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1. Making a Difference in Theory

   The theory question in education and the education question in theory

   Edited by Gert Biesta, Julie Allan, Richard Edwards

   Series: Theorizing Education

   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...

   To Be Published July 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Italy's Foreign Policy in the 21st Century

   A Contested Nature?

   Edited by Ludovica Marchi, Richard Whitman, Geoffrey Edwards

   Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

   Italy’s foreign policy has often been dismissed for punching below its weight, for being too idiosyncratic and inconsistent. This book offers new insights into the position attained by Italy in the contemporary world. It explores how the country has sought to take advantage of the passage from a...

   To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. A History of Management Accounting

   The British Experience

   By Richard Edwards, Trevor Boyns

   Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

   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...

   Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
4. Emerging Approaches to Educational Research

   Tracing the Socio-Material

   By Tara Fenwick, Richard Edwards, Peter Sawchuk

   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...

   Published July 14th 2011 by Routledge
5. Actor-Network Theory in Education

   By Tara Fenwick, Richard Edwards

   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 –...

   Published May 27th 2010 by Routledge
6. Improving Learning in College

   Rethinking Literacies Across the Curriculum

   By Roz Ivanic, Richard Edwards, David Barton, Marilyn Martin-Jones, Zoe Fowler, Buddug Hughes, Greg Mannion, Kate Miller, Candice Satchwell, June Smith

   Series: Improving Learning

   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...

   Published February 15th 2009 by Routledge
7. Rethinking Contexts for Learning and Teaching

   Communities, Activites and Networks

   Edited by Richard Edwards, Gert Biesta, Mary Thorpe

   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...

   Published February 5th 2009 by Routledge
8. The Routledge Companion to Accounting History

   Edited by John Richard Edwards, Stephen P. Walker

   Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

   The Routledge Companion to Accounting History shows how the seemingly innocuous practice of accounting has pervaded human existence in fascinating ways at numerous times and places; from ancient civilisations to the modern day, and from the personal to the political. Placing the history of...

   Published July 20th 2008 by Routledge
9. Globalisation & Pedagogy

   Space, Place and Identity, 2nd Edition

   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...

   Published August 8th 2007 by Routledge
10. Learning Outside the Academy

    International Research Perspectives on Lifelong Learning

    Edited by Richard Edwards, Jim Gallacher, Susan Whittaker

    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...

    Published April 26th 2006 by Routledge