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Providing a valuable route map to the development of thinking in adult education and lifelong learning, this work includes more than 25 articles from the first two decades of the 'International Journal of Lifelong Education'.

Offering a comprehensive international response to the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education's inquiry into the future of lifelong learning in the UK, this book focuses upon some of the main themes of the inquiry and analyses them from very broad perspectives undertaken by some of the world's leading scholars.

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This is a book with a difference: it produces a completely new perspective on lifelong learning and the learning society and locates them within humanity itself.

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Jarvis does a real service by introducing a new vision of research into the current debates over the nature and mission of the academy."--"Continuing Higher Education Review"Jarvis has managed to bridge the worlds of theory and professional practice in a way that will help each better understand the other."--Jon Wergin, professor of educational studies, School of Education, Virginia Commonwealth University Genuine understanding of any field ca...

This unique text provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in adult education and lifelong learning. It includes more than twenty-five seminal articles from the first two decades of the International Journal of Lifelong Education, written by leading authors in the field from the UK, the USA, Australia and Europe. Compiled to show the development of the field, the articles are divided into four sections: From Ault Education...

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A multidisciplinary analysis of learning in contemporary society. It analyzes both the meaning and the place of these strands that make up modern education and offers an overview of the part they play in the work of all educators, trainers, teachers and course developers.

Peter Jarvis has spent over 30 years researching, thinking and writing about some of the key and enduring issues in education. He has contributed well over 30 books and 200 papers and chapters in books on learning theory, adult education and learning, continuing professional education, nurse education, primary school education, distance education and third age education. In Teaching, Learning and Education in Late Modernity, he brings together...

Considers the many changes that have occurred in the field of adult education.

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This book critically assesses the learning that is required and provided within a learning society and gives a detailed sociological analysis of the emerging role of lifelong learning with examples from around the globe. Divided into three clear parts the book: looks at the development of the knowledge economy provides a critique of lifelong learning and the learning society focuses on the changing nature of research in the learning society. ...

As interest grows in theories of lifelong learning not only across society but also as an area of serious academic study, the need has arisen for a thorough and critical study of the phenomenon. This distillation of the work of renowned writer Peter Jarvis addresses this need, looking at the processes involved in human learning from birth to old age and moving the field on from previous unsystematic and mainly psychological studies. Instead, J...

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This book contains papers from well known European scholars in the field of adult education about the developments that are occurring in their countries, especially in relation to the modernity/post-modernity question in Western Europe. The book opens with a general overview of the field by Franz Pöggeler which is followed by ten accounts of adult education in both Eastern and Western Europe. The final paper, by Peter Jarvis, shows how difficu...