1st Edition

Learning to be a Person in Society

By Peter Jarvis Copyright 2009
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

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 living? In this book, Peter Jarvis draws together all the aspects of becoming a person into the framework of learning. Considering the ongoing, "nature versus nurture" debate over how we become people, Jarvis’s study of nurture - what learning is primarily about – builds on... Read more

Section 1: Laying the Foundations  1. The Person in Society  2. Learning in Society  3. Learning in Early Childhood  4. Practical Living  5. Experience  6. Meaning  Section 2: Learning Processes  7. Experiencing  8. Perceiving  9. Thinking  10. Knowing  11. Believing  12. Feeling – Emotion  13. Doing  14. Interacting  15. Valuing  16. Positioning  Section 3: Being and Becoming  17. Becoming  18. Being

Biography

Peter Jarvis is an internationally renowned expert in the fields of lifelong learning, adult and continuing education and is founding editor of the International Journal of Lifelong Education (Taylor & Francis). 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 in the Department of Adult Education, University of Georgia, USA. He also holds honorary visiting professorships at City University (UK), Pecs University (Hungary) and Tianjin Radio and Television University (China), and is Special Professor at the University of Nottingham.  Peter is a prolific author, whose recent publications include: The Routledge International Handbook of Lifelong Learning; Democracy, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society; and Globalization, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society (winner of the 2008 Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education).