Fragile Learning

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mathew, David

Mental Health

Routledge

The courtiers of Henry VIII

Eyre & Spottiswoode

Lady Jane Grey: the setting of the reign

Eyre Methuen Ltd.

What are the barriers and obstacles to adults learning? What makes the process of adult learning so fragile? And what exactly do we mean by Fragile Learning? This book addresses these questions in two ways. In Part One, it looks at challenges to learning, examining issues such as language invention in a maximum security prison, geography and bad technology, and pedagogic fragility in Higher Education. Through a psychoanalytic lens, Fragile Learning examines authorial illness and the process of slow recovery as a tool for reflective learning, and explores ethical issues in problem-based learning. The second part of the book deals specifically with the problem of online anxiety. From cyberbullying to Internet boredom, the book asks what the implications for educational design in our contemporary world might be. It compares education programmes that insist on the Internet and those that completely ban it, while exploring conflict, virtual weapons and the role of the online personal tutor. The book also examines the issue of time as a barrier to learning and its links to unconscious thinking, as well as defining fragility in a summative essay.

Fragile Learning: The Influence of Anxiety

O My Days

Literature & Fiction

Montag Press

Sick Dice

Short Stories & Anthologies

Five women are joined by more than the bonds of friendship. However, they have no idea that the secrets they individually harbour create a darkness that will draw them closer together with deadly consequences. There is some hope that the arrival of a mysterious policeman named Kolko will help them see the connections before it's too late. The problem is that everyone keeps forgetting their past - either in little pieces or in wholechunks.There are hundreds of questions for the women to answer. Is Stephen really back from the dead? Did he die alone and unnoticed in his tenement flat, carving his final words "Please feed me" into the table? Is one of them trying to kill with poisoned pizza? And what happened to the girls in Egypt, or to Dorothy up the side of the mountain that resembled a face?Here in The Parry and the Lunge, once again, the master of time-fiction, David Mathew (O My Days, Sick Dice, Ventriloquists) burrows deep into the hidden stories of his characters, where nothing is what it seems, and everyone has something to hide."In The Parry and the Lunge, Mathew stirs together idioms and genres into a riotous and pungent stew. What comes over at first as provincial social satire, with the wonted illicit sex and buried violence, opens, like a flower or a wound, becoming strange - a maw gapes under its finely depicted south-Bedfordshire setting and gulps everything down."Timothy J. Jarvis, AUTHOR OF THE WANDERER"This is a big book in every way; it has muscles; you can feel it flex as the story unfolds. Mathew is ambitious and daring, even the title bobs and weaves. The language is, as ever, fulminous."PAUL MELOY, AUTHOR OF ADORNMENTS OF THE STORM

The Parry and the Lunge

Genre Fiction

Spy The Lie Workbook: "A Practical Workbook for Detecting Deception, Reading People Accurately, and Uncovering the Truth with Confidence."

Psychology & Counseling

Independently published

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