5th Edition
Adult Education and Lifelong Learning Theory and Practice
1. The person as learner
2. The learning society
3. Education and learning
4. Learning
5. Perspectives on learning theory
6. Developments in learning theory
7. Teaching adults
8. The processes of teaching
9. Theoretical perspectives on teaching
10. Distance education and open learning
11. Assessing and evaluating
12. Curriculum theory and programme planning
13. Practice, theory, research and policy
14. The professional preparation of teachers of adults
Biography
Peter Jarvis (1937–2018) was an internationally renowned expert in the fields of lifelong learning, adult and continuing education and was founding editor of the International Journal of Lifelong Education (Taylor & Francis). He was Professor of Continuing Education at the University of Surrey, UK and was a former Adjunct Professor in the Department of Adult Education, University of Georgia, USA. Peter was a prolific author, whose publications include: The Routledge International Handbook of Lifelong Learning; Democracy, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society; and Globalization, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society.
