Author: Hester Barron
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526150743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book shows why the study of schooling matters to the history of twentieth-century Britain, integrating the history of education within the wider concerns of modern social history. Drawing on a rich array of archival and autobiographical sources, it captures in vivid detail the individual moments that made up the minutiae of classroom life. It focuses on elementary education in interwar London, arguing that schools were grounded in their local communities as lynchpins of social life and drivers of change. Exploring crucial questions around identity and belonging, poverty and aspiration, class and culture, behaviour and citizenship, it provides vital context for twenty-first century debates about education and society, showing how the same concerns were framed a century ago.
Decoding the Social World
Author: Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262343460
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
How data science and the analysis of networks help us solve the puzzle of unintended consequences. Social life is full of paradoxes. Our intentional actions often trigger outcomes that we did not intend or even envision. How do we explain those unintended effects and what can we do to regulate them? In Decoding the Social World, Sandra González-Bailón explains how data science and digital traces help us solve the puzzle of unintended consequences—offering the solution to a social paradox that has intrigued thinkers for centuries. Communication has always been the force that makes a collection of people more than the sum of individuals, but only now can we explain why: digital technologies have made it possible to parse the information we generate by being social in new, imaginative ways. And yet we must look at that data, González-Bailón argues, through the lens of theories that capture the nature of social life. The technologies we use, in the end, are also a manifestation of the social world we inhabit. González-Bailón discusses how the unpredictability of social life relates to communication networks, social influence, and the unintended effects that derive from individual decisions. She describes how communication generates social dynamics in aggregate (leading to episodes of “collective effervescence”) and discusses the mechanisms that underlie large-scale diffusion, when information and behavior spread “like wildfire.” She applies the theory of networks to illuminate why collective outcomes can differ drastically even when they arise from the same individual actions. By opening the black box of unintended effects, González-Bailón identifies strategies for social intervention and discusses the policy implications—and how data science and evidence-based research embolden critical thinking in a world that is constantly changing.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262343460
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
How data science and the analysis of networks help us solve the puzzle of unintended consequences. Social life is full of paradoxes. Our intentional actions often trigger outcomes that we did not intend or even envision. How do we explain those unintended effects and what can we do to regulate them? In Decoding the Social World, Sandra González-Bailón explains how data science and digital traces help us solve the puzzle of unintended consequences—offering the solution to a social paradox that has intrigued thinkers for centuries. Communication has always been the force that makes a collection of people more than the sum of individuals, but only now can we explain why: digital technologies have made it possible to parse the information we generate by being social in new, imaginative ways. And yet we must look at that data, González-Bailón argues, through the lens of theories that capture the nature of social life. The technologies we use, in the end, are also a manifestation of the social world we inhabit. González-Bailón discusses how the unpredictability of social life relates to communication networks, social influence, and the unintended effects that derive from individual decisions. She describes how communication generates social dynamics in aggregate (leading to episodes of “collective effervescence”) and discusses the mechanisms that underlie large-scale diffusion, when information and behavior spread “like wildfire.” She applies the theory of networks to illuminate why collective outcomes can differ drastically even when they arise from the same individual actions. By opening the black box of unintended effects, González-Bailón identifies strategies for social intervention and discusses the policy implications—and how data science and evidence-based research embolden critical thinking in a world that is constantly changing.
Navigating the Social World
Author: Jeanette L. McAfee
Publisher: Future Horizons
ISBN: 9781885477828
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Because of its unique focus on teaching the critical social skills that autistic children lack, this book has been cited by "Library Journal" as "Essential to All Collections."
Publisher: Future Horizons
ISBN: 9781885477828
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Because of its unique focus on teaching the critical social skills that autistic children lack, this book has been cited by "Library Journal" as "Essential to All Collections."
Sociology
Author: Steven E. Barkan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936126538
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936126538
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The social world of the school
Author: Hester Barron
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526150743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book shows why the study of schooling matters to the history of twentieth-century Britain, integrating the history of education within the wider concerns of modern social history. Drawing on a rich array of archival and autobiographical sources, it captures in vivid detail the individual moments that made up the minutiae of classroom life. It focuses on elementary education in interwar London, arguing that schools were grounded in their local communities as lynchpins of social life and drivers of change. Exploring crucial questions around identity and belonging, poverty and aspiration, class and culture, behaviour and citizenship, it provides vital context for twenty-first century debates about education and society, showing how the same concerns were framed a century ago.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526150743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book shows why the study of schooling matters to the history of twentieth-century Britain, integrating the history of education within the wider concerns of modern social history. Drawing on a rich array of archival and autobiographical sources, it captures in vivid detail the individual moments that made up the minutiae of classroom life. It focuses on elementary education in interwar London, arguing that schools were grounded in their local communities as lynchpins of social life and drivers of change. Exploring crucial questions around identity and belonging, poverty and aspiration, class and culture, behaviour and citizenship, it provides vital context for twenty-first century debates about education and society, showing how the same concerns were framed a century ago.
Making Sense of the Social World
Author: Daniel F. Chambliss
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1506364101
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. Congratulations to Daniel F. Chambliss, winner of the ASA Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Prize for 2018. The new Sixth Edition of Making Sense of the Social World continues to be an unusually accessible and student-friendly introduction to the variety of social research methods, guiding undergraduate readers to understand research in their roles as consumers and novice producers of social science. Known for its concise, casual, and clear writing, its balanced treatment of quantitative and qualitative approaches, and its integrated approach to the fundamentals, the text has much to offer both novice researchers and more advanced students alike. The authors use a wide variety of examples from formal studies and everyday experiences to illustrate important principles and techniques. A Complete Teaching & Learning Package SAGE coursepacks FREE! Easily import our quality instructor and student resource content into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. SAGE edge FREE online resources for students that make learning easier.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1506364101
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. Congratulations to Daniel F. Chambliss, winner of the ASA Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Prize for 2018. The new Sixth Edition of Making Sense of the Social World continues to be an unusually accessible and student-friendly introduction to the variety of social research methods, guiding undergraduate readers to understand research in their roles as consumers and novice producers of social science. Known for its concise, casual, and clear writing, its balanced treatment of quantitative and qualitative approaches, and its integrated approach to the fundamentals, the text has much to offer both novice researchers and more advanced students alike. The authors use a wide variety of examples from formal studies and everyday experiences to illustrate important principles and techniques. A Complete Teaching & Learning Package SAGE coursepacks FREE! Easily import our quality instructor and student resource content into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. SAGE edge FREE online resources for students that make learning easier.
The Social World of Children Learning to Talk
Author: Betty Hart
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Based on data from 2-1/2 years of observing 1- and 2-year-old children learning to talk in their own homes, this book charts the month-by-month growth of the children's vocabulary, utterances, and use of grammatical structures and evaluates the effect
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Based on data from 2-1/2 years of observing 1- and 2-year-old children learning to talk in their own homes, this book charts the month-by-month growth of the children's vocabulary, utterances, and use of grammatical structures and evaluates the effect
The Social World of the Comprehensive School
Author: Glenn Turner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000628337
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
A comprehensive school, like any community, is split into many groups and sub-divisions and contains many different ‘social worlds’ within its structure. First published in 1983, this work is based on a one-year project carried out by the author which involved observation of pupils in lessons and interviews and informal conversa
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000628337
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
A comprehensive school, like any community, is split into many groups and sub-divisions and contains many different ‘social worlds’ within its structure. First published in 1983, this work is based on a one-year project carried out by the author which involved observation of pupils in lessons and interviews and informal conversa
Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School
Author: Anne Haas Dyson
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807777269
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Dyson supports efforts to make literacy curricula accessible to our schools’ socioculturally diverse population. This two-year ethnographic study of K–3 children focuses on six students who would normally be deemed “at-risk” and who do not tell stories in the written language format valued by most early literacy educators. Their literacy learning, particularly their writing development, is portrayed as a social process in a complex social world. Dyson’s key theme is the link between composing a text and composing a place in this social world. “Dyson reconceptualizes classrooms as places for dynamic combinations of critical thinking, humor, growth, and understanding for children and their teachers.” —Harvard Educational Review
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807777269
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Dyson supports efforts to make literacy curricula accessible to our schools’ socioculturally diverse population. This two-year ethnographic study of K–3 children focuses on six students who would normally be deemed “at-risk” and who do not tell stories in the written language format valued by most early literacy educators. Their literacy learning, particularly their writing development, is portrayed as a social process in a complex social world. Dyson’s key theme is the link between composing a text and composing a place in this social world. “Dyson reconceptualizes classrooms as places for dynamic combinations of critical thinking, humor, growth, and understanding for children and their teachers.” —Harvard Educational Review
High School Students' Competing Social Worlds
Author: Richard Beach
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000149609
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This book examines how working-class high school students’ identity construction is continually mediated by discourses and cultural practices operating in their classroom, school, family, sports, community, and workplace worlds. Specifically, it addresses how responding to cultural differences portrayed in multicultural literature can serve to challenge adolescents’ allegiances to status quo discourses and cultural models, and how teachers not only can rouse students to clarify and change their value stances related to race, class, and gender, but also provide support for and validation of students’ self-interrogation. Highlighting the influence of sociocultural forces, the book contributes to understanding the role of institutions in shaping adolescents’ lives, and identifies needs that must be addressed to improve those institutions. Current theory and research on critical discourse analysis, cultural models theory, and identity construction is meshed with specific applications of that theory and research to case-study profiles and analysis of classroom discussions. The instructional strategies described enable pre-service and in-service teachers to develop their own literature curriculum and instructional methods.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000149609
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This book examines how working-class high school students’ identity construction is continually mediated by discourses and cultural practices operating in their classroom, school, family, sports, community, and workplace worlds. Specifically, it addresses how responding to cultural differences portrayed in multicultural literature can serve to challenge adolescents’ allegiances to status quo discourses and cultural models, and how teachers not only can rouse students to clarify and change their value stances related to race, class, and gender, but also provide support for and validation of students’ self-interrogation. Highlighting the influence of sociocultural forces, the book contributes to understanding the role of institutions in shaping adolescents’ lives, and identifies needs that must be addressed to improve those institutions. Current theory and research on critical discourse analysis, cultural models theory, and identity construction is meshed with specific applications of that theory and research to case-study profiles and analysis of classroom discussions. The instructional strategies described enable pre-service and in-service teachers to develop their own literature curriculum and instructional methods.
The Social World
Author: Jem Amber Stone
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503508269
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
I am well-educated possessing numerous post-graduate and other degrees, certificates, and diplomas. I first achieved my Bachelor of Arts in 1989 with then majoring in Sociology and Education. I studied other subjects too including psychology and philosophy. In all honesty I did not do well at Sociology often struggling with concepts until I did several at post-graduate level. During my studies I was amazed at the number of theories students were forced to learn and know, and how they had been arrived at. Often the methods were very questionable. As a result, my book came about. I wanted other students to realize what I had discovered, and observed, and felt my book also contributed to the sociological debate to what society really is, and all about its creators. It is also ideally for someone who wants an educational look at my perspective on sociology. It is a simple introduction to the inside of how society is run. It does not go into detail any other sociological viewpoint, rather, just adds to the many that already exist, and hopefully, gives the reader pause on how one can create their own reality in society. As for me, I am still learning, and researching not just about sociology, but all sorts of things.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503508269
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
I am well-educated possessing numerous post-graduate and other degrees, certificates, and diplomas. I first achieved my Bachelor of Arts in 1989 with then majoring in Sociology and Education. I studied other subjects too including psychology and philosophy. In all honesty I did not do well at Sociology often struggling with concepts until I did several at post-graduate level. During my studies I was amazed at the number of theories students were forced to learn and know, and how they had been arrived at. Often the methods were very questionable. As a result, my book came about. I wanted other students to realize what I had discovered, and observed, and felt my book also contributed to the sociological debate to what society really is, and all about its creators. It is also ideally for someone who wants an educational look at my perspective on sociology. It is a simple introduction to the inside of how society is run. It does not go into detail any other sociological viewpoint, rather, just adds to the many that already exist, and hopefully, gives the reader pause on how one can create their own reality in society. As for me, I am still learning, and researching not just about sociology, but all sorts of things.