Open learning and the demise of discipline?

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Kathy Nicoll

Kathy Nicoll of the School of Adult Education at the University of Technology, Sydney, and Richard Edwards of the OU UK's School of Education examine the extent to which open learning invents new disciplines for both learner and practitioners while at the same time subverting former forms of discipline, and disciplines. With a particular focus on the ideas of Foucault, the authors address the ways in which open learning reconfigures the relationship between knowledge and power