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153 produkter
Animal Nutrition
Av Peter McDonald, J.F.D. Greenhalgh m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
1057 kr
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The latest edition of Animal Nutrition has been updated thoroughly to provide a clear and comprehensive introduction to the science and practice of animal nutrition. This classic, market-leading text is a trusted resource for undergraduates studying Animal Science, Veterinary Science, Agriculture, …
Making a Difference in Theory
The theory question in education and the education question in theory
Av Gert Biesta, Julie Allan m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
872 kr
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Making a Difference in Theory brings together original work from an international group of authors on the roles of theory in educational research and practice. The book discusses the different roles theory plays, can play and should play, both from a historical perspective and in light of …
Understanding Capitalism
Competition, Command, and Change
Av Samuel Bowles, Frank Roosevelt m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
1834 kr
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Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change, Fourth Edition, is an introduction to economics that explains how capitalism works, why it sometimes fails, and how it undergoes and brings about change. It discusses both the conventional economic model and the role of power in economic …
Revisiting Actor-Network Theory in Education
Av Tara Fenwick, Richard Edwards
Häftad, 2019
716 kr
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Actor-network theory (ANT) is enjoying a notable surge of interest in educational research. New directions and questions are emerging along with new empirical approaches, as educators bring unique sensibilities and commitments to the ongoing debates and reconfigurations that characterise …
Culture and Processes of Adult Learning
Av Richard Edwards, Ann Hanson m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
787 kr
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The authors provide a variety of perspectives on the conceptualisation of adult learning, drawing on sociology, psychology, adult education and applied research into how adults experience learning. Bringing together a number of major contributions to current debates about what learning during …
Adult Learners, Education and Training
Av Richard Edwards, Sandy Sieminski m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
787 kr
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In recent years, economic and demographic changes have brought into question the adequacy of initial education programmes for continuous employment. While the primary focus of debate has been on creating structures of continuous education and training linked to the economic needs of Britain, …
Postmodernism and Education
Different Voices, Different Worlds
Av Richard Edwards, Robin Usher
Inbunden, 1994
2987 kr
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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 …
Postmodernism and Education
Different Voices, Different Worlds
Av Richard Edwards, Robin Usher
Häftad, 1994
872 kr
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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 …
Boundaries of Adult Learning
Av Richard Edwards, Ann Hanson m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
801 kr
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Until relatively recently, adult learning in the UK was largely recognised as being situated mainly within the LEA adult education centre, university extra-mural departments and the WEA. However, this picture has changed. The major change has been a shift from 'education' to 'learning' as the key …
Learning Society: Challenges and Trends
Av Richard Edwards, Peter Raggatt m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
532 kr
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The 'learning society' is not a new idea, although its popularity has grown in recent years with the suggestion that lifelong learning is a condition for economic competitiveness in a global economy, replacing the earlier conception of it as a condition for democratic citizenship.This reader, …
Changing Places?
Flexibility, Lifelong Learning and a Learning Society
Inbunden, 1997
2987 kr
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Flexibility has become a central concept in much policy and academic debate. Individuals, organizations and societies are all required to become more flexible so that they can participate in the ongoing processes of change involved in lifelong learning.This book explores how the notion of a …
Changing Places?
Flexibility, Lifelong Learning and a Learning Society
Häftad, 1997
872 kr
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Flexibility has become a central concept in much policy and academic debate. Individuals, organizations and societies are all required to become more flexible so that they can participate in the ongoing processes of change involved in lifelong learning.This book explores how the notion of a …
Telling Tales
Perspectives on Guidance and Counselling in Learning
Av Richard Edwards, Roger Harrison m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
475 kr
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Guidance and counselling in the context of learning is an area that is growing rapidly and attracting a lot of interest within the field of education. This reader presents a range of different perspectives - those of the user, practitioner, professional, manager, policy-maker and academic. By …
Taking Issue
Debates in Guidance and Counselling in Learning
Av Megan Crawford, Richard Edwards m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
787 kr
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The partner to Telling Tales, this reader looks at a range of perspectives on a number of key issues emerging from the area of guidance and counselling in education. Questions of ethics, equality and impartiality and their relationship to guidance and counselling in the context of learning are …
Supporting Lifelong Learning
Volume II: Organising Learning
Av Marion Cartwright, Richard Edwards m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
532 kr
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This Reader examines the ways in which learning is organized in a diverse range of lifelong learning environments. If we are to harness the full potential of this learning, the structures of organizations and providers will have to change.The book also examines the shift away from the perception of …
Supporting Lifelong Learning
Volume III: Making Policy Work
Av Richard Edwards, Nod Miller m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1483 kr
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This volume of the Open University Reader for Supporting Lifelong Learning looks at policy development in lifelong learning at local, regional, national and supra-national levels. Using an international team of contributors, it explores and examines the policy context for lifelong learning, the …
Supporting Lifelong Learning
Volume III: Making Policy Work
Av Richard Edwards, Nod Miller m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
688 kr
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This volume of the Open University Reader for Supporting Lifelong Learning looks at policy development in lifelong learning at local, regional, national and supra-national levels. Using an international team of contributors, it explores and examines the policy context for lifelong learning, the …
Rhetoric and Educational Discourse
Persuasive Texts
Av Richard Edwards, Katherine Nicoll m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
2448 kr
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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 …
Rhetoric and Educational Discourse
Persuasive Texts
Av Richard Edwards, Katherine Nicoll m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
787 kr
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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 …
Learning Outside the Academy
International Research Perspectives on Lifelong Learning
Av Richard Edwards, Jim Gallacher m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
2667 kr
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This book weaves together different strands of research in the area of lifelong learning that concentrates particularly on learning in alternative settings and ways, such experiential learning and informal and community learning. Drawing upon international research, the book examines how these …
History of Management Accounting
The British Experience
Av Richard Edwards, Trevor Boyns
Inbunden, 2012
2586 kr
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There is growing interest in the history of accounting amongst both accounting practitioners and accounting academics. This interest developed steadily from about 1970 and really ‘took off’ in the 1990s. However, there is a lack of texts dealing with major aspects of accounting history that can be …
Globalisation & Pedagogy
Space, Place and Identity
Av Richard Edwards, Robin Usher
Inbunden, 2007
3065 kr
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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 & Pedagogy
Space, Place and Identity
Av Richard Edwards, Robin Usher
Häftad, 2007
785 kr
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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 …
Rethinking Contexts for Learning and Teaching
Communities, Activites and Networks
Av Richard Edwards, Gert Biesta m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2441 kr
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Now that learning is seen as lifelong and lifewide, what specifically makes a learning context? What are the resultant consequences for teaching practices when working in specific contexts? Drawing upon a variety of academic disciplines, Rethinking Contexts for Learning and Teaching explores some …
Rethinking Contexts for Learning and Teaching
Communities, Activites and Networks
Av Richard Edwards, Gert Biesta m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
799 kr
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Now that learning is seen as lifelong and lifewide, what specifically makes a learning context? What are the resultant consequences for teaching practices when working in specific contexts? Drawing upon a variety of academic disciplines, Rethinking Contexts for Learning and Teaching explores some …
Improving Learning in College
Rethinking Literacies Across the Curriculum
Av Roz Ivanic, Richard Edwards m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2441 kr
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What's the problem with literacy at college? How might everyday literacy be harnessed for educational ends?Based on the first major study of literacy practices in colleges in the UK, this book explores the reading and writing associated with learning subjects across the college curriculum. It …
Improving Learning in College
Rethinking Literacies Across the Curriculum
Av Roz Ivanic, Richard Edwards m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
714 kr
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What's the problem with literacy at college? How might everyday literacy be harnessed for educational ends?Based on the first major study of literacy practices in colleges in the UK, this book explores the reading and writing associated with learning subjects across the college curriculum. It …
Actor-Network Theory in Education
Av Tara Fenwick, Richard Edwards
Inbunden, 2010
2073 kr
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Actor-Network Theory (ANT) has enjoyed wide uptake in the social sciences in the past three decades, particularly in science and technology studies, and is increasingly attracting the attention of educational researchers. ANT studies bring to the fore the material – objects of all kinds – and …
Actor-Network Theory in Education
Av Tara Fenwick, Richard Edwards
Häftad, 2010
601 kr
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Actor-Network Theory (ANT) has enjoyed wide uptake in the social sciences in the past three decades, particularly in science and technology studies, and is increasingly attracting the attention of educational researchers. ANT studies bring to the fore the material – objects of all kinds – and …
Emerging Approaches to Educational Research
Tracing the Socio-Material
Av Tara Fenwick, Richard Edwards m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
2066 kr
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The last fifteen years have seen much conceptual and methodological innovation in research on education and learning across the lifecourse, bringing both fresh insights and new dilemmas. This innovation was initially fuelled by the growing influence of conceptual framings often named as either …
