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  • Space, Curriculum, and Learning

    Edited by Richard Edwards, Robin Usher ...
    Series series International Perspectives on Curriculum
    In recent years there has been increasing interest in issues of space and spatiality in the social sciences and humanities generally, if less so in the study of education. This relative lack of interest is surprising given the importance of space and time in the organization of teaching, learning and research. For instance, the timetable and project timeline are central to the organization of ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Adult Education as Theory, Practice and Research

    The Captive Triangle

    by Robin Usher, Ian Bryant ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    The authors argue that the aim of research should be to improve practice through a process of critical reflection. Focusing clearly on the everyday concerns and problems of practitioners, they emphasize the importance of practical knowledge. Their definition of ‘practice’ is wide, and includes the generation of theory and the doing of research as well as front-line teaching. They show how notions ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Rhetoric and Educational Discourse

    Persuasive Texts

    by Richard Edwards, Katherine Nicoll, Nicky Solomon, Robin Usher ...
    Educational policy is often dismissed as simply rhetoric and a collection of half truths. However, this is to underestimate the power of rhetoric and the ways in which rhetorical strategies are integral to persuasive acts. Through a series of illustrative chapters, this book argues that rather than something to be dismissed, rhetorical analysis offers a rich and deep arena in which to explore and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Understanding Social Research

    Perspectives on Methodology and Practice

    by George McKenzie, Jane Powell, Robin Usher ...
    In 1991 the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) published "Postgraduate Taining Guidelines". Throughout the document emphasis is placed on the need for universities to make postgraduate research students aware of the methodological issues that affect their work.; This text explores the relationship between knowledge, methodology and research practice across the broad spectrum of the social ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Understanding Educational Research

    Edited by David Scott, Robin Usher ...
    This book explores educational research in terms of the relationship between epistemology, methodology and practice. Divided into two sections, the first examines the frameworks which underpin the methods educational researchers use. The second looks at a broad spectrum of approaches, including feminist approaches, action research, ethnography and biographical research. The issues covered are ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Postmodernism and Education

    Different Voices, Different Worlds

    by Richard Edwards, Robin Usher ...
    In this book, the authors explore and clarify the nature of postmodernism and provide a detailed introduction to key writers in the field such as Lacan Derrida Foucault Lyotard They examine the impact of this thinking upon contemporary theory and practice of education, concentrating particularly upon how postmodernist ideas challenge existing concepts, structures and hierarchies. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Adult Education and the Postmodern Challenge

    Learning Beyond the Limits

    by Ian Bryant, Rennie Johnston, Robin Usher ...
    This book offers some suggestions as to ways forward from this dilemma. Drawing on the new intellectual frameworks of critical pedagogy, feminism and postmodernism and their impact upon educational theory, practice and research, the book focuses on the changing contexts of adult education. By building on the notion of going beyond the limits of certain current adult education orthodoxies, the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Globalisation & Pedagogy

    Space, Place and Identity

    by Richard Edwards, Robin Usher ...
    With different pedagogic practices come different ways of examining them and fresh understandings of their implications and assumptions. It is the examination of these changes and developments that is the subject of this book.The authors examine a number of questions posed by the rapid march of globalisation, incuding:What is the role of the teacher, and how do we teach in the context of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Situated Ethics in Educational Research

    Edited by Helen Simons, Robin Usher ...
    Ethics has traditionally been seen as a set of general principles which can be applied in a range of situations. This book argues that in fact ethical principles must be shaped within different research practices and hence take on different significances according to varying research situations. The book develops the notion of situated ethics and explores how ethical issues are practically handled ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Theory and Methods in Social Research

    Edited by Professor Bridget Somekh, Dr Cathy Lewin ...
    This new edition provides a scholarly and readable introduction to all the key qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and methods, enabling postgraduate and masters-level students and new researchers to reflect on which ones suit their needs and to receive guidance on how to find out more.With chapters written by experienced research practitioners, this second edition has been ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Becoming Critical

    Education Knowledge and Action Research

    by Wilfred Carr, Stephen Kemmis ...
    First published in 1986. There is now a growing movement to extend the professionalism of teachers by providing them with greater opportunities to engage in curriculum theorizing and educational research. The purpose of this book is to offer a rationale by outlining a philosophical justification for the view that teachers have a special role as researchers and that the most plausible way to ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Teaching and Researching: Language and Culture

    by Joan Kelly Hall ...
    Series series Applied Linguistics in Action
    Language and culture are concepts increasingly found at the heart of developments in applied linguistics and related fields. Taken together, they can provide interesting and useful insights into the nature of language acquisition and expression. In this volume, Joan Kelly Hall gives a perspective on the nature of language and culture looking at how the use of language in real-world situations ... Read more

    $66.99 USD