Making Of Distinctions

Author : Antony Palackal,Nandita Chaudhary,Giuseppina Marsico
Publisher : IAP
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781648023224

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Making of Distinctions by Antony Palackal,Nandita Chaudhary,Giuseppina Marsico Pdf

The volume revolves around the theme ‘inclusive oppositions’ in social sciences that address the issue of making of distinctions and create artificial dichotomies and dualistic view of society. It is set against the currents of systematic reduction of anthropodiversity and psychodiversity, which appears as a pathology of the current neo-liberalist and colonialist model of development. The volume is an attempt to overcome the colonial tendencies and forces to ‘standardize’ and ‘homogenize’ various categories and institutions in society by establishing structural relationality and intersectionality between the parts of the whole ecosystem where in the human and non-human intersect and interact. The volume brings together a unique collaboration in the field of Cultural Psychology and offers the intellectual tools to grasp how a syncretic understanding of Identity and Culture unfolds, particularly in the key domain of gender. The chapters and commentaries uncover cultural dynamics and identity formation from a specific location, the region of Kerala in south-western India. The chapters and commentaries in this volume illustrates that Kerala is a cultural micro-cosmos, in which gender, identity, religion, ethnicity, caste, global market and tradition intersect to create complex and multiple subjects that do not fit in binary categorizations. The compiled volume will be of great value to scholars, researchers and academicians in Social Sciences, particularly Cultural Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology, Social Work, Political Science, Philosophy, Anthropology and Economics.

Author : Sverker Lindblad,Daniel Pettersson,Thomas S. Popkewitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351586085

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Education by the Numbers and the Making of Society by Sverker Lindblad,Daniel Pettersson,Thomas S. Popkewitz Pdf

International statistical comparisons of nations have become commonplace in the contemporary landscape of education policy and social science. This book discusses the emergence of these international comparisons as a particular style of reasoning about education, society and science. By examining how international educational assessments have come to dominate much of contemporary policymaking concerning school system performance, the authors provide concrete case studies highlighting the preeminent role of numbers in furthering neoliberal education reform. Demonstrating how numbers serve as ‘rationales’ to shape and fashion social issues, this text opens new avenues for thinking about institutional and epistemological factors that produce and shape educational policy, research and schooling in transnational contexts.

Author : Ted Honderich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317516132

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Essays on Freedom of Action (Routledge Revivals) by Ted Honderich Pdf

Essays on Freedom of Action, first published in 1973, brings together original papers by contemporary British and American philosophers on questions which have long concerned philosophers and others: the question of whether persons are wholly a part of the natural world and their actions the necessary effects of causal processes, and the question of whether our actions are free, and such that we can be held responsible for them, even if they are the necessary effects of casual processes. This volume will be of interest not only to those who are primarily concerned with philosophy but also to students in those many other disciplines in which freedom and determinism arise as problems.

Author : Reader in Applied Linguistics Vivian Cook,Vivian Cook,Benedetta Bassetti
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136866401

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Language and Bilingual Cognition by Reader in Applied Linguistics Vivian Cook,Vivian Cook,Benedetta Bassetti Pdf

This innovative volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between language and cognition with a focus on bilinguals. It brings together contributions from international leading figures in various disciplines and showcases contemporary research on the emerging area of bilingual cognition. The first part of the volume discusses the relationship between language and cognition as studied in various disciplines, from psychology to philosophy to anthropology to linguistics, with chapters written by some of the major thinkers in each discipline. The second part concerns language and cognition in bilinguals. Following an introductory overview and contributions from established figures in the field, bilingual cognition researchers provide examples of their latest research on topics including time, space, motion, colors, and emotion. The third part discusses practical applications of the idea of bilingual cognition, such as marketing and translation. The volume is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students with an interest in language and cognition, or in bilingualism and second languages.

Author : Muhammad Hasan Ibrahim
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110905397

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Grammatical Gender by Muhammad Hasan Ibrahim Pdf

Author : Timothy Williamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198728887

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Tetralogue by Timothy Williamson Pdf

"For those new to philosophy, 'Tetralogue' is a marvellous way into the subject. For those who are old hands, it neatly poses serious questions about truth and falsity, relativism and dogma."--Dust jacket flap.

Author : Renata Tesch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135388027

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Qualitative Research: Analysis Types & Tools by Renata Tesch Pdf

First published in 1990. There was a time when most researchers believed that the only phenomena that counted in the social sciences were those that could be measured. To make that perfectly clear, they called any phenomenon they intended to study a 'variable', indicating that the phenomenon could vary in size, length, amount, or any other quantity. Unfortunately, not many phenomena in the human world comes naturally in quantities. If we cannot even give a useful answer to what qualitative analysis is and how it works, then it seems rather incongruent to try and involve a computer, the very essence of precision and orderliness. Isn't qualitative analysis a much too individualistic and flexible an activity to be supported by a computer? Won't a computer do exactly what qualitative researchers want to avoid, namely standardize the process? Won't it mechanize and rigidify qualitative analysis? The answer to these questions is NO, and this book explains why.

Author : David C. Berliner,Haggai Kupermintz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135246983

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Fostering Change in Institutions, Environments, and People by David C. Berliner,Haggai Kupermintz Pdf

This volume is comprised of contributions from leading scholars in education and psychology. In part one of the book the authors provide insight into the psychology of change, examining: What factors work as catalysts for change in environments, institutions and people What factors hinder change When change is deemed beneficial In the second part of this volume the authors turn their attention to the issue of peace education. They examine the types of problems that societies and scholars should identify and try to solve in hopes of building more peaceful environments. The final chapter is a biography honoring Professor Gavriel (Gabi) Salomon, a significant contributor to the vast literature on change. This book is appropriate reading for professors, students and academics who are dedicated to fostering change to benefit institutions, environments and people.

Author : P.T. Durbin,F. Rapp
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400971240

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Philosophy and Technology by P.T. Durbin,F. Rapp Pdf

Only recently has the phenomenon of technology become an object of in terest for philosophers. The first attempts at a philosophy of technology date back scarcely a hundred years - a span of time extremely short when com pared with the antiquity of philosophical reflections on nature, science, and society. Over that hundred-year span, speculative, critical, and empiricist approaches of various sorts have been put forward. Nevertheless, even now there remains a broad gap between the importance of technology in the real world and the sparse number of philosophical works dedicated to the under standing of modern technology. As a result of the complex structure of modern technology, it can be dealt with in very different ways. These range from metaphysical exposition to efforts aimed at political consensus. Quite naturally, within such a broad range, certain national accents can be discovered-; they are shaped by a com mon language, accepted philosophical traditions, and concrete problems requiring consideration. Even so, the worldwide impact of technology, its penetration into all spheres of individual, social, and cultural life, together with the urgency of the problems raised in this context - all these demand a joint philosophical discussion that transcends the barriers of language and cultural differences. The papers printed here are intended to exemplify such an effort at culture-transcending philosophical discussion.

Author : Dror Wahrman,Ruth N Halls Professor of History Dror Wahrman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300102512

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The Making of the Modern Self by Dror Wahrman,Ruth N Halls Professor of History Dror Wahrman Pdf

Wahrman argues that toward the end of the 18th century there was a radical change in notions of self & personal identity - a sudden transformation that was a revolution in the understanding of selfhood & of identity categories including race, gender, & class.

Author : James Legge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Chinese literature
ISBN : UOM:39015021244598

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The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius by James Legge Pdf

Author : Jenny Ozga,Terri Seddon,Thomas S. Popkewitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134241408

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World Yearbook of Education 2006 by Jenny Ozga,Terri Seddon,Thomas S. Popkewitz Pdf

This volume considers the ways in which educational research is being shaped by policy across the globe. Policy effects on research are increasingly influential, as policies in and beyond education drive the formation of a knowledge-based economy by supporting increased international competitiveness through more effective, evidence-based interventions in schooling, education and training systems. What consequences does this increased steering have for research in education? How do transnational agencies make their influence felt on educational research? How do national systems and traditions of educational research - and relations with policy - respond to these new pressures? What effects does it have on the quality of research and on the freedom of researchers to pursue their own agendas? The 2006 volume of the World Yearbook of Education explores these issues, focusing on three key themes: globalising policy and research in education steering education research in national contexts global-local politics of education research. The 2006 volume has a truly global reach, incorporating transnational policy perspectives from the OECD and the European Commission, alongside national cases from across the world in contrasting contexts that include North and South America, Canada, France, Singapore, China, Russia and New Zealand. The range of contributions reflect how pervasive these developments are, how much is new in this situation and to what extent evidence-based policy pressures on research in education build on past relationships between education and policy. This book considers the impact of the steering processes on the work and identities of individual researchers and considers how research can be organised to play a more active role in the politics of the knowledge economy and learning society.

Author : Patrick Maynard
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501728624

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Drawing Distinctions by Patrick Maynard Pdf

"If our procedure is to work steadily in the direction of drawing as fine art, rather than (as we so often find) beginning from examples of such art, where shall we begin? One attractive possibility is to begin at the beginning—not the beginning in prehistory, which is already wonderful art, but with our personal beginnings as children. From there it will be the ambitious project of this book to investigate 'the course of drawing,' from the first marks children make to the greatest graphic arts of different cultures."—from the IntroductionPatrick Maynard surveys the rich and varied practices of drawing, from the earliest markings on cave walls to the complex technical schematics that make the modern world possible, from cartoons and the first efforts of preschoolers to the works of skilled draftspeople and the greatest artists, East and West.Despite, or perhaps because of, its ubiquity, drawing as such has provoked remarkably little philosophical reflection. Nonphilosophical writing on the topic tends to be divided between specialties such as art history and mechanics. In this engagingly written and well-illustrated book, Maynard reveals the interconnections and developments that unite this fundamental autonomous human activity in all its diversity. Informed by close discussion of work in art history, art criticism, cognitive and developmental psychology, and aesthetics, Drawing Distinctions presents a theoretically sophisticated yet approachable argument that will improve comprehension and appreciation of drawing in its many forms, uses, and meanings.

Author : Peter E. Langford
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135426460

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Vygotsky's Developmental and Educational Psychology by Peter E. Langford Pdf

Vygotsky's Developmental and Educational Psychology demonstrates how we can come to a new and original understanding of Vygotsky's theories through knowledge of their cultural, philosophical and historical context.

Author : Irène Deliège,Geraint A. Wiggins
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135422684

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Musical Creativity by Irène Deliège,Geraint A. Wiggins Pdf

This collection initiates a resolutely interdisciplinary research dynamic specifically concerning musical creativity. Creativity is one of the most challenging issues currently facing scientific psychology and its study has been relatively rare in the cognitive sciences, especially in artificial intelligence. This book will address the need for a coherent and thorough exploration. Musical Creativity: Multidisciplinary Research in Theory and Practice comprises seven sections, each viewing musical creativity from a different scientific vantage point, from the philosophy of computer modelling, through music education, interpretation, neuroscience, and music therapy, to experimental psychology. Each section contains discussions by eminent international specialists of the issues raised, and the book concludes with a postlude discussing how we can understand creativity in the work of eminent composer, Jonathan Harvey. This unique volume presents an up-to-date snapshot of the scientific study of musical creativity, in conjunction with ESCOM (the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music). Describing many of the different aspects of musical creativity and their study, it will form a useful springboard for further such study in future years, and will be of interest to academics and practitioners in music, psychology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, neuroscience and other fields concerning the study of human cognition in this most human of behaviours.