Filosofía y teoría de la educación

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Roma Identity and Ritual in the Classroom

Jana Obrovská

This book addresses the dynamics of interethnic relationships in ethnically mixed classrooms in the Czech Republic. The classroom is a space in which the boundaries and meanings of facets of identity such as ethnicity, class and gender are negotiated on a daily basis: using rich ethnographic data, the author grounds the analysis in a novel theoretical framework which uses the t...

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120,31 €
Time Management

David McKeown / Greg Allen

Time Management is perhaps something every person should learn about in greatest detail. This is because time is the only commodity in your life that you cannot regain once it is lost. Time is what makes your life and if and when you realize that with every minute that passes you are closer to your death, you will never ever want to see a moment lost. Many people complain that...

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14,61 €
The Man Who Was Different

Mark Currie

A deceptively simple fable featuring a man unlike any other who proudly presents himself to the world in search of love and acceptance.The book is thought-provoking and motivational, incorporating simple black and white illustrations to highlight an essential truth about human nature. In this case, it is the truth that we are fascinated by things that are different. But also su...

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13,28 €
Critical Cosmopolitanism in Diverse Students’ Lives

Eleni M. Oikonomidoy

Grounded in a framework of critical cosmopolitanism, this book examines how students’ identities develop in new contexts and how their perceptions of themselves change. ...

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241,13 €
Sustainability, Human Well-Being, and the Future of Education

This open access book explores the key dimensions of a future education system designed to enable individuals, schools, and communities to achieve the twin twenty-first century challenges of sustainability and human well-being. For much of the twentieth century, Western education systems prepared students to enter the workforce, contribute to society and succeed in relatively p...

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34,38 €
Structural Injustices in Swedish Education

Dennis Beach

While Sweden is often viewed as a benchmark for equality within education, this book examines this assumption in greater depth. The author argues that Sweden’s education system - even prior to the global spread of neoliberalism in education, meta-policies and privatization - was never particularly equal. Instead, what became apparent was a system that offered advantages to the ...

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144,22 €
Pre-Service Teacher Education and Induction in Southwest China

Ju Huang

This book is a narrative inquiry that focuses on four participating Chinese teacher candidates’ cross-cultural learning in Canada and stories of induction in Southwest China. Through the lens of 'three-dimensional inquiry space' and 'reciprocal learning in teacher education,' the author explores the influence of cross-cultural experiences on the dissonance of pedagogies, teache...

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101,91 €
Negative Erfahrungen und Scheitern im schulischen Lernen

Severin Sales Rödel

Severin Sales Rödel widmet sich in theoretischer und empirischer Perspektive dem Scheitern, der Enttäuschung und der Überraschung im schulischen Lernen. Dabei vertritt er die These, dass sich die produktive und verändernde Kraft des Lernens nur durch solche ‚negativen’ Erfahrungen entfalten kann. In einer Phänomenologie der negativen Erfahrung zeigt der Autor an verschiedenen U...

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71,96 €
Keeping Them Out of the Hands of Satan

Susan D. Rose / Susan Rose

First published in 1988, this work was the product of extensive fieldwork in two evangelical communities. This in-depth ethnographic study focuses on the meaning systems, organizational structures and the daily lives of the people Susan D. Rose encountered. ...

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62,20 €
Cultural and Economic Reproduction in Education

Michael W. Apple

First published in 1982, this collection of essays provides an analysis of education’s contradictory role in social reproduction. It looks at the complex relations between the economic, political and cultural spheres of society, both historically and at the time of publication. ...

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64,48 €
Families and their Learning Environments

Kevin Marjoribanks

First published in 1979, this study includes detailed assessments of family environments in an analysis of performance of children at their schools. Much of the research is based on data from families in Australia, Canada and England. ...

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56,85 €
Teachers, Professionalism and Class

J T Ozga / M A Lawn

First published in 1981, this book examines the concept of professionalism in the context of the development of organized teachers. The argument is presented that the concept of professionalism is a complex one and its different meanings must be located within a historical context. ...

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57,34 €
The Sociology of Education

Donald Francis Swift / Donald Swift

First published in 1969, this book examines the educational process as a whole in relation to its society. The discussion is set within a specifically sociological frame of reference and looks at the school as an organisation as well as the social environment surrounding the school. It concludes by considering some of the basic issues concerning the functions of education for s...

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57,52 €
Sociology and Teaching

First published in 1988, this work considers the ways in which the sociology of education can inform educational practice. It examines the research which marries the two fields and considers the thinking behind it. It addresses key themes such as: sociological awareness or imagination, and how it might be stimulated and enriched by educational study; reflectivity for both teach...

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57,01 €
School Experience

First published in 1977, this volume brings together a range of viewpoints, informed by reports of empirical research, which bear on the experience of school. Each chapter demonstrates the application of the ’new sociology of education’ in its various guises to the world of teachers and pupils. In doing so, they exemplify the fields of investigation opened up by these theoretic...

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64,84 €
Human Conditions

Merry I. White / Merry White / Robert A Levine

First published in 1986, this book proposes and illustrates a new approach to the comparative analysis of educational policy, based on anthropological and historical inquiry. It reviews the transitions of Western countries, Japan, and the People’s Republic of China and in doing so investigates cultural ideas of human potential and how they inform social and economic goals of ed...

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56,94 €
Education State and Crisis

Madan Sarup

First published in 1982, this work is a critical survey of contemporary educational debates and themes which took on new urgency and importance at the time. In particular, it explores the problematic nature of ’progressive education’ and ’discipline’; the changes in the labour process and youth unemployment; the nature of the state and its relationship with schooling; the growt...

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38,49 €
Social Analysis of Education

Philip Wexler

First published in 1987, this book offers an ideological critique of the new sociology of education, with the aim to redeem understanding of the social and historical character of knowledge. It argues that with an historical and social grasp, university knowledge can be understood as a collective product and can become a useful resource for encountering and transforming the soc...

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57,03 €
Education and Cultural Differences

First published in 1992, this book looks at the interaction between ideals and reality, with the focus upon social inequality and education in modern society, as well as the possibilities for education to lessen the related problems. The essays in this volume examine three forms of inequality in global society: aboriginal societies in modern industrial states; long-established ...

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82,44 €
Growing up in the Playground

Andy Sluckin

First published in 1981, this work is based on the author’s research in the playgrounds of two Oxford schools. It describes the order amongst the apparent chaos by relating the playtime activities - the games, rhymes and taunts of five-to-ten-year-olds in first and middle schools - to children’s goals, problems and solutions. It shows how children learn and display in the playg...

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57,47 €
Knowledge, Ideology and the Politics of Schooling

Rachel Sharp

First published in 1980, this book argues that a theory of ideology is essential to a theory of education. It relates developments in the Marxist theory of ideology to the analysis of schooling in a capitalist society. Beginning with an appraisal of the early twentieth century liberal social theorists, including Weber, Durkheim, Veblen and Mannheim, it demonstrates that the wea...

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57,19 €
Young Children at School in the Inner City

Barbara Tizard / Jessica Burke / Peter Blatchford

First published in 1988, this work reports on a major British study of children’s progress and behaviour in 33 infant schools. The research looks at children from nursery through to junior school and asks why some children had higher attainments and made more progress than others. Using observations not only in schools but also interviews with children and parents, the children...

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57,04 €
Education and Social Control

Anthony Green / Jacqueline Lewis / Rachel Sharp

First published in 1975, this book offers a critique of some of the ’new perspectives’ in the sociology of education. This is achieved through a case study of a progressive child centred school.The book suggests that a liberal approach to education fails to appreciate how thoroughly a complex, stratified industrial society penetrates the school. It argues that the practice of ’...

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56,86 €
The Spiritual Nature of Atomic Structure

Patsy Stanley

This book explores the three basic parts of an atom, the proton, the electron, and the neutron, and translates those three basic parts into the human energies we all carry. We are all made of atoms, and each atom contains at least one proton/father, an electron/mother, and a neutron/child in all of humanity. Understanding this perspective gives us a basic, enlightening fram...

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8,47 €
Dismantling Race in Higher Education

This book reveals the roots of structural racism that limit social mobility and equality within Britain for Black and ethnicised students and academics in its inherently white Higher Education institutions. It brings together both established and emerging scholars in the fields of Race and Education to explore what institutional racism in British Higher Education looks like in ...

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59,51 €
Past, Present, and Future Possibilities for Philosophy and History of Education

On the occasion of the retirement of Paul Smeyers, this book considers the state and status of the philosophy and history of education today.Over the last 20 years, the conditions in which research takes place have changed considerably. They have done so in ways that are often less than favourable to disciplines such as history and philosophy of education, and the space and tim...

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145,46 €
Rethinking the Theory of Money, Credit, and Macroeconomics

John Smithin

This book is the definitive scholarly work on money, credit and macroeconomics for the twenty-first century. Nine decades ago Keynes claimed to be writing a work that would “largely revolutionize the way the world thinks about economic problems”. This is a modern day attempt with the same purpose. ...

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159,93 €
The Elements

Patsy Stanley

ELEMENTS: When studying the elements, one is studying the following. When developing a spiritual understanding of the five basic elemental energies, fire, air, earth, water, and ether, one comes to understand the Spiritual, nature of FUSION in life, The basic principles of magnetism, organization, responsibilities, and how everything connects. This half of the life force is c...

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7,78 €
Inclusion, Disability and Culture

This book provides a global and social examination of how disabilities are played out and experienced around the world. It presents auto-ethnographic perspectives on disability across cultures, societies, and countries by documenting individuals’ personal narratives, thought processes and reflections.Chapter authors share cross-cultural perspectives within and across various co...

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243,91 €
Schools as Protection?

Bjorn H. Nordtveit

In 1900 the Swedish social theorist Ellen Key launched the idea of a Century of the Child. Recent media reports, from shooting and racial violence in the US to the latest news from ISIS-dominated areas provide a darker vision: it is certainly not a time for children; it is a time during which children’s wellbeing is being the cause of worry. This book is about schools and prote...

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66,36 €

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