This textbook gives you a clear overview of the most influential twentieth and twenty-first century thinkers on education, including established names (including Vygotsky, Bruner, Dewey), more recent writers (such as Freire, Kolb, Claxton) and many other important theorists whose writings have helped shaped our views on teaching and learning.
Covering over a century's worth of debate, thinking and writing about literature, this is a unique guide to the lives and works of fifty theorists who have left an indelible mark on literary studies. Featuring theorists such as Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud and Edward Said.
The most comprehensive of its kind, Nursing Theorists and Their Work, 8th Edition provides an in-depth look at 39 theorists of historical, international, and significant importance. Each chapter features a clear, consistent presentation of a key nursing philosophy or theory. Case studies, critical thinking activities, and in-depth objective critiques of nursing theories help bridge the gap between theory and application.
Literature and Its Theorists: A Personal View of Twentieth-Century Criticism
In selecting representative twentieth-century thinkers, Todorov's intention is both to illuminate significant conceptual issues and to suggest intellectual points of contact among well-known figures. . . . In addition to dealing with varying interpretations of criticism's functions and tasks, this work considers means by which several writers of fiction arrived at their own positions on major literary controversies. . . . Literature and Its Theorists work gives ample expression to Todorov's literary and moral convictions.
Architecturally Speaking - Practises of Art, Architecture and the Everyday
This book is an international collection of essays by leading architects, artists and theorists of locality and space. New work by celebrated contributors including Mark Auge, Kryzstof Wodiczko, Anthony Vidler, Lebbeus Woods and Zaha Hadid is juxtaposed with seminal essays by Bernard Tschumi and Doreen Massey. This book will appeal to urbanists, geographers, artists, architects, cultural historians and theorists.
