Books by Richard (University of Stirling Edwards

This text 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 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.

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.