Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: richard edwards

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  • MAKE: AI ROBOTS
    READE RICHARD / BRENDA SHIVANANDAN / ANDY FOREST / DENZEL EDWARDS
    Artificial intelligence is a tool to explore and create, and it starts here with the experts at Steamlabs, a nonprofit that teaches teens to not just be users of technology, but to create with technology so they can be help shape our future. Make: AI Robots introduces young people to AI through exciting craft projects that start with a mechanical cardboard creation, integrates ...

    $280.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO ACCOUNTING HISTORY
    JOHN RICHARD EDWARDS / ‎STEPHEN P. WALKER
    The Routledge Companion to Accounting History presents a single-volume synthesis of research in this expanding field, exploring and analysing accounting from ancient civilisations to the modern day. No longer perceived as the narrow study of how a mysterious technique was used in past, the scope of accounting history has widened substantially. This revised and updated volume mo...

    $1,179.00

  • A HISTORY OF CORPORATE FINANCIAL REPORTING IN BRITAIN
    JOHN RICHARD EDWARDS
    A History of Corporate Financial Reporting provides an understanding of the procedures and practices which constitute corporate financial reporting in Britain, at different points of time, and how and why those practices changed and became what they are now. Its particular focus is the external financial reporting practices of joint stock companies. This is worth knowing about ...

    $1,099.00

  • FENWICK ON CIVIL LIBERTIES & HUMAN RIGHTS
    HELEN FENWICK / RICHARD EDWARDS
    More than merely describing the evolution of human rights and civil liberties law, this classic textbook provides students with detailed and thought-provoking coverage of the most crucial developments in the field, clearly explaining the law in context and practice. Updated throughout for this new edition, Fenwick on Civil Liberties and Human Rights considers a number of recent...

    $1,559.00

  • EMERGING APPROACHES TO EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
    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 post-structural or postmodern. The works of Foucault, Derrida and Lyotard have variou...

    $1,379.00

  • CULTURE AND PROCESSES OF ADULT LEARNING
    RICHARD EDWARDS
    The authors provide a variety of perspectives on the conceptualisation of adult learning, drawing on sociology, psychology, adult education and applied research into how adults experience learning. Bringing together a number of major contributions to current debates about what learning during adulthood is for, what motivates learning, and how best it might be developed, the aut...

    $1,259.00

  • A HISTORY OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
    RICHARD EDWARDS / TREVOR BOYNS
    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 that can be used in classrooms, to inform new researchers, and to provide a source of referen...

    $1,399.00

  • ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY IN EDUCATION
    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 – and de-centre the human and the social in educational issues. ANT sensibilities are intere...

    $999.00

  • IMPROVING LEARNING IN COLLEGE
    ROZ IVANIC / RICHARD EDWARDS / DAVID BARTON / MARILYN MARTIN-JONES / ZOE FOWLER / BUDDUG HUGHES / GREG MAN
    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 investigates literacy practices in which students engage outside of college, and teac...

    $1,139.00

  • GLOBALISATION & PEDAGOGY
    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 globalisation, incuding: What is the role of the teacher, and how do we teach in th...

    $1,259.00

  • SUPPORTING LIFELONG LEARNING
    RICHARD EDWARDS
    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 policies themselves, and their effects when implemented. The book focuses on the rol...

    $1,099.00

  • POSTMODERNISM AND EDUCATION
    RICHARD EDWARDS / ROBIN USHER
    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 They examine the impact of this thinking upon contemporary theory and practice of education, concentrating particularly upon how postmodernist ideas challenge existing concepts, structures and hierar...

    $1,399.00

  • CHANGING PLACES?
    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 learning society has developed over recent years: the changes that have given rise to t...

    $1,379.00

  • BOUNDARIES OF ADULT LEARNING
    RICHARD EDWARDS
    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 organising concept. A greater range of settings are now recognised as sites produc...

    $1,299.00

  • ADULT LEARNERS, EDUCATION AND TRAINING
    RICHARD EDWARDS
    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 debate has been on creating structures of continuous education and training linked to the economic needs of Britain, arguments and movements for wider access to all forms of learning have continued to be ...

    $1,259.00

  • RHETORIC AND EDUCATIONAL DISCOURSE
    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 something to be dismissed, rhetorical analysis offers a rich and deep arena in w...

    $1,259.00

  • HEROES AND LANDMARKS OF BRITISH AVIATION
    RICHARD EDWARDS / PETER J. EDWARDS
    Heroes and Landmarks of British Aviation tells the dramatic story of a world leading aviation industry, from the sweat and grease of the workshop, to the board rooms and government nationalisations that ultimately fashioned its destiny.The heroes are Britains most innovative aviation pioneers and their aircraft, the men and women who persevered to be the first into the air, to ...

    $129.00