Science and Society in Ghana

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Total Pages : 128 pages
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Book Synopsis Science and Society in Ghana by : E. Laing

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Changing Perspectives on the Social Sciences in Ghana

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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401787158
Total Pages : 347 pages
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Book Synopsis Changing Perspectives on the Social Sciences in Ghana by : Samuel Agyei-Mensah

Download or read book Changing Perspectives on the Social Sciences in Ghana written by Samuel Agyei-Mensah and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first compilation of its kind that brings together discussions of the evolution of scholarship in different branches of the Social Sciences. It presents a comprehensive multi-disciplinary text exploring the changing dynamics of the Social Sciences in Ghana, offering a broader perspective from which to view the evolution, theory, methods, substance and relevance of each of the Social Science disciplines and their multiple interfaces. The introduction and the conclusion are devoted to the theoretical, comparative and empirical debate over the Social Sciences from historical and analytical perspectives. Written by acknowledged experts, the 15 chapters span the following disciplines: Archaeology and Heritage Studies; History; Geography; Psychology; Sociology and Anthropology; Social Work; Economics; Political Science; International Affairs; Information Studies; Communication Studies; African Studies; Development Studies; Women’s and Gender Studies and Adult and Continuing Education. Changing Perspectives on the Social Sciences in Ghana offers sophisticated perspectives for comparing and appreciating the synergies, differences, trends and nuances among and between the Social Science disciplines in Ghana, in a holistic and scholarly manner.

Science and Society in Southern Africa

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719058127
Total Pages : 264 pages
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Book Synopsis Science and Society in Southern Africa by : Saul Dubow

Download or read book Science and Society in Southern Africa written by Saul Dubow and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, dealing with case studies drawn from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Mauritius, examines the relationship between scientific claims and practices on the one hand and the exercise of colonial power on the other. It challenges conventional views that portray science as a detached mode of reasoning with the capacity to confer benefits in a more or less even-handed manner. That science has the potential to further the collective good is not fundamentally at issue, but science can also be seen as complicit in processes of colonial domination.

Broader Impacts of Science on Society

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108421725
Total Pages : 321 pages
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Book Synopsis Broader Impacts of Science on Society by : Bruce J. MacFadden

Download or read book Broader Impacts of Science on Society written by Bruce J. MacFadden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invaluable guidance on how scientists can communicate the societal benefits of their work to the public and funding agencies. This will help scientists submit proposals to the US National Science Foundation and other funding agencies with a 'Broader Impacts' section, as well as helping to develop successful wider outreach activities.

Science Literacy

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Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309447569
Total Pages : 167 pages
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Book Synopsis Science Literacy by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Download or read book Science Literacy written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science is a way of knowing about the world. At once a process, a product, and an institution, science enables people to both engage in the construction of new knowledge as well as use information to achieve desired ends. Access to scienceâ€"whether using knowledge or creating itâ€"necessitates some level of familiarity with the enterprise and practice of science: we refer to this as science literacy. Science literacy is desirable not only for individuals, but also for the health and well- being of communities and society. More than just basic knowledge of science facts, contemporary definitions of science literacy have expanded to include understandings of scientific processes and practices, familiarity with how science and scientists work, a capacity to weigh and evaluate the products of science, and an ability to engage in civic decisions about the value of science. Although science literacy has traditionally been seen as the responsibility of individuals, individuals are nested within communities that are nested within societiesâ€"and, as a result, individual science literacy is limited or enhanced by the circumstances of that nesting. Science Literacy studies the role of science literacy in public support of science. This report synthesizes the available research literature on science literacy, makes recommendations on the need to improve the understanding of science and scientific research in the United States, and considers the relationship between scientific literacy and support for and use of science and research.

The Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Total Pages : 220 pages
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Book Synopsis The Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences by : Letitia Eva Obeng

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Science Research and Education in Africa

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443879576
Total Pages : 388 pages
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Book Synopsis Science Research and Education in Africa by : Alain L. Fymat

Download or read book Science Research and Education in Africa written by Alain L. Fymat and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For various economic and political reasons, many African countries lag behind the rest of the industrialised world in scientific and medical research and development. However, the presence of intellectual islands scattered across the continent gives hope that this is only a transient situation on the cusp of undergoing a profound and beneficial change. For this reason, the Society for the Advancement of Science in Africa was established to catalyse and contribute to this needed evolution. Its mission is to contribute to Africa’s economic advancement and sustainability through science research, education and innovation. This book provides a selection of papers from the Advancement of Science in Africa’s third annual conference. The conference was held under the overarching theme of ‘science research and education in Africa’, with several important sub-themes, including but not limited to: improving health research and disease surveillance education; epidemic diseases with high mortality; promoting women’s interest in science careers; fostering youth development with science education. The collection illustrates how although the chapter contributors come from various countries and universities, representing their own academic research, they all share a common interest in advancing science research and education in Africa.

Contemporary Issues in African Sciences and Science Education

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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 946091702X
Total Pages : 238 pages
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Book Synopsis Contemporary Issues in African Sciences and Science Education by : Akwasi Asabere-Ameyaw

Download or read book Contemporary Issues in African Sciences and Science Education written by Akwasi Asabere-Ameyaw and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this careful articulation of science, the editors provide an intellectual marriage of Indigenous science and science education in the African context as a way of revising schooling and education. They define science broadly to include both the science of the natural/physical/biological and the ‘science of the social’. It is noted that the current policy direction of African education continues to be a subject of intense intellectual discussion. Science education is very much at the heart of much current debates about reforming African schooling. Among the ways to counter-vision contemporary African education this book points to how we promote Indigenous science education to improve upon African science and technology development in general. The book also notes a long-standing push to re-examine local cultural resource knowings in order to appreciate and understand the nature, content and context of Indigenous knowledge science as a starting foundation for promoting African science and technology studies in general. It is argued that these interests and concerns are not mutually exclusive of each other but as a matter of fact interwoven and interdependent. The breadth of coverage of the collection reflect papers in science, Indigeneity, identity and knowledge production and the possibilities of creating a truly African-centred education. It is argued that such extensive coverage will engage and excite readers on the path of what has been termed ‘African educational recovery’. While the book is careful in avoiding stale debates about the ‘Eurocentricity of Western scientific knowledge’ and the positing of ‘Eurocentric science’ as the only science worthy of engagement, it nonetheless caution against constructing a binary between Indigenous/local science and knowledges and Western ‘scientific’ knowledge. After all, Western scientific knowledge is itself a form of local knowledge, born out of a particular social and historical context. Engaging science in a more global context will bring to the fore critical questions of how we create spaces for the study of Indigenous science knowledge in our schools. How is Indigenous science to be read, understood and theorized? And, how do educators gather/collect and interpret Indigenous science knowledges for the purposes of teaching young learners. These are critical questions for contemporary African education?

Social Science Research in Ghana

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Total Pages : 114 pages
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Book Synopsis Social Science Research in Ghana by : Kodwo Ewusi

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Beyond the Market

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Total Pages : 114 pages
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Book Synopsis Beyond the Market by : Michael Gibbons

Download or read book Beyond the Market written by Michael Gibbons and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Science in Society

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442604484
Total Pages : 842 pages
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Book Synopsis A History of Science in Society by : Lesley Cormack

Download or read book A History of Science in Society written by Lesley Cormack and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Science in Society is a concise overview that introduces complex ideas in a non-technical fashion. Andrew Ede and Lesley B. Cormack trace the history of science through its continually changing place in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful. In this edition, the authors examine the robust intellectual exchange between East and West and provide new discussions of two women in science: Maria Merian and Maria Winkelmann. A chapter on the relationship between science and war has been added as well as a section on climate change. The further readings section has been updated to reflect recent contributions to the field. Other new features include timelines at the end of each chapter, 70 upgraded illustrations, and new maps of Renaissance Europe, Captain James Cook's voyages, the 2nd voyage of the Beagle, and the main war front during World War I.

Changing Social Structure in Ghana

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429950772
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Changing Social Structure in Ghana by : Jack Goody

Download or read book Changing Social Structure in Ghana written by Jack Goody and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1975, this book presents the results of research into social change in Ghana. The book looks in detail at the problems of particular sub-groups and sectors in one single nation and they show that the field-worker with a wide comparative background in the range of pre-industrial societies has a positive role to play in contemporary social science.

Society and Bureaucracy in Contemporary Ghana

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Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520370384
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Book Synopsis Society and Bureaucracy in Contemporary Ghana by : Robert M. Price

Download or read book Society and Bureaucracy in Contemporary Ghana written by Robert M. Price and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

Science in Action

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674792913
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Book Synopsis Science in Action by : Bruno Latour

Download or read book Science in Action written by Bruno Latour and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From weaker to stronger rhetoric : literature - Laboratories - From weak points to strongholds : machines - Insiders out - From short to longer networks : tribunals of reason - Centres of calculation.

Changing Social Structure in Ghana

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Publisher : London : International African Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Changing Social Structure in Ghana by : Jack Goody

Download or read book Changing Social Structure in Ghana written by Jack Goody and published by London : International African Institute. This book was released on 1975 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents the results of research into social change in Ghana. Each of the thirteen essays deals with some aspect of the changing situation, not necessarily today's change, but observed change that is relevant to what is happening today. It thus continues the interest of social scientists in the situation that lies before their eyes rather than in hypothetical reconstructions of societies that may have existed in pre-colonial times. This book adopts a different approach from what is often considered the main role of anthropology today, looking in detail at the problems of particular sub-groups and sectors in one single new nation, that of Ghana. These studies try to show that the field-worker with a wide comparative background in the range of pre-industrial societies has a positive role to play in contemporary social science. The study of new nations can provide a testing ground for theory and at the same time help to break down the barriers between disciplines."--Page 4 de la couverture.

Science, Society and Power

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521828741
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (287 download)

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Book Synopsis Science, Society and Power by : James Fairhead

Download or read book Science, Society and Power written by James Fairhead and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings science to the heart of debates about globalization by exploring the globalization of science and its contrasting effects in Guinea (one of the world's poorest countries) and Trinidad (a more prosperous, industrialized and urbanized island). It focuses on environment, forestry and conservation, sciences that are central to these countries and involve resources that many depend upon for their livelihoods. Taking a unique ethnographic approach drawn from anthropology, development and science studies, the work will appeal to students and researchers across the social sciences, as well as policy-makers and practitioners.

Impact of Science on Society

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Total Pages : 394 pages
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Download or read book Impact of Science on Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: