Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
PEDAGOGIA DA MEDIOCRIDADE
O INDIVIDUALISMO & A MERITOCRACIA SISTEMATIZADOS COMO OS VALORES DA ESCOLA
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 18, 2014
(A5, 228 PÁGINAS) - A obsolescência programada - globalização da globalização e dos principais fundamentos do mundo Neoliberal e Pós-moderno capitalista - trouxe para a sociedade planetária problemas que ela não sabe e não sabe resolver.
Problemas relacionados às dimensões humanas,...
Alternative Schooling, Social Justice and Marginalised Students
Teaching and Learning in an Alternative Music School
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This book examines the experiences and perspectives of students and teachers at an alternative music school, which caters for young learners who have been marginalised and disenfranchised from mainstream schooling. The school utilises a rich music-infused curriculum that connects to the lives of its...
Social Linguistics and Literacies
Ideology in Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
In its first edition, Social Linguistics and Literacies was a major contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary field of sociocultural approaches to language and literacy, and was one of the founding texts of the ‘New Literacy Studies’.
This book serves as a classic introduction to the...
by Christopher Glenn
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
In this book you will find over 150 role plays, micro (quick) role plays, creative activities, and guided imagery which has been developed and used for over 33 years. Everyday people can use these activities to have fun with children in the 8 to 11+ age range, and professionals can take advantage...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Truly international in scope, this Handbook focuses on approaches to discipline, surveillance and social control from around the world, critically examining the strategies and practices schools employ to monitor students and control their behavior. Bringing together leading scholars from a range of...
Longing for Justice
Higher Education and Democracy's Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
A timely and persuasive argument for Higher Education’s obligations to our democratic society, Longing for Justice combines personal narrative with critical analysis to make the case for educational practices that connect to questions of democracy, justice, and the common good. Jennifer S. Simpson...
Critical Writing for Embodied Approaches
Autoethnography, Feminism and Decoloniality
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Autoethnography is a unique discipline which steps inside and outside the self to experience, embody and express social and cultural meaning. At once a performative, political and poetic genre of research writing, it holds the potential to uncover the ‘heart of the world’, if only for a moment....
by Paul Diesing
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Social scientists are often vexed because their work does not satisfy the criteria of "scientific" methodology developed by philosophers of science and logicians who use the natural sciences as their model. In this study, Paul Diesing defines science not by reference to these arbitrary norms...
Gender Regulation, Violence and Social Hierarchies in School
'Sluts', 'Gays' and 'Scrubs'
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This book investigates the reasons why the traditional psychological understanding of bullying fails those affected, and deconstructs how bullying is shaped by prominent discourse. By drawing on poststructuralist feminist theory Victoria Rawlings highlights the social and cultural inequalities too...
The Classroom as Privileged Space
Psychoanalytic Paradigms for Social Justice in Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The Classroom as Privileged Space: Psychoanalytic Paradigms for Social Justice in Pedagogy examines the psychic and emotional effects of the dehumanization of children based on social discrimination and difference within schooling. Used as a tool to critique the current state of social justice within...
Education Governance and Social Theory
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
The study of 'education governance' is a significant area of research in the twenty-first century concerned with the changing organisation of education systems, relations and processes against the background of wider political and economic developments occurring nationally and globally. In Education...
Reality Check
How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
A thought-provoking look at science denialism “for popular science readers who want better to be able to explain and defend science and scientific methods to others” (Library Journal).
The battles over evolution, climate change, childhood vaccinations, and the causes of AIDS, alternative...
Strong Spirits, Kind Hearts
Helping Students Develop Inner Strength, Resilience, and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Strong Spirits, Kind Hearts is the first practical teacher resource to provide comprehensive coverage of all aspects of developing strong spirits and caring young people. It is focused on middle years’ students but most lessons can be adapted for older and younger students as well. This resource...
by Rudolf Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
As early as 1884, while tutoring a boy with special needs, Steiner began a lifelong interest in applying spiritual knowledge to the practical aspects of life. Steiner originally published the essay at the core of this book in 1907. It represents his earliest ideas on education, in which he lays out the...