Reay, Professor of Education, Cambridge University
Race,...
Social Analysis of Education
After the new sociology
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
First published in 1987, this book offers an ideological critique of the new sociology of education, with the aim to redeem understanding of the social and historical character of knowledge. It argues that with an historical and social grasp, university knowledge can be understood as a collective...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
This book examines the multiple relationships between education, pedagogy, and social change in Latin America and beyond through a discussion of critical theory in education and its uses in Latin American society today. An international group of contributors discuss both individual countries and the region as a whole.