1st Edition

Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Human Learning

By Peter Jarvis Copyright 2006
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Part 1: An Existential Theory of Learning  1. An Existential Model of Lifelong Learning  2. The Learner  3. Learning in the Social Context  4. Learning and the Nature of Experience  5. Learning through the Lifespan  Part 2: Towards an Integrated Theory of Lifelong Learning  6. Action Theories  7. Cognitive Theories  8. Expressive Theories  9. Experiential Theories  Part 3: Paradoxes of Learning  10. Learning and Identity  11. Learning Autonomy and Authenticity  12. Lifelong Learning: the paradoxes and problems of individualism

 

Biography

Peter Jarvis is an internationally renowned expert in the field of adult learning and continuing education. He is Professor of Continuing Education at the University of Surrey, UK, and honorary Adjunct Professor in Adult Education at the University of Georgia, USA.

'It is easy to see how Jarvis’s views are heady and stimulating intellectual fodder for workshops, and certainly learners must feel empowered by being treated as the ultimate and privileged sources of knowledge about learning. Jarvis is intellectually eclectic on a grand scale, and attempts to contextualise his views within existentialist philosophy, phenomenology, social anthropology, psycho-analysis, and many other schemes of thought. All of this is accomplished with great zest and verve.'

- British Journal of Educational Technology Vol 38 No 2 2007