Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
by John Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
We live in a time when those who wield unrestrained power believe they have the inalienable right to determine the destiny, nature and shape of social institutions like schools. Critical Pedagogy for Social Justice challenges this arrogance by showing how teachers, students, parents, communities,...
by Don Ross, Jessica C Flack, Doug Erwin
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Essays from a range of disciplinary perspectives show the central role that cooperation plays in structuring our world.
This collection reports on the latest research on an increasingly pivotal issue for evolutionary biology: cooperation. The chapters are written from a variety of disciplinary...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
The main concern of the volume is the relation of theory to practice in education but the book also reviews the state of educational theory, and its relation to politics. Beginning with a group of papers on specific areas of the relation between theory and practice, the book goes on to discuss aspects...
Knowledge and the Future of the Curriculum
International Studies in Social Realism
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
This collection explores why powerful knowledge matters for social justice and discusses its implications for curriculum and pedagogy. The contributors argue that the purpose of education is to provide all students with access to powerful knowledge so that they acquire the means to move beyond their experiences and enhance their lives.
Localising Chinese
Educating Teachers through Service-Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This book presents innovative strategies for teaching the Chinese language to English-speaking students around the world, using in-depth research arising from a long-running and successful Chinese language teaching programme in Sydney. Throughout the book its authors emphasise the importance of teaching...
Citizenship Education and Migrant Youth in China
Pathways to the Urban Underclass
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
In East Asian economies such as China, recent mass rural-urban migration has created a new urban underclass, as have their children. However, their inclusion in urban public schools is a surprisingly slow process, and youth identities in newly industrialized countries remain largely neglected. Faced...
Educating for Insurgency
The Roles of Young People in Schools of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
A manifesto for today’s broken schools.
Desegregation has failed. Schools filled with black and brown students have become plantations of social control, where the policing of behavior trumps the expanding of minds. Radical teachers and organizers in American public schools must help young...
by Rudolf Steiner; Christopher Bamford
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Meditation instructions, meditations, exercises, verses for living a spiritual year, prayers for the dead, and other practices for both beginning and experienced practitionersStart Now! is quickly becoming the classic, indispensable text and reference for all those who are serious about the practice...
School Choice
The Moral Debate
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
School choice has lately risen to the top of the list of potential solutions to America's educational problems, particularly for the poor and the most disadvantaged members of society. Indeed, in the last few years several states have held referendums on the use of vouchers in private and parochial...
Deschooling the Imagination
Critical Thought as Social Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
"Deschooling the Imagination: Critical Thought as Social Practice" is, first, a book that looks at what it means to be actively engaged in developing a critical/creative mindset against the prevailing ideology of our public schools. Second, it is a book about the social/cultural relationship...
Learning from the Ground Up
Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
The dynamics, politics, and richness of knowledge production in social movements and social activist contexts are often overlooked. This book contends that some of the most radical critiques and understandings about dominant ideologies and power structures, and visions of social change, have emerged from those spaces.
Citizenship, Education and Social Conflict
Israeli Political Education in Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
This volume provides new perspectives into the challenges of citizenship education in the age of globalization and in the context of multicultural and conflict-ridden societies. It calls on us to rethink the accepted liberal and national discourses that have long dominated the conceptualization and...
Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics
Toward a Pedagogy for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Mathematics education in the United States can reproduce social inequalities whether schools use either "basic-skills" curricula to prepare mainly low-income students of color for low-skilled service jobs or "standards-based" curricula to ready students for knowledge-intensive...
by Keratso Georgiadou
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This book explores the Muslim minority women’s perceptions of how computer education can lead them to social participation. Moreover, it discusses the contribution of (administrative) members of the community to this effort. The analysis of quantitative findings shows that Muslim women in Greek...