Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
Slavoj Žižek
A Žižekian Gaze at Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Žižek demands we take a long, hard look at the painful reality of education in contemporary capitalist society, and to actively seek out its ‘trouble in paradise’: Why is it education is supposedly failing to meet the demands of our society? Why is it there are record levels of stress for teachers?...
Lifelong Learning Participation in a Changing Policy Context
An Interdisciplinary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Drawing on the role of individuals, education and training providers and countries' social policy actions, and borrowing insights from psychology, sociology and economics, this book works towards an interdisciplinary theory of adult lifelong learning participation. It explores the fragmented evidence...
Moral Education
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
This volume, based on an interdisciplinary conference of psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, and social scientists, explores a topic of vital importance today—moral education. The book is organized around four questions: the nature and scope of moral education, the problem of ethical pluralism,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This edited collection advances the call for continued multicultural dialogues within education. Dialogue and education are the two most essential tools that can help tackle some of the biggest problems we are facing across the globe, including fanaticism, chauvinistic nationalism, religious fundamentalism...
K–12 Education as a Hermeneutic Adventurous Endeavor
Toward an Educational Way of Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Considering the role of compulsory mass education and schooling in a democratic society, this book introduces an alternative vision for K-12 education as an "adventurous endeavour." Grounded in a strong theoretical framework, Yosef-Hassidim reveals the negative impact of instrumentalization...
The Retreat from Public Education
Global and Israeli Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2009
In recent decades the pendulum is swinging away from the idea and ideals of public education, and a new ethos increasingly takes over the shrinking public space of education. In the 1980s markets were elevated to social and economic icons, becoming a new secular faith. Privatizing public education...
by George J. Sefa Dei
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
This book grounds particular struggles at the curious interface of skin, body, psyche, hegemonies and politics. Specifically, it adds to current [re]theorizations of Blackness, anti-Blackness and Black solidarities, through anti-colonial and decolonial prisms. The discussion challenges the reductionism...
Education in Times of Environmental Crises
Teaching Children to Be Agents of Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The core assumption of this book is the interconnectedness of humans and nature, and that the future of the planet depends on humans’ recognition and care for this interconnectedness. This comprehensive resource supports the work of pre-service and practicing elementary teachers as they teach their...
Logics of Socialist Education
Engaging with Crisis, Insecurity and Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
For some, socialism is a potent way of achieving economic, political and social transformations in the twenty-first century, while others find the very term socialism outdated. This book engages readers in a discussion about the viability of socialist views on education and identifies the capacity...
Inclusive Physical Activities
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Increasing numbers of children and adolescents internationally are being diagnosed with secondary health problems (e.g., overweightobesity, diabetes, asthma, anxiety, etc.) due in part, or at least related to, a lack of physical activity. Children and adolescents with various forms of special needs (for...
The Hostile Environment
Students Who Bully in School
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
The Hostile Environment examines the latest psychological and educational research providing evidence that anti-bullying programs and school-based interventions lack intensity and a strong behavioral focus. This book includes information on characteristics and risk factors of bully perpetrators and...
Global Teaching
Southern Perspectives on Teachers Working with Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
At a time when social, cultural and linguistic diversity has become a characteristic of education systems around the world, this timely text considers how teacher education is responding to these developments in the context of increased mobilities within and across national boundaries. This collection...
Partnerships in Education Research
Creating Knowledge that Matters
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Partnerships in Education Research provides the epistemological and philosophical basis for engaging with partners in research and discusses many of the practical issues facing researchers such as finding the right research partner, developing partnership protocols, joint planning approaches and creating...
Material Agency
Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Thus far an ‘agent’ in the social sciences has always meant someone whose actions bring about change. In this volume, the editors challenge this position and examine the possibility that agency is not a solely human property. Instead, this collection of archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists...