Screen LibraryFrom the Local to the Global : Theories and Key Issues in Global Justice /
" Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr. Be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi Thought without practice is blind; practice without thought is empty. Kwame Nkrumah These quotes aptly capture the spirit, the essence, and reach of this boo...
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SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers,
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| Publisher Address: | Rotterdam : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-839-6 |
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" Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr. Be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi Thought without practice is blind; practice without thought is empty. Kwame Nkrumah These quotes aptly capture the spirit, the essence, and reach of this book. From the Local to the Global: Theories and Key Issues in Global Social Justice explores and explains the relationships between social justice as it is conceived, constructed, understood and implemented locally and globally. It does so by examining social justice from a theoretical and substantive pe |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XX, 196 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789463008396 |
| Index Number: | L1 |
| CLC: | G40 |
| Contents: | Preface -- Arrangement of This Book -- Introduction -- Knowledge, Knowing, and Social Justice -- Knowledge, Power, and Powerlessness.-Types of Knowledge -- Knowing: Knowledge Acquisition -- Sources of Knowledge -- Ways of Knowing; What Is Indigenous Knowledge? -- Functions of IK -- Who Are the Indigenous People? -- Western System of Knowledge.-Common Grounds -- What Is Critical Thinking? Why Do We Need It?.-Defining Critical Thinking -- Characteristics of Critical Thinking.-Characteristics of the Critical Thinker -- Critical Sociological Thinking -- Critical Theory and Critical Sociology -- |