Peter Jarvis
Peter Jarvis is an internationally renowned expert in the fields of lifelong learning, adult and continuing education. He is Professor of Continuing Education at the University of Surrey where he was the former head of the Department of Educational Studies and is a former Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Adult Education, at the University of Georgia, USA. He holds honorary visiting professorships in City University (UK), Pecs University (Hungary) and Tianjin Radio and Television University (China). He is also a Special Professor at the University of Nottingham. He is also a frequent speaker on all aspects of adult education, distance learning and lifelong learning throughout the world. Peter has received a variety of academic honours, such as: being President of the British Association of International and Comparative Education (BAICE) in the year 1999-2000; the Cyril O Houle World Award for Adult Education Literature from the American Association of Adult and Continuing Education; on two occasions; the Comenius Award - International ESVA Foundation (Outstanding Adult Educator in Europe - First Holder); he was also the first non-North American to be elected to the International Hall of Fame of Adult and Continuing Education in USA, which is located in University of Oklahoma. He was also awarded a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science research fellowship at the University of Tokyo. He was Noted Scholar at the University of British Columbia, and has been a Visiting Professor at the universities of Ljubljana, Pedagogical University of Tallinn, Tennessee, Alaska at Anchorage and Maryland. He is an honorary member of a number of Professional Associations in different parts of the world. Additionally, Peter has also been involved in writing a number of research reports ranging from curriculum evaluation in nursing to older people mentoring in the workplace. He has been grant holder for a number of research projects.
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Peter has written or contributed to the following books for Routledge:
Learning to be a Person in Society
Learning is a lifelong process and we are the result of our own learning. But how exactly do we learn to be a person through…
read moreJune 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41903-1 (Routledge)
The Routledge International Handbook of Lifelong Learning
As lifelong learning grows in popularity, few comprehensive pictures of the phenomenon have emerged. The Routledge International Handbook of Lifelong Learning provides a disciplined and…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41904-8 (Routledge)
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Democracy, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society
Active Citizenship in a Late Modern Age
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…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35544-5 (Routledge)
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Globalization, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society
Sociological Perspectives
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…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35542-1 (Routledge)
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The Theory and Practice of Teaching
2nd Edition
An introduction to the techniques, contemporary theories and methods of teaching from facilitating problem-based learning to the role of the lecture, this book explores the…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36524-6 (Routledge)
From Adult Education to the Learning Society
21 Years of the International Journal of Lifelong Education
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…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36494-2 (Routledge)
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Human Learning
An Holistic Approach
Learning is among the most basic of human activities. The study of, and research into, learning forms a central part of educational studies. The well-respected…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34098-4 (Routledge)
Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
Theory and Practice, 3rd Edition
This is the third edition of Peter Jarvis' classic textbook, Adult and Continuing Education, which established itself as the most widely used and respected book…
read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-31492-3 (Routledge)
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The Theory and Practice of Learning
2nd Edition
Learning is among the most basic of human activities. The study of learning, and research into learning is becoming a central part of educational studies.…
read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-7494-3931-6 (Routledge)
An International Dictionary of Adult and Continuing Education
2nd Edition
Containing over 5000 essential references to people, organisations, words and concepts in the field of adult education, this thorough and comprehensive volume represents the standard… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-7494-2671-2 (Routledge)
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Peter has written and edited well over 30 books and 200 papers and chapters in books on adult education and learning, continuing professional education, nurse education, primary school education, distance education and third age education. For Routledge, he has been a prolific author, writing and contributing to numerous titles.
His most recent work is editing the ‘The Routledge International Handbook of Lifelong Learning’ .This authoritative volume, essential reading for academics in the field of Lifelong Learning, examines the complexities of the subject within a systematic global framework and places it in its socio-historic context. It provides a disciplined and complete overview of lifelong learning internationally.
Also published this year, was his third book in The Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society Trilogy - Democracy, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society. In this volume Peter addresses the issues that arise from the vision of the learning society. The book concludes that since human beings continue to learn, so the learning society must be a process within the incomplete project of humanity. With the release of this final volume, Peter completes his comprehensive, multi-disciplinary study of lifelong learning and the learning society. Between them, the three volumes analyse every aspect of learning, from the fundamental psychology of the human drive to learn, to the global sociological apparatus in which learning takes place. The other two books in this series are Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Human Learning and Globalization, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society.
Next year, Routledge will be publishing his work ‘Learning to be a Person in Society’, a book which offers understanding of human learning, reaching beyond established research to the complexities that make us who we are.
Peter serves on editorial boards of a number of journals in different parts of the world. He is the founding editor of The International Journal of Lifelong Education, which he has edited for nearly thirty years. He is also involved with Adult Education Quarterly in the USA, Comparative Education and Nurse Education Today.
