Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
by Elisha Babad
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
Teachers often find that their training has not provided them with sufficient knowledge and understanding about underlying social forces and processes in their classrooms. This new book addresses this gap by focusing on the social psychology of the classroom, providing the relevant social psychological knowledge and facilitating the application of
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
This book is an edited collection introducing the Education Policy and Social Inequality series, and presents chapters from authors on the editorial board. It investigates relations between educational policy and social inequality, not simply in terms of policy solutions for inequalities but also...
Classical Social Theory in Use
Interpretation and Application for Educators and Other NonSpecialists
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This book provides an introduction to classical social theory through discussion, application, and synthesis of the work of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and George Herbert Mead. Rather than merely summarizing and evaluating their continuing influence, their ideas and ways of reasoning are applied in...
Social Justice for the Oppressed
Critical Educators and Intellectuals Speak Out
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This book draws from interviews conducted with prominent social justice educators and activist intellectuals, such as Noam Chomsky, Gayatri Spivak, Stuart Hall, Henry Giroux, Antonia Darder, Molefi Asante, and Maxine Greene, to examine various forms of social inequities occurring in schools and society...
Experiencing Nature
Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
This volume, honoring the renowned historian of science, Allen G Debus, explores ideas of science - `experiences of nature' - from within a historiographical tradition that Debus has done much to define. As his work shows, the sciences do not develop exclusively as a result of a progressive and inexorable...
European Higher Education Policy and the Social Dimension
A Comparative Study of the Bologna Process
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
The Bologna Process has significantly shaped recent higher education policies across Europe but the impact of the social dimension has been neglected. This book provides an overview of the major Bologna reforms and through a cross-country comparative study discusses whether this social aspect can ever successfully be incorporated into policy.
Manufacturing Hope and Despair
The School and Kin Support Networks of U.S.-Mexican Youth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Relying on a wealth of ethnographic and statistical data, this groundbreaking volume documents the many constraints and social forces that prevent Mexican-origin adolescents from constructing the kinds of networks that provide access to important forms of social support. Special attention is paid...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
The current policy focus on lifelong learning ensures a gendered and class-based skills-driven agenda, with lifelong learners expected to become neo-liberal subjects rather than empowered members of communities. What complexities and challenges arise from attempts to align lifelong learning with social...
Education and Society
Places, Policies, Processes
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
This new textbook offers a wide-ranging discussion of the key debates within the sociology of education. Covering everything from policymaking and the curriculum, to class, ethnicity and gender, and the ways that they and other social divisions intersect to produce inequalities, this timely publication...
Shadow Education and Social Inequalities in Japan
Evolving Patterns and Conceptual Implications
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
This book examines why Japan has one of the highest enrolment rates in cram schools and private tutoring worldwide. It sheds light on the causes of this high dependence on ‘shadow education’ and its implications for social inequalities. The book provides a deep and extensive understanding of the...
Caribbean Achievement in Britain
Psychosocial Resources and Lived Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This book explores a range of psychosocial resources, and discusses them in relation to lived experiences and outcomes in educational and socioeconomic domains. It offers close insights into the complex relationship between psychosocial resources, such as familial influence, religiosity, aspirations,...
by Marta P. Baltodano
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
In recent years there have been strong movements of reforms in teacher education. The most common are intended to adjust teacher preparation to the standardization demands of NCLB, Race to the Top, and CAEP to make teacher education more accountable. These reforms—carried out in the name of excellence,...
Race and Gender in the Classroom
Teachers, Privilege, and Enduring Social Inequalities
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Race and Gender in the Classroom explores social inequalities in education in the current era of “post-racial” and “post-gendered” politics. In particular, this book illuminates the obstacles that mitigate the potential for teachers to serve as social justice advocates in the classroom by...
by CLEBERSON EDUARDO DA COSTA
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 10, 2014
(A5, 188 PÁGINAS) - A burguesia e / ou o capitalismo, antagonista do materialismo dialetivo da história, inconformada com o suposto “fim do capitalismo” preconizado por Marx, como medida ideológica reacionária, pode-se afirmar, nesse sentido , vai passar a usar a ideologia como um verdadeiro...