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Emerging Approaches to Educational Research
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 …
Improving Learning in College
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 …
Adult Learners, Education and Training
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 …
Actor-Network Theory in Education
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 Learning Society: Challenges and Trends
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 …
The History of Accounting
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 …
A History of Management Accounting
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 …
Learning Outside the Academy
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 …
Rhetoric and Educational Discourse
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 …
Boundaries of Adult Learning
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 …
Postmodernism and Education
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 …
Changing Places?
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 …