Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Education cannot be understood today without recognizing that nearly all educational policies and practices are strongly influenced by an increasingly integrated international economy. Reforms in one country have significant effects in others, just as immigration and population tides from one area...
Being Bad
My Baby Brother and the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Being Bad will change the way you think about the social and academic worlds of Black boys. In a poignant and harrowing journey from systems of education to systems of criminal justice, the author follows her brother, Chris, who has been designated a “bad kid” by his school, a “person...
Curriculum on the Edge of Survival
How Schools Fail to Prepare Students for Membership in a Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Typically, school curriculum has been viewed through the lens of preparation for the workplace or higher education, both worthy objectives. However, this is not the only lens, and perhaps not even the most powerful one to use, if the goal is to optimize the educational system. Curriculum on the Edge...
Making Sense of Education Policy
Studies in the Sociology and Politics of Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2002
`This book is a very worthwhile read for teachers, student teachers and teacher educators. It would be encouraging if politically based policy makers were to digest its contents also' - Citizenship, Social and Economics Education
`I recommend this book as an enjoyable, thought provoking and...
How to Build a Life in the Humanities
Meditations on the Academic Work-Life Balance
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
A follow-up to the popular Graduate Study for the 21st Century , this book seeks to expand professional development to include the personal aspects of daily lives in the humanities. How to Build a Life in the Humanities delves into pressing work-life issues such as post-tenure depression, academic life with children, aging, and adjuncting.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
As computers are increasingly integrated into the classroom, instructors must address a number of pressing ethical questions regarding online behavior, course design, cyberbullying, and student cyber behavior. Ethical Technology Use, Policy, and Reactions in Educational Settings provides state-of-the-art...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
The servicelearning field is 50 years old in the United States. Much has been developed over that time in the fields of K12 schooling, higher education, and community organizations. People who have been involved in the movement have worked individually and collaboratively to include servicelearning as...
Probing the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics
Physical, Philosophical and Logical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
This book provides a new original perspective on one of the most fascinating and important open questions in science: What is quantum mechanics talking about? Quantum theory is perhaps our best confirmed physical theory. However, in spite of its great empirical effectiveness and the subsequent technological...
Education, Work and Social Change
Young People and Marginalization in Post-Industrial Britain
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Drawing on a longitudinal study of the lives of NEET young people, this book looks beyond dominant discourses on youth unemployment to provide a rich, detailed account of young people's experiences of participation and non-participation on the margins of education and employment, highlighting the policy implications of this research.
by Catherine O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
In this innovative and cogent presentation of her concept of sustainable happiness, Catherine O’Brien outlines how the leading recommendations for transforming education can be integrated within a vision of well-being for all. Solution-focused, the book demonstrates how aspects of this vision are...
by Derek Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
In an effort to address the problems confronting the American education system, the Obama administration has issued structural and systematic reforms such as Race to the Top. These initiatives introduce new statistics and accountability systems to gauge what constitutes "good" teaching,...
Building Resilience of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children in China
Power, Politics, Participation, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
The past two decades have seen exponential growth of urbanisation and migration in China. Emerging from this growth is a population of floating and left-behind children which is estimated to be approaching 100 million. Due to their increasing risks of undesirable educational and social, as well as...
Critical Literacy, Schooling, and Social Justice
The Selected Works of Allan Luke
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
In the World Library of Educationalists series, international scholars themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/or practical contributions – so the world can read...
Culture in School Learning
Revealing the Deep Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Challenging educators to better understand themselves and their students, this text presents a powerful process for developing a teaching perspective that embraces the centrality of culture in school learning. The six-part process covers examining culture, personalizing culture, inquiring about students'...