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  • Ethical and Aesthetic Explorations of Systemic Practice

    New Critical Reflections

    by Pietro Barbetta, Maria Esther Cavagnis, Inga-Britt Krause, Umberta Telfener ...
    Series series The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series
    In Ethical and Aesthetic Explorations of Systemic Practice, the four co-authors come together to rhizomatically consider how systemic theories can be reinvigorated in the present day.This fascinating book uses the ideas and work of renowned anthropologist Gregory Bateson as a springboard from which to examine the fundamental tenets of systemic theory and practice, as well as looking to the work of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Dark Matter of the Mind

    The Culturally Articulated Unconscious

    by Daniel L. Everett ...
    From a linguist and anthropologist, "a fascinating argument" about culture, cognition, and the concept of human nature ( Choice).Is it in our nature to be altruistic, or evil, to make art, use tools, or create language? Is it in our nature to think in any particular way? For Daniel L. Everett, the answer is a resounding no: it isn't in our nature to do any of these things because human nature does ... Read more

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  • Current and Future Perspectives of Ethnomathematics as a Program

    by Milton Rosa, Ubiratan D’Ambrosio, Daniel Clark Orey, Lawrence Shirley, Wilfredo V. Alangui, Pedro Palhares, Maria Elena Gavarrete ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This survey on the modernity of ethnomathematics addresses numerous themes related to both ethnomathematics and mathematics education. It offers a broader view of mathematics, including ideas, procedures, concepts, processes, methods, and practices rooted in distinct cultural environments. In addition, by reflecting on the social and political dimensions of ethnomathematics, another important ... Read more

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  • Vygotsky

    Philosophy and Education

    by Jan Derry ...
    Series series Journal of Philosophy of Education
    Vygotsky Philosophy and Education reassesses the works of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky work by arguing that his central ideas about the nature of rationality and knowledge were informed by the philosophic tradition of Spinoza and Hegel.Presents a reassessment of the works of Lev Vygotsky in light of the tradition of Spinoza and Hegel informing his workReveals Vygotsky’s connection with the ... Read more

    $36.25 USD

  • Understanding Pragmatics

    by Gunter Senft ...
    Series series Understanding Language
    Understanding Pragmatics takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide an accessible introduction to linguistic pragmatics. This book discusses how the meaning of utterances can only be understood in relation to overall cultural, social and interpersonal contexts, as well as to culture specific conventions and the speech events in which they are embedded. From a cross-linguistic and cross ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Persons and their Minds

    Towards an Integrative Theory of the Mediated Mind

    by Svend Brinkmann ...
    Series series Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation
    Today’s approaches to the study of the human mind are divided into seemingly opposed camps. On one side we find the neurosciences, with their more or less reductionist research programs, and on the other side we find the cultural and discursive approaches, with their frequent neglect of the material sides of human life. Persons and their Minds seeks to develop an integrative theory of the mind ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology

    Edited by David B. Kronenfeld, Giovanni Bennardo, Victor C. de Munck, Michael D. Fischer ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    This new Companion traces the development of cognitive anthropology from its beginnings in the late 1950s to the present, and evaluates future directions of research in the field. In 29 contributions from leading anthropologists, there is an overview of cognitive and cultural structures, insights into how cognition works in everyday life and interacts with culture, and examples of contemporary ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • Transitions in Mathematics Education

    by Ghislaine Gueudet, Marianna Bosch, Andrea A. diSessa, Oh Nam Kwon, Lieven Verschaffel ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines the kinds of transitions that have been studied in mathematics education research. It defines transition as a process of change, and describes learning in an educational context as a transition process. The book focuses on research in the area of mathematics education, and starts out with a literature review, describing the epistemological, cognitive, institutional and ... Read more

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  • Consciousness and Moral Status

    by Joshua Shepherd ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Philosophy
    It seems obvious that phenomenally conscious experience is something of great value, and that this value maps onto a range of important ethical issues. For example, claims about the value of life for those in Permanent Vegetative State (PVS); debates about treatment and study of disorders of consciousness; controversies about end-of-life care for those with advanced dementia; and arguments about ... Read more

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  • Lost in Dialogue

    Anthropology, Psychopathology, and Care

    by Giovanni Stanghellini ...
    Series series International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
    The field of psychiatry has long struggled with developing models of practice; most underemphasize the interpersonal aspects of clinical practice. This essay is unique in putting intersubjectivity front and center. It is an attempt to provide a clinical method to re-establish the fragile dialogue of the soul with oneself and with others. Throughout, the book builds on the assumption that to be ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Developing Advanced Literacy in First and Second Languages

    Meaning With Power

    Edited by Mary J. Schleppegrell, M. Cecilia Colombi ...
    This book addresses the linguistic challenges faced by diverse populations of students at the secondary and post-secondary levels as they engage in academic tasks requiring advanced levels of reading and writing. Learning to use language in ways that meet academic expectations is a challenge for students who have had little exposure and opportunity to use such language outside of school. Although ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject

    Historical Studies in Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis

    by John L. Roberts ...
    Recent scholarship has inquired into the socio-historical, discursive genesis of trauma. Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject, however, seeks what has not been actualized in trauma studies – that is, how the necessity and unassailable intensity of trauma is fastened to its historical emergence. We must ask not only what trauma means for the individual person’s biography, but also what it ... Read more

    $60.99 USD