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1. World Yearbook of Education 2007

   Educating the Global Workforce: Knowledge, Knowledge Work and Knowledge Workers

   Edited by Lesley Farrell, Tara Fenwick

   Series: World Yearbook of Education

   The 2007 edition of this respected international volume considers the challenges facing work related education arising from the rapid expansion of the global economy and the impact of this on labour markets and individual workers. Including perspectives from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Africa,...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
2. Knowledge Mobilization and Educational Research

   Politics, languages and responsibilities

   Edited by Tara Fenwick, Lesley Farrell

   How can educational research have more impact? What processes of knowledge exchange are most effective for increasing the uses of research results? How can research-produced knowledge be better ‘mobilized’ among users such as practicing educators, policy makers, and the public communities? These...

   Published August 21st 2011 by Routledge
3. Emerging Approaches to Educational Research

   Tracing the Socio-Material

   By Tara Fenwick, Richard Edwards, Peter Sawchuk

   The last fifteen years have seen much conceptual and methodological innovation in research on education and learning across the lifecourse, bringing both fresh insights and new dilemmas. This innovation was initially fuelled by the growing influence of conceptual framings often named as either...

   Published July 14th 2011 by Routledge
4. Actor-Network Theory in Education

   By Tara Fenwick, Richard Edwards

   Actor-Network Theory (ANT) has enjoyed wide uptake in the social sciences in the past three decades, particularly in science and technology studies, and is increasingly attracting the attention of educational researchers. ANT studies bring to the fore the material – objects of all kinds –...

   Published May 27th 2010 by Routledge