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Developing Narrative Theory
Life Histories and Personal Representation
We live in an age of narrative: life stories are a crucial ingredient in what makes us human and, in turn, what kind of human they make us. In recent years, narrative analysis has grown and is used across many areas of research. Interest in this rapidly developing approach now requires the firm...
To Be Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
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Democracy, Education and Research
The Conditions of Social Change
There are many books focusing upon recipe-like strategies for undertaking research, and there are many books on the politics of change and sustainable change in communities. However in this ground-breaking book four leading experts in the field of research combine their talents to offer a very...
To Be Published August 24th 2012 by Routledge
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Defining The Curriculum
Histories and Ethnographies
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
This book explores some of the major processes involved in the definition of school subject knowledge. Using historical ethnographic methods, the contributors to the collection highlight and examine some of the factors involved at national, institutional and classroom levels in the making of school...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Improving Learning through the Lifecourse
Learning Lives
Series: Improving Learning
Adult learning matters. There is now widespread agreement that modern countries depend on the creativity, skills and knowledge of the entire population for their prosperity. Many people talk of our future well-being in terms of a ‘knowledge economy’ or a ‘learning society’ in which every person’s...
Published February 22nd 2011 by Routledge
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Education, Globalisation and New Times
21 Years of the Journal of Education Policy
Series: Education Heritage
Education, Globalisation and New Times comprises a selection of the most influential papers published over the twenty-one years of the Journal of Education Policy. Written by many of the leading scholars in the field, these seminal papers cover a variety of subjects, sectors and levels of...
Published May 16th 2010 by Routledge
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Narrative Learning
What is the role of narrative in how people learn throughout their lives? Are there different patterns and forms of narrativity? How do they influence learning? Based on data gathered for the Learning Lives project, which sought to understand learning by questioning individuals about their life...
Published February 23rd 2010 by Routledge
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Learning, Curriculum and Life Politics
The Selected Works of Ivor F. Goodson
Series: World Library of Educationalists
As schooling has become more commodity-based, the place and position of learning and curriculum has been transformed and new perspectives are needed to understand these rapidly changing times. By studying life histories and life politics we can gain insights into the relationship...
Published September 14th 2005 by Routledge
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Subject Knowledge
Readings For The Study Of School Subjects
Series: Teachers' Library
School knowledge has been a subject for historians, notably in the field of history of education. concentrating on the educational aspects of particular historical periods, however, links with contemporary education have often remained undeveloped.; This text attempts to account for the growth of...
Published September 16th 1997 by Routledge
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Studying School Subjects
A Guide
Series: Teachers' Library
School subjects and how they are viewed and positioned within education is the focus of this text. It argues that, as part of rethinking the whole school curriculum, there has been a failure to look at the historical and social background of school subjects....
Published November 28th 1996 by Routledge
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Teachers' Professional Lives
Published March 24th 1996 by Routledge
