Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Whiteness Is the New South Africa
Qualitative Research on Post-Apartheid Racism
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
In 1994, the world joined South Africa in celebration of the results of its first democratic election. The results, emblazoned on the world’s memory with President Nelson Mandela waving to a multiracial crowd, signified the end of apartheid and an emerging new era of hope. However, Mandela’s recent...
by Thomas Johansson, Marcus Herz
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
This book provides an updated and fresh introduction to recent theoretical developments in youth studies. It expands upon these developments and introduces new discussions and perspectives. It presents three central theoretical traditions in youth studies, and explores the possibilities of redefining...
by William Van Zyl
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
ABSTRACT
The theory of "modernisation" and the concept of "development education" have moved over the past decades from Neoliberalism to a future digital paradigm. With the advent of logarithmic development in the digital environment over the past 20 to 30 years, the...
Il manuale degli aforismi
Manuale per formatori, counselor e coach
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 24, 2017
«Il nome del libro nasce da un'idea, un’ispirazione; un pensiero che racchiude le varie porte che apriamo nella nostra mente durante il nostro cammino, il nostro sentiero di vita. Molti grandi uomini hanno deciso di lasciare aperte queste porte con memorabili aforismi!
Nella propria attività di...
Transactional Psychology of Education
Toward a Strong Version of the Social
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Toward the end of his life, the Russian psychologist L.S. Vygotsky turned away from his earlier work that he has become famous for only to sow the seeds for a new theory. In this theory, affect was to play a central role, there was to be a primacy of social relations, and anything mental (mind, thought,...
Children of the Mediterranean
The odyssey of the Unescorted Refugee Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
A new-historical, realistic, social-political novel. A current, strong reference to the refugee crisis, which strikes the unescorted innocent refugee children.
At the beginning of the autumn of 2014, Leto, a teacher of Greek literature is assigned in a secondary school of Kos, as a contract teacher....
Gender Pedagogy
Teaching, Learning and Tracing Gender in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
When addressed in its full reactive potential, gender has a tendency to unfix the reassuring certainties of education and academia. Gender pedagogy unfolds as an account of teaching gender learning that is rooted in Derrida's concept of the 'trace', reflecting the unfixing properties of gender and even shaking up academic knowledge production.
Scientific Controversies
Philosophical and Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2000
Traditionally it has been thought that scientific controversies can always be resolved on the basis of empirical data. Recently, however, social constructionists have claimed that the outcome of scientific debates is strongly influenced by non-evidential factors such as the rhetorical prowess and...
Dirty Science
How Unscientific Methods Are Blocking Our Cultural Advancement
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Establishment scientists are trying to tell us that there is no reality beyond the physical. They have not proved this scientifically, so they resort to unscientific methods such as ridicule and power politics to force this assertion upon the academic community. Academic people who take an interest...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This book restores the concept of topology to its rhetorical roots to assist scholars who wish not just to criticize power dynamics, but also to invent alternatives. Topology is a spatial rather than a causal method. It works inductively to model discourse without reducing it to the actions of a few...
Childhood Sexuality and AIDS Education
The Price of Innocence
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Primary schoolchildren are frequently shielded from education on sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases in an effort to protect their innocence. In countries like South Africa, where AIDS is particularly widespread, it is especially important to address prevention with younger boys and girls...
Foucault’s Strata and Fields
An Investigation into Archaeological and Genealogical Science Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by Billy Wong
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Is science typically for White men? Is science for 'people like us'? What are the barriers and opportunities? This book explores the science career aspirations of minority ethnic students. It investigates the views, experiences and identities of British Black Caribbean, Bangladeshi, Chinese, Indian and Pakistani youths in relation to science.
Cognition and Fact
Materials on Ludwik Fleck
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Within the last ten years, the interest of historians and philosophers of science in the epistemological writings of the Polish medical microbiologist Ludwik Fleck (1896-1961), who had up to then been almost completely unknown, has advanced with great strides. His main writings on epistemological...