Bøker av Robin Usher

This 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.

This volume is offers a philosophical and linguistic analysis of rhetoric and discourse as deployed throughout education. It should be a useful resource for those conducting research into discourse in any branch of education.

What is legitimate knowledge? What is the relationship between the collection and analysis of data? Looking at the theory and practice of researching education, this book examines the philosophical, historical, political and social contexts of research and the implications of these for the collection and analysis of data.

With different pedagogic practices come different ways of examining them and fresh understandings of their implications and assumptions. This book offers an examination of these changes and developments. It examines a number of questions posed by the rapid march of globalisation.

This text explores the relationship between knowledge, methodology and research practice across the broad spectrum of the social sciences. It examines socio-cultural contexts of social research and relates them to contemporary shifts in focus such

Drawing on the intellectual frameworks of critical pedagogy, feminism and postmodernism and their impact upon educational theory, practice and research, this study focuses on the changing contexts of adult education.

Explores the nature of postmodernism, providing an introduction to key writers in the field such as Lacan, Derrida, Foucault and Lyotard, and examines the impact of this thinking on the contemporary theory and practice of education.