School of Education

Room A41, Pathfoot
School of Education
University of Stirling
Stirling
Scotland

FK9 4LA

Tel: + 44 (0) 1786 466264

Richard Edwards is Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education.  Prior to joining the University in 2001, he was Reader in Education (Lifelong Learning) at the Open University, UK, where he was involved in producing distance learning courses for those interested in post-compulsory education and training. He has researched and written extensively on many aspects of lifelong learning.

1. T. Fenwick, R. Edwards and P. Sawchuk (2011) Emerging Approaches to Educational Research: Tracing the Sociomaterial, London: Routledge.
2. Fenwick, T., & Edwards, R. (2010). Actor-network Theory in Education. London: Routledge
3. Miller, K., Edwards, R., & Priestley, M. (2010). Levels and equivalence in credit and qualifications frameworks: Contrasting the prescribed and enacted curriculum in school and college. Research Papers in Education, 25(2), 225-243.
4. Edwards, R (2010). ‘Lifelong learning: emergent enactments’. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 18(2), 145-157.
   
5. Edwards, R. (2010). The end of lifelong learning: a post-human condition? Studies in the Education of Adults 42(1), 5-18.
6. Edwards, R. (2010). Rewriting educational policy: scribbling in the margins of lifelong learning. In M. Simmons et al. (Eds.), Re-reading Education Policies: A Handbook Studying the Policy Agenda of the 21st Century (418-432). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers
7. R. Edwards, G. Biesta and M. Thorpe (2009) (eds) Rethinking Contexts for Learning and Teaching, London: Routledge.
8. R. Ivanic, R. Edwards, et al. (2009) Improving Learning in College: Rethinking Literacies Across the Curriculum, London: Routledge.
9. Robin Usher and Richard Edwards (2007) Lifelong Learning – Signs, discourses, Practices, Springer.
10. Richard Edwards and Katherine Nicoll (2006). Expertise, competence and reflection in the rhetoric of professional development. British Educational Research Journal 32,1.
11. Richard Edwards, Jim Gallacher and Susan Whittaker (Eds) Learning Outside the Academy, Routledge.
12. Richard Edwards, Katherine Nicoll, Nicky Solomon and Robin Usher (2004). Rhetoric and Educational Discourse: Persuasive Texts? Routledge.
13. Richard Edwards and Robin Usher (eds) (2004). Spatiality, Curriculum and Learning. Information Age Press.
14. Richard Edwards, Nod Miller, Nick Small and Alan Tait (eds) (2002). Supporting Lifelong Learning, Vol. III: Making Policy Work. Routledge.
15. Fiona Reeve, Richard Edwards and Marion Cartwright (eds) (2001). Supporting Lifelong Learning, Vol. II: Organising Learning. Routledge.
16. Carrie Paechter, Richard Edwards, Roger Harrison and Peter Twining (eds) (2001). Learning, Space and Identity. Paul Chapman.
17. Richard Edwards and Robin Usher (2000). Globalisation and Pedagogy: Space, Place and Identity. Routledge.
18. Richard Edwards (1997). Changing Places? Flexibility, Lifelong Learning and a Learning Society. Routledge.
19. Robin Usher and Richard Edwards (1994). Postmodernism and Education. London: Routledge.
    

Complete list of publications Aug 2001 - July 2006

Richard Edwards researches and writes in the areas of lifelong learning, policy studies, further and adult education. He is particularly interested in exploring these areas drawing upon post-structuralist and postmodernist perspectives.