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Edwards, Richard; Ivanic, Roz; Mannion, Greg – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2009
This paper draws upon the experience of the Literacies for Learning in Further Education research project in the UK. The project explored the literacy demands of a number of curriculum areas and the literacy practices of students in their everyday lives, in order to identify those "border literacies" which may act as resources for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Literacy, College Students
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Edwards, Richard – Studies in Continuing Education, 1998
Outlines the usefulness of discourse for guidance and counseling; explains how discourse can solve theory-practice problems. Maps and locates guidance and counseling practice in relation to six discourses: user, practitioner, professional, manager, policymaker, academic. Contains 39 references. (SK)
Descriptors: Counseling, Foreign Countries, Guidance Programs, Professional Development
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Harrison, Roger; Edwards, Richard; Brown, Jonathan – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2001
Draws on the authors' experience of developing and presenting an Open University Masters level course: Guidance and Counselling in Learning. Explores the diversity of contexts for guidance practices and the assumptions about the relationship between theory and practice that is embedded in various approaches to professional development. (Contains…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Counseling, Foreign Countries, Guidance
Edwards, Richard; Cervero, Ron; Clarke, Julia; Morgan-Klein, Brenda; Usher, Robin; Wilson, Arthur – 2002
Recent empirical and theoretical literature in cultural geography, feminist and postcolonial philosophy, cultural studies, and political economy, was explored in an examination of the significance of spatiality to the changes taking place in the policy, practice, and study of adult education and lifelong learning. The following were among the key…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning