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Informationen zum Autor Richard Edwards is Professor of Educattion and Katherine Nicoll is Lecturer in Education, both at the University of Stirling. Nicky Solomon is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Technology, Sydney. Robin Usher is Professor of Education at RMIT University in Melbourne. Klappentext The first to present a philosophical and linguistic analysis of rhetoric and discourse as deployed throughout education, this book is a key resource for those conducting research into discourse in any branch of education. Zusammenfassung The first to present a philosophical and linguistic analysis of rhetoric and discourse as deployed throughout education, this book is a key resource for those conducting research into discourse in any branch of education. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Acts of Seduction? 2. Rhetorical Practices 3. Metaphors of and in Learning and Teaching 4. Inventing the 'Good Teacher' 5. Cyberspace, Cyberbole: Metaphorizing the Virtual 6. Taking Up Workplace Learning 7. Action at a Distance: the Rhetoric of Research Management 8. Sultans of Spin? 9. The Migrating and Forging of Policy 10. Writing Research
