Based around pedagogical theory and concrete practical examples and experiences from the classroom, the book contributes with a multiplicity of knowledge to the growing appetite for interdisciplinary initiatives at universities....Lasīt vairāk
In this book the author directly confronts an ever more popular suspicion - that a university education in the humanities and social sciences is actually an elitist indoctrination into leftist or liberal views....Lasīt vairāk
A survey of the trajectory of research in literature, history, sociology, and economics over the past century, as well as the values, priorities and agendas of the modern research university, this book argues that in spite of its wealth, power and s...Lasīt vairāk
An innovative contribution to debates on the internationalization and globalization of the social sciences, this book pays particular attention to their theoretical and epistemological reconfiguration in the light of postcolonial critiques and criti...Lasīt vairāk
The Role of Social Science in the Education of Professional Practitioners explores the inter-relation between the social sciences and professional practice, particularly in areas of health and social welfare, and the form that professional education...Lasīt vairāk
The result of an empirical study, this book illuatrates that business schools practicing linking management education to the humanities and social sciences can significantly help management education with meeting the challenges of the 21st century....Lasīt vairāk
The Changing Face of Higher Education explores whether the humanities are in crisis, what form that crisis takes, and what the responses should be. Examinging the state of the humanities in ten countries, this book disectes the claim that there is a...Lasīt vairāk
Based on extant research and collective years of academic experience, The Ethical Professor will seek to shorten the learning curve around common ethical pitfalls and issues by defining them, sharing research and experiences about them, and offering...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Apr-2014, Izdevniecība: Left Coast Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9781315432090)
Weaving autoethnography, theoretical exposition, and a close examination of social trends, distinguished scholar Arthur P. Bochner shows how the theoretical paradigms in the human sciences have developed and changed over the past four decades....Lasīt vairāk
This book introduces the elements of TBL and how to apply them in the social sciences and humanities.The core of the book consists of examples of how TBL has been incorporated into the cultures of disciplines as varied as economics, education, liter...Lasīt vairāk
Social theory can usefully be conceived in terms of four key paradigms: functionalist, interpretive, radical humanist and radical structuralist. Relating finance to these four paradigms, this book provides an understanding of the multifaceted nature...Lasīt vairāk
This guide introduces case studies in the Asian social sciences into the general education curricula of American colleges and universities. The contents encompass the broadest possible range of this diverse subject....Lasīt vairāk
