1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458963103321

Titolo

Narrative learning / / Ivor F. Goodson. [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-15320-5

1-135-15321-3

1-282-57025-0

9786612570254

0-203-85688-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (150 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GoodsonIvor

Disciplina

370.72

374.01

Soggetti

Education - Biographical methods

Education - Methodology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; About the authors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Life, narrative and learning; 2 John Peel; 3 Marie Tuck; 4 Maggie Holman; 5 Diogenes; 6 Christopher; 7 Paul Larsen; 8 Eva; 9 Russell Jackson; 10 Towards a theory of narrative learning; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

What is the role of narrative in how people learn throughout their lives?Are there different patterns and forms of narrativity? How do they influence learning?Based on data gathered for the Learning Lives project, which sought to understand learning by questioning individuals about their life stories, this book seeks to define a new learning theory which focuses on the role of narrative and narration in learning. Through a number of detailed case-studies based on longitudinal interviews conducted over three and four-year periods with a wide range of life story informa



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778138203321

Titolo

Empires of Religion [[electronic resource] /] / edited by H. Carey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2008

ISBN

1-282-25998-9

9786612259982

0-230-22872-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2008.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (363 p.)

Collana

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, , 2635-1633

Disciplina

200.9171241

270.09171/241

270.09171241

Soggetti

Imperialism

History

Great Britain—History

Philosophy

Religion—History

History, Modern

Imperialism and Colonialism

History of Science

History of Britain and Ireland

History of Philosophy

History of Religion

Modern History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Empires of Religion; Part I: Religious Metropoles; Part II: Colonies and Mission Fields: Greater Britain: Whiteness and its Limits; Part II: Colonies and Mission Fields: Friends of the Native? Universalism and Its Limits; Part III: Post-Colonial Transformations; Select Bibliography; Index



Sommario/riassunto

A sparkling new collection on religion and imperialism, covering Ireland and Britain, Australia, Canada, the Cape Colony and New Zealand, Botswana and Madagascar. Bursting with accounts of lively characters and incidents from around the British world, this collection is essential reading for all students of religious and imperial history.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910156459703321

Autore

Vidal Gore

Titolo

In a Yellow Wood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waipu : , : Pickle Partners Publishing, , 1979

©1979

ISBN

1-78625-976-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (134 p.)

Disciplina

823/.9/1

Soggetti

Love

Stockbrokers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Master storyteller Gore Vidal's 1947 classic.Robert Holton has returned from Europe and settled into a solitary existence working for a New York stockbroker. He suppresses memories of nights of love in Florence as he tries to succeed in the city, but when Carla turns up he has to choose between conventionality and the fraught path of love.