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Critical Realism in the Social Sciences
Critical realism is a naturalist epistemology, one that is applicable across the sciences and the social sciences. Following the introduction in...
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Continuing Bernstein: Social Realist Sociology of Education
This chapter introduces social realism as a perspective that has drawn upon Bernstein’s thinking about knowledge and connected it with...
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How Might Critical Realism Extend Our Understanding of Assessment?
Critical realism is an emergent school of thought. It has evolved through a number of phases since the 1970s, gaining followers and also critics...
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Globalization, Political Realism, and the Agent-Exclusion Problem
It is argued that political realists have framed internationalized relations by way of an implicit appeal to what is called the ‘agent-exclusion...
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Agential Realism and Response-Able Education Science
This chapter engages with different paradigms in science. It explains why knowing them is necessary for education research and for understanding...
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Is a Preference for Realism Really Naive After All? A Cognitive Model of Learning with Realistic Visualizations
The use of realistic visualizations has gained considerable interest due to the proliferation of virtual reality equipment. This review is concerned...
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Critical Realism as an Underpinning Philosophy
This chapter defines and explains the terms ontology and epistemology, discusses the development of the scientific method and the nature of...
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Teaching SSIs: An Epistemology Based on Social Justice Through the Meta Theory of Critical Realism
Teaching socioscientific issues presupposes integrating normative concepts with descriptive facts. Historically this has proved problematic firstly...
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Science Education and Social Justice: A Possible Dream
Ralph Levinson. Contemporary school science education is instrumental, its rationale interwoven in neoliberal discourse. Given the problems schools...
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Science Education Towards Social and Ecological Justice Provocations and Conversations
This book consists of stories of struggles in science education presented by a network of science educators working in Australia, Brazil, Canada,...
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Social Justice and Social Work
Social work has long been associated with social justice. In this chapter we explore the relationship between the two with a view to clarifying the...
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What Does Social Realism Have to Offer for Research on Teacher Identity in Mathematics Education?
Research that focuses on teacher identity is gaining traction as researchers argue that teachers mediate more than mathematical knowledge and skills...
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Conceptualising Graduate Outcomes with Critical Realism
Graduate outcomes are becoming increasingly prominent within higher education (HE) policy, driven by national governments keen to demonstrate ‘value...
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Social Inclusion: When ‘Social Media’ Invades the Life World
Young people who receive special educational measures in upper secondary school are registered to have different kinds of problems of a mental,...
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Systems Theory and Social Work
This chapter discusses the theorising of social work in the field of systems theory. In particular, it takes Niklas Luhmann’s biopsychosocial systems...
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Realist Analysis
Realism is an ontology, or theory of the nature of the world. As (Nochlin in Realism. Penguin, 1971) illustrated, when Plato set down the philosophy...
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Social Justice and Social Work
Social work has long been associated with social justice. In this chapter we explore the relationship between the two with a view to clarifying the...
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Social support in schools and related outcomes for LGBTQ youth: a sco** review
Recent research has increasingly focused on positive factors and supports for LGBTQ youth. This sco** review explores existing social support for...
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Development of a digital training for social and emotional competences for medical assistants in vocational education and training in Germany
This paper describes a digital training for social and emotional competences for prospective medical assistants (MAs) in Germany. Social and...
