Through textual analysis and interviews with key figures, this book offers a globally extensive narrative of the histories of comparative education. Drawing on a formidable range of data, it will assist scholars who seek a genuine grasp of the field.
This book focuses on the development of new thinking in complexity and on the tools needed for this new thinking, i.e. the development of a new language for complexity. This new language is very much about how a nonlinear complex reality is part of real-world complexity. We can …
Today, hardly anything moves as fast across the globe as images and media. This fact opens new avenues to explore social and cultural change, but also poses new theoretical challenges of how to grasp and better understand these changes and flows. Moreover, such movements across …
Asks what is meant by complexity and how it might be handled within knowledge practices without generating a chaos of further complexities. "There is much here to provoke new thought and insight into the meaning of complexity, and the authors do show how any reduction will inev…
Asks what is meant by complexity and how it might be handled within knowledge practices without generating a chaos of further complexities. "There is much here to provoke new thought and insight into the meaning of complexity, and the authors do show how any reduction will inev…
This book addresses questions surrounding the feasibility of a global approach to ethical governance of science and technology. The emergence and rapid spread of nanotechnology offers a test case for how the world might act when confronted with a technology that could transform …
"Autobiographical memory plays a key role in psychological well-being, and the field has been investigated from multiple perspectives for over thirty years. One large body of research has examined the basic mechanisms and characteristics of autobiographical memory during general…
Dylan at Play offers a selection of writings that can challenge and engross readers eager for new ways to meet the singularity of Bob Dylan's work. We have no interest in competing Other the almost numberless and ever-increasing quantity of critical and encyclopedic writing on D…
This book offers fascinating insights into the lives of our ancestors and investigates the dynamic processes that led to the establishment of complex human societies. It provides a holistic view of human history and social evolution by drawing on the latest evidence from a wide …
Dementia is an urgent global concern, often termed a widespread'problem', 'tragedy' or'burden' and a subject best addressed by health and social policy and practice. However, creative writers can offer powerful and imaginative insights into the experience of dementia across cult…
