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 of the different means of understanding teaching and learning, both in and across contexts, the issues they raise and their implications for pedagogy and research. It specifically addresses
What constitutes a context for learning?
How do we engage the...
Now that learning is seen as lifelong and lifewide, what specifically makes a learning context? What are the resultant consequences for teaching pr...
This text provides a comprehensive survey of literature on costing and management accounting. It covers the development of British accounting from the late 19th century to recent years, and offers a balanced review of changing theories and practices.
This text provides a comprehensive survey of literature on costing and management accounting. It covers the development of British accounting from the...
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 de-centre the human and the social in educational issues. ANT sensibilities are interested in the ways human and non-human elements become interwoven. Since its first introduction, actor-network theory has undergone significant shifts and evolutions and as a result, it is not considered to be a single...
Actor-Network Theory (ANT) has enjoyed wide uptake in the social sciences in the past three decades, particularly in science and technology studies...
These two volumes collect some of the principal articles that have contributed to the renewal and development of radical political economy during the past generation. Radical Political Economy draws upon Marxian, institutional and Keynesian perspectives to construct a new and comprehensive analysis of modern capitalism, seeking to integrate the horizontal (competition), vertical (command), and time (change) dimensions of economic and other social relations.
These two volumes collect some of the principal articles that have contributed to the renewal and development of radical political economy during the ...
Researching Education Through Actor-Network Theory offers a new take on educational research, demonstrating the ways in which actor-network theory can expand the understanding of educational change.
An international collaboration exploring diverse manifestations of educational change
Illustrates the impact of actor-network theory on educational research
Positions education as a key area where actor-network theory can add value, as it has been shown to do in other social sciences
A valuable resource for anyone interested in the sociology and...
Researching Education Through Actor-Network Theory offers a new take on educational research, demonstrating the ways in which actor-network the...
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 explored. The book also examines the trend towards group work and the role of technology in creating strategies for guidance. Written for a new module on the Open Universitys MA in Education.
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 counsellin...
