Product Description: 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 which to explore and examine educational issues and practices...read more

Product Description: In recent years there has been increasing interest in issues of space and spatiality in the social sciences and humanities generally, if less so in the study of education. This lack of interest is surprising given the importance of space and time in the organization of teaching and research...read more

Knowing that her cub loves to copy what all the other animals do, Mother takes her Copycub on a midnight stroll to see all the other animals sleeping in the hopes that it will inspire restless Copycub to settle down for the night as well.

Copycub loves a good game of hide-and-seek with his mother, but when he hides so well that he ends up lost and can't be heard, Copycub begins to wonder if his mother will ever find him and bring him back home. Reprint.

Copycub loves a good game of hide-and-seek with his mother, but when he hides so well that he ends up lost and can't be heard, Copycub begins to wonder if his mother will ever find him and bring him back home.

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 the requirement for flexibility, and the changed discourses and practices that have emerged in the education and training of adults. With the growth in interest in adults as learners, (primarily to support economic competitiveness), the closed field of adult education has now been displaced by a more open discourse of lifelong learning. This involves not only changing practices such as moving towards open and distance-based learning, but also changing workplace identities. Learning settings are therefore changing places in a number of senses: they are places in which people change; they are subject to change; and they are changing to include the home and workplace as well as more formal settings. This book takes an unusually critical standpoint: it challenges contemporary trends, explores the uncertainties and ambivalences of the processes of change, and is suggestive of different forms of engagement with them. It will prove an important text for policy makers, workplace trainers and those working in the field of adult, further and higher education. Richard Edwards is currently a Senior Lecturer in post compulsory education at the Open University.

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Product Description: This book contains fully annotated critical editions of the surviving work of one of the most influential poets and dramatists writing in England before Shakespeare. Ros King rewrites the history of pre-Shakespearean drama, illustrating new approaches to 16th-century prosody, and to the modernization of dramatic poetry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For many aquarists, information on their hobby is limited to goldfish and exotic tropical fishes commonly available in local pet stores. Existing guides ignore native American species simply because few people have collected, kept, and successfully propagated them, and reliable information is difficult to find...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Studies three masters of Chinese painting (view table of contents)

While mimicking his mother as she performs her daily tasks, a little cub learns valuable lessons of survival that he will remember throughout his life. 40,000 first printing.

Copycub, who imitates everything that his mother bear does, follows her to their den when winter comes and snow begins to fall

Young readers must decipher the clues contained in the simple rhyming text to discover which animals lurk behind each flap, in a vivid and whimsical alphabet book.

Product Description: 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 explored...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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After a young boy accidentally leaves his beloved stuff dog by a riverbank, the favorite toy, named Watt, is able to find a new home, in a tale illustrated by gentle, soothing paintings.

A first vocabulary book for small children follows a young girl through the day, from early in the morning until late at night, as she takes part in a variety of familiar activities and imaginative escapades.

Product Description: 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 in a global economy, replacing the earlier conception of it as a condition for democratic citizenship...read more

Raised by the wise animals of the forest, a young girl meets a village boy who is apprenticed to a cruel hunter, and their ensuing friendship is shadowed by the clashing beliefs of their opposing worlds.

Settling down under the covers for a good night's sleep, Little Rabbit and Frog are disturbed when Elephant sits up and announces that something is coming, and the surprise arrival involves a giant sneeze.

Product Description: 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 hierarchies...read more