Ricca Edmondson

Gebundenes Buch

Ageing, insight and wisdom

Beschreibung

This book focuses on older people as makers of meaning and insight, highlighting the ways older people form part of social and symbolic landscapes and the types of wisdom they can offer.

Autor

Ricca Edmondson is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. After studying philosophy at the University of Lancaster and writing her D.Phil. at Oxford on reasoning in the social sciences, she carried out research at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. She then joined the School of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway, specialising in interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches to life-course meaning and wisdom, and their history, landscapes and social settings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Policy Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781847425935
• ISBN-10: 1847425933
• Artikelnr.: 41756681