LIBROS DEL AUTOR: robin usher

13 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: robin usher

  • Adult Education as Theory, Practice and Research
    Ian Bryant / Robin Usher
    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. Th...
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    97,70 €

  • Protestant Dublin, 1660-1760
    Robin Usher
    This innovative urban history of Dublin explores the symbols and spaces of the Irish capital between the Restoration in 1660 and the advent of neoclassical public architecture in the 1770s. The meanings ascribed to statues, churches, houses, and public buildings are traced in detail, using a wide range of visual and written sources. ...
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    145,03 €

  • Lifelong Learning - Signs, Discourses, Practices
    Richard Edwards / Robin Usher
    EDITORIAL BY SERIES EDITORS.- FOREWORD.- 1. SETTING THE SCENE.- 2. SIGNING THE SOCIAL.- 3. LIFELONG LEARNING AS A SEMIOTIC PROCESS.- 4. THE LANGUAGE GAMES OF LIFELONG LEARNING.- 5. SIGNING POWER IN LIFELONG LEARNING.- 6. FASHIONING POLITICAL SPACES.- 7. MOBILISING THE LIFELONG LEARNER.- 8. CONNECTING LIFELONG LEARNING.- 9. LIFELONG LEARNING AS TECHNIQUE, AND....- 10. LINES OF F...
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    195,84 €

  • Globalisation & Pedagogy
    Richard Edwards / Robin Usher
    The second edition of this important book has been fully updated and extended to take account of developments in technology, pedagogy and practice, in particular the growth of distance and e-learning. ...
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    342,67 €

  • Globalisation & Pedagogy
    Richard Edwards / Robin Usher
    The second edition of this important book has been fully updated and extended to take account of developments in technology, pedagogy and practice, in particular the growth of distance and e-learning. ...
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    92,41 €

  • Lifelong Learning - Signs, Discourses, Practices
    Richard Edwards / Robin Usher
    This text explores the different ways in which the various social practices in which people participate becomes signed as learning, how and why that occurs and with what consequences. It takes seriously the linguistic turn in social theory to draw upon semiotics and poststructuralism through which to explore the significance of lifelong learning as an emerging discourse in educ...
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    133,01 €

  • Researching Education
    David Scott / Robin Usher
    This volume is a study of the theory and practice of researching education. It examines the philosophical, historical, political and social contexts of researching and the implications of these for the collection and analysis of data. The authors argue that power is ever present in the construction of research texts and this is inevitable, as research imposes a closure of the w...
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    175,51 €

  • Understanding Social Research
    George McKenzie / Jane Powell / Robin Usher
    This text explores the relationship between knowledge, methodology and research practice across the broad spectrum of the social sciences. It examines socio-cultural contexts of social research and relates them to contemporary shifts in focus such ...
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    94,87 €

  • Understanding Social Research
    George McKenzie / Jane Powell / Robin Usher
    This text explores the relationship between knowledge, methodology and research practice across the broad spectrum of the social sciences. It examines socio-cultural contexts of social research and relates them to contemporary shifts in focus such ...
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    382,98 €

  • Adult Education and the Postmodern Challenge
    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 o...
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    301,77 €

  • Adult Education and the Postmodern Challenge
    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 o...
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    92,10 €

  • Postmodernism and Education
    Richard Edwards / Robin Usher
    This book shows the impact of postmodernism upon the theory and practice of education and how it challenges the existing concepts, structures and hierarchies. ...
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    355,92 €

  • Postmodernism and Education
    Richard Edwards / Robin Usher
    This book shows the impact of postmodernism upon the theory and practice of education and how it challenges the existing concepts, structures and hierarchies. ...
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    102,97 €