Social Aspects category: 6049 books
by Hernán Cuervo
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
This book explores what social justice looks like for rural schools in Australia. The author challenges the consensus that sees the distribution of resources as the panacea for the myriad challenges faced by rural schools and argues that the solution to inequality and injustice in rural settings has...
Rethinking Education for Social Cohesion
International Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
This book addresses current debates in the field of social cohesion. It examines the ethics and policy making of social cohesion and explores various means for promoting social cohesion including history education, citizenship education, language, human rights based teacher training and school partnerships.
Technology for Facilitating Humanity and Combating Social Deviations
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Technology has been used to perpetrate crimes against humans, animals, and the environment, which include racism, cyber-bulling, illegal pornography, torture, illegal trade of exotic species, irresponsible waste disposal, and other harmful aberrations of human behavior. Technology for Facilitating Humanity...
Sport 2.0
Transforming Sports for a Digital World
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Ramifications of the convergence of sports and digital technology, from athlete and spectator experience to the role of media innovation at the Olympics.
Digital technology is changing everything about modern sports. Athletes and coaches rely on digital data to monitor and enhance performance....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
In this book various scholars explore the material in science and science education and its role in scientific practice, such as those practices that are key to the curriculum focuses of science education programs in a number of countries.
As a construct, culture can be understood* as...
by Zinatul Iffah Abdullah
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject Social Pedagogy / Social Work, , language: English, abstract: The successes of social networks in suicide prevention are seen in various facebook support groups that catered USA citizens. In case of the UK, the availability of suicide...
Education and Masculinities
Social, cultural and global transformations
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Across media, academy and popular culture in western societies there is much talk of an implosion of the modern gender order. Education is often presented as a key site in which a crisis of masculinity is played out, and schools have become a focus for practical attempts to reconcile social and cultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
This volume informs the reader about new teachers in urban underserved schools and their development as teachers for social equity. The accounts of five novice teachers who grew up outside the communities in which they teach lead to chapters that contain advice for teacher educators, future and current...
All Learning Is Social and Emotional
Helping Students Develop Essential Skills for the Classroom and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
While social and emotional learning (SEL) is most familiar as compartmentalized programs separate from academics, the truth is, all learning is social and emotional. What teachers say, the values we express, the materials and activities we choose, and the skills we prioritize all influence how students...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
This book is an edited collection introducing the Education Policy and Social Inequality series, and presents chapters from authors on the editorial board. It investigates relations between educational policy and social inequality, not simply in terms of policy solutions for inequalities but also...
Social and Emotional Learning in Action
Experiential Activities to Positively Impact School Climate
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Social and Emotional Learning in Action*(SELA)* is an easy to use sourcebook facilitated by teaching and/or counseling practitioners primarily in school settings. The pedagogical basis for these lessons are shaped around the research findings of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional...
Classical Social Theory in Use
Interpretation and Application for Educators and Other NonSpecialists
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This book provides an introduction to classical social theory through discussion, application, and synthesis of the work of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and George Herbert Mead. Rather than merely summarizing and evaluating their continuing influence, their ideas and ways of reasoning are applied in...
Social Justice for the Oppressed
Critical Educators and Intellectuals Speak Out
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This book draws from interviews conducted with prominent social justice educators and activist intellectuals, such as Noam Chomsky, Gayatri Spivak, Stuart Hall, Henry Giroux, Antonia Darder, Molefi Asante, and Maxine Greene, to examine various forms of social inequities occurring in schools and society...
European Higher Education Policy and the Social Dimension
A Comparative Study of the Bologna Process
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
The Bologna Process has significantly shaped recent higher education policies across Europe but the impact of the social dimension has been neglected. This book provides an overview of the major Bologna reforms and through a cross-country comparative study discusses whether this social aspect can ever successfully be incorporated into policy.