Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
The Dark Places of Education (RLE Edu K)
With a Collection of Seventy-Eight Reports of School Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
The book is divided into two parts. The first forms a survey of the inadequacies of the Swiss school system in the early twentieth century (but the issues it discusses were universal ones which were just as prevalent in the English school system of that time). The second part of the book is a collection...
Macroscopic Metaphysics
Middle-Sized Objects and Longish Processes
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
This book is about our ordinary concept of matter in the form of enduring continuants and the processes in which they are involved in the macroscopic realm. It emphasises what science rather than philosophical intuition tells us about the world, and chemistry rather than the physics that is more usually...
The Claims of Parenting
Reasons, Responsibility and Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Many sociological, historical and cultural stories can be and have already been told about why it is that parents in post-industrial, western societies face an often overwhelming array of advice on how to bring up their children. At the same time, there have been several philosophical treatments of...
Urban Education in the 19th Century
Proceedings of the 1976 Annual Conference of the History of Education Society of Great Britain
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
First published in 1977, Urban Education in the 19th Century is a collection based on the conference papers of the annual 1976 conference for the History of Education Society. The book illustrates a variety of ways of elucidating the connections between education and the city, mainly in nineteenth-century...
Juggling Flaming Chain Saws
Academics in Educational Leadership Try to Balance Work and Family
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Challenges of worklife balance in the academy stem from policies and practices which remain from the time when higher education was populated mostly by married White male faculty. Those faculty were successful in their academic work because they depended upon the support of their wives to manage many...
Paranoid Pedagogies
Education, Culture, and Paranoia
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This edited book explores the under-analyzed significance and function of paranoia as a psychological habitus of the contemporary educational and social moment. The editors and contributors argue that the desire for epistemological truth beyond uncertainty characteristic of paranoia continues to profoundly...
by Alexander Meiklejohn
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Written in the midst of World War II, this book makes a strong argument for the crucial importance of education as the solution to the dilemmas with which our Anglo-Saxon culture was nurtured, with particular emphasis on the work of John Dewey and Jean-Jacques Rousseau."The schools with which...
Elite Schooling and Social Inequality
Privilege and Power in Ireland's Top Private Schools
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
This book is the first significant sociological study of Ireland’s elite private schools. It takes the reader behind the gates of these secretive institutions, and offers a compelling analysis of their role in the reproduction of social inequality in Ireland. From the selection process to past pupils’...
Sexuality, Gender and Schooling
Shifting Agendas in Social Learning
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
The sexuality of young people arouses controversy and remains a source of concern for parents, teachers, policy-makers and politicians. But what young people really think about sexuality and gender and how these issues impact upon their lives is often marginalized or overlooked.
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by Ramon Flecha (Ed.)
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
This monograph analyses and describes successful educational actions with a specific focus on vulnerable groups (i.e. youth, migrants, cultural groups e.g. Roma, women, and people with disabilities). Concrete data that shows success in school performance in subject matters such as math or language...
Kids in the Middle
The Micro Politics of Special Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Kids in the Middle: The Micro-Politics of Special Education takes the reader on a fascinating journey through special education in the past, present, and future. On this journey, the micro-politics of special education are seen through the eyes and experiences of children with disabilities, their...
Physical Systems
Conceptual Pathways between Flat Space-time and Matter
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Based on the concept of a physical system, this book offers a new philosophical interpretation of classical mechanics and the Special Theory of Relativity. According to Belkind’s view the role of physical theory is to describe the motions of the parts of a physical system in relation to the motions...
Niklas Luhmann
Education as a Social System
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This book provides an insight into the ideas of one of the world’s greatest sociologists: Niklas Luhmann. It explains, in clear and concise language, the basic concepts of Social Systems Theory and their application to the specific case of the Education System, which was considered by Luhmann as...
Critical Race, Feminism, and Education
A Social Justice Model
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Critical Race, Feminism, and Education: A Social Justice Model provides a transformative next step in the evolution of critical race and Black feminist scholarship. Focusing on praxis, the relationship between the construction of race, class, and gender categories and social justice outcomes is analyzed....