The Learning Adult: Building and Reflecting on the Work of Peter Jarvis

The Learning Adult: Building and Reflecting on the Work of Peter Jarvis

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Publisher's Synopsis

Peter Jarvis is a towering figure in adult and lifelong education and a leading and original theorist of learning. This book explores the breadth and significance of his work. Sixteen chapters by leading international scholars explain and engage critically with his theorisation of learning, and with his extensive writings on the sociology, politics, ethics and history of adult education, and on professional education, lifelong learning and the learning society. The authors discuss his ideas, their influence and origins. They cover his contribution to learning theory, the recurring ethical themes in his writing, and the implications of his work for areas such as the education of migrants. They explore his global engagement as a scholar not only in different areas of lifelong education, but across the world: much-travelled, Peter Jarvis has supported the growth of adult education as a humane profession - as well as a field of study - in Africa, Asia, North and South America, and Australasia, as well as Europe. They also address the intense humanism of his work, which has been continually informed by theological and ethical concerns: though he taught for three decades at the University of Surrey, where he was Head of the Department of Educational Studies and is now Emeritus Professor, he has been a Minister of the Methodist Church for over half a century.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Lifelong Education.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780367590734
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 374
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 260
Weight: 471g
Height: 246mm
Width: 174mm
Spine width: 8mm