Learning Discourse

The Author: Rob Evans, born in London, studied Russian language and literature, Slavonic languages, East European and Far Eastern history at the Universities of Leeds, Brno, Leningrad, and Tübingen. His first degree is from the University of Leeds. After an extended period of work in adult, further and higher education, he took up academic studies again, gaining an M.A. and a Doctorate in Education with the Open University, Milton Keynes. He has lived and worked outside the United Kingdom since 1977, in Germany, Italy and most recently in Cairo.

• Contents: Intro-Focus-Rationale – Reviewing the field: concepts and contexts – Doing the research – An individual case study: Marie – Constructing learning biographies – Competing discourses, interdiscursivity, prosody – Discourses of knowledge and learning – Learning and identity as category-bound activities – Conclusions.