Rachel Brooks - Changing Spaces of Education: New Perspectives on the Nature of Learning

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Changing spaces of education : new perspectives on the nature of learning /
[edited by] Rachel Brooks, Alison Fuller, Johanna Waters.

p. cm.

1. Blended learning. 2. School environment. 3. Transnational education. 4. Distance educationComputer-assisted instruction. 5. SpaceSocial aspects. I. Brooks, Rachel, 1971 II. Fuller, Alison, 1957 III. Waters, Johanna L. (Johanna Lesley), 1976
LB1028.5.C479 2012
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Rachel Brooks is Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK. Her research interests relate primarily to young peoples experiences of post-compulsory education and training. Her most recent book is Student Mobilities, Migration and the Internationalization of Higher Education (coauthored with Johanna Waters, 2011). She is also interested in research methods, and is currently editing a book on ethical challenges in youth research with Kitty te Riele.

Francis Collins is Lecturer in the School of Environment at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His research focuses on international student mobilities, temporary migration and changing urban form and experience, and the politics of cultural diversity in cities.

Grinne Conole is Professor of Learning Innovation and Director of the Beyond Distance Research Alliance at the University of Leicester, UK. She was previously Professor of E-Learning in the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University, UK. Her research interests include the use, integration and evaluation of Information and Communication Technologies and e-learning and the impact of technologies on organizational change.

Richard Edwards is Professor of Education at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He has written and researched extensively on lifelong learning, curriculum-making, globalization and post-structuralism. His most recent book is Actor-network Theory in Education (2010) co-authored with Tara Fenwick.

Laura C. Engel is Assistant Professor of International Education and International Affairs at the George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA. Her research interests include international education policy, globalization and education, and issues of citizenship and governance in Europe. x

Karen Evans is Professor at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK. Her main fields of research are learning in life and work transitions, and learning in and through the workplace. She is a leading researcher in the ESRC LLAKES Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies and has directed major studies of learning and the world of work in Britain and internationally. Books include: Improving Literacy at Work (2011); Learning, Work and Social Responsibility (2009); Improving Workplace Learning (2006); Reconnection: Countering Social Exclusion through Situated Learning (2004); Working to Learn (2002); Learning and Work in the Risk Society (2000).