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11. 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...

    Published June 2nd 2004 by Routledge
12. Supporting Lifelong Learning

    Volume III: Making Policy Work

    Edited by Richard Edwards, Nod Miller, Nick Small, Alan Tait

    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...

    Published November 14th 2001 by Routledge
13. Supporting Lifelong Learning

    Volume II: Organising Learning

    Edited by Marion Cartwright, Richard Edwards, Fiona Reeve

    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...

    Published November 14th 2001 by Routledge
14. Globalisation & Pedegogy

    By Richard Edwards, Robin Usher

    Published September 13th 2001 by Routledge
15. The History of Accounting

    Critical Perspectives on Business and Management

    Edited by John Richard Edwards

    Series: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management

    The History of Accounting has been constructed from 68 items previously published between 1971 and 1998, representing the key works of 72 leading authors. The set is designed for a number of applications which include: a range of readings suitable for graduate and postgraduate courses on accounting...

    Published March 22nd 2000 by Routledge
16. Globalisation & Pedagogy

    Space, Place and Identity

    By Richard Edwards, Robin Usher

    Published March 8th 2000 by Routledge
17. Taking Issue

    Debates in Guidance and Counselling in Learning

    Edited by Megan Crawford, Richard Edwards, Lesley Kidd

    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...

    Published October 21st 1998 by Routledge
18. Telling Tales

    Perspectives on Guidance and Counselling in Learning

    Edited by Richard Edwards, Roger Harrison, Alan Tait

    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...

    Published October 14th 1998 by Routledge
19. Changing Places?

    Flexibility, Lifelong Learning and a Learning Society

    By Richard Edwards

    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...

    Published July 9th 1997 by Routledge
20. Boundaries of Adult Learning

    Edited by Richard Edwards, Ann Hanson, Peter Raggatt

    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...

    Published November 29th 1995 by Routledge