Globalisation and Pedagogy

by Richard G. 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 the context of globalisation?
What curriculum is appropriate when people and ideas become more mobile?
How do the technologies of the internet and mobile phone impact upon what is learnt and by whom?

The second edition of this important book has been fully updated and extended to take account of developments in technology, pedagogy and practice, in particular the growth of distance and e-learning.

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First published March 1, 2000

About the author

Richard Edwards is a Professor of Education and Director of Research. He was previously Head of the School of Education between 2006 - 2013. He has researched and written extensively on many aspects of lifelong learning and educational theory and practice. He has been an investigator in a number of ESRC funded projects and seminar series, including Literacies for Learning in Further Education, Curriculum making in School and College, Ensemble and Code Acts in Eudcation; Learning through Code, Learning to Code. He is currently researching on the role of amateurs and informal learning in citizen science. His work is heavily influenced by post-structuralism and actor-network theory.