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Protestant Dublin, 1660-1760
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00This innovative urban history of Dublin explores the symbols and spaces of the Irish capital between the Restoration in 1660 and the advent of neoclassical public architecture in the 1770s. The meanings ascribed to statues, churches, houses, and public buildings are traced in detail, using a wide range of visual and written sources. more...
Postmodernism and Education
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 65.95This book shows the impact of postmodernism upon the theory and practice of education and how it challenges the existing concepts, structures and hierarchies. more...
Globalisation and Pedagogy
RoutledgeFalmer 2000; US$ 160.00There is considerable debate in education today as to the nature, extent and significance of globalisation. This upper undergraduate and post graduate book looks at this highly topical issue in a fresh and readable way. more...
Understanding Educational Research
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 57.95This book explores educational research in terms of the relationship between epistemology, methodology and practice. Divided into two sections, the first examines the frameworks which underpin the methods educational researchers use. The second looks at a broad spectrum of approaches, including feminist approaches, action research, ethnography and... more...
Globalisation and Pedagogy
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95With 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 globalisation, incuding: What is the role of the... more...
Researching Education
Continuum International Publishing 2000; US$ 120.00This volume is a study of the theory and practice of researching education. It examines the philosophical, historical, political and social contexts of researching and the implications of these for the collection and analysis of data. The authors argue that power is ever present in the construction of research texts and this is inevitable, as research... more...
Researching Education
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 140.00Researching Education looks at the theory and practice of researching education and examines the philosophical, historical, political and social contexts of research and the implications of these for the collection and analysis of data. Scott and Usher argue that while power is ever present in the construction of research texts, this is inevitable... more...
Situated Ethics in Educational Research
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 57.95Ethics has traditionally been seen as a set of general principles which can be applied in a range of situations. This book argues that in fact ethical principles must be shaped within different research practices and hence take on different significances according to varying research situations. The book develops the notion of situated ethics and explores... more...
Rhetoric and Educational Discourse
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 59.95Educational 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 something to be dismissed, rhetorical analysis offers... more...
Adult Education and the Postmodern Challenge
Taylor and Francis 1996; US$ 55.95This book offers some suggestions as to ways forward from this dilemma. Drawing on the new intellectual frameworks of critical pedagogy, feminism and postmodernism and their impact upon educational theory, practice and research, the book focuses on the changing contexts of adult education. By building on the notion of going beyond the limits of certain... more...









