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This volume offers a comprehensive international response to the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE)'s inquiry into the future of lifelong learning in the UK. It was originally published…
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Peter Jarvis
Adult Education and Lifelong Learning is regarded as one of the most widely used textbooks about adult education.
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Jarvis does a real service by introducing a new vision of research into the current debates over the nature and mission of the academy. —-Continuing Higher Education Review Jarvis has…
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This five-volume set draws on books, journals, reports and historical papers to map the vast field of education for adults which have influenced the development of both the practice and…
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Professor Peter Jarvis has spent over 30 years researching, thinking and writing about some of the key and enduring issues in education. He has contributed well over 30 books and…
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As lifelong learning grows in popularity, few comprehensive pictures of the phenomenon have emerged. This volume is designed to demonstrate precisely what is happening around the world and to do…
A multidisciplinary analysis of learning in contemporary society. It analyzes both the meaning and the place of these strands that make up modern education and offers an overview of the…
Discussing such themes as democracy and citizenship, this book analyses adult education from a political perspective.
A guide for all teachers and student teachers, whether they be in colleges, universities or schools, to the wide variety of different approaches and techniques, theories and methods of teaching.
How exactly do we learn to be a person through living? In this book, Peter Jarvis demonstrates the ways in which we become social human beings. It will appeal to…
This volume offers a comprehensive international response to the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE)‘s inquiry into the future of lifelong learning in the UK. It was originally published…
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
An analysis of learning throughout the whole of life. Written as a text for both educators and carers, it demonstrates how the learning process works through life and how learning…
A practical guide to help master the art of drawing buildings accurately and learn the techniques of the architectural illustrator.
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. This…
Peter Jarvis (University of Surrey, UK)
This study explores how learning is our lifetime quest to understand personal identity, purpose and meaning while conforming and adapting to the perceived and real confines of our paradoxical society…
This work provides a comprehensive sociological overview of adult and continuing education. It draws on all branches of sociology rather than advocating one approach. It examines the theories of significant…
This book is a logical progression from The Sociology of Adult and Continuing Education. The author takes a completely new approach to the subject and puts forward a model of…
Describes step-by-step how to prepare and direct familiar type of common programme format including interviews, discussions, reportage, music and dramatisations shot either on location or in the multi-camera studio. This…
Presents a handy reference source for those involved in location shooting. This book details the organisational and legal requirements that programme makers are likely to encounter, telling you which authorities…
First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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 itself.
An exploration of the world of higher education and higher learning, and its relationship to the corporate world and the global learning society. Peter Jarvis synthesizes developments in HE, training…
This book assesses theories of learning across all ages to construct a new model for analysing how humans learn.
This book critically assesses the learning that is required and provided within a learning society and provides a detailed sociological analysis of the emerging role of lifelong learning with examples…
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In this new edition, the author has made extensive revisions and included substantial additional material to take account of the many changes that have occurred in the field of adult…
Published in 1983, one of the main intentions of this book is to examine the concept of education from the perspective of the education of people in a wide variety…
Samuel Peters Jarvis
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Dr. Peter Jarvis
A unique collection of concise information on all 10,000 animals, plants, fungi and algae of the British Isles. Covering the taxonomy, habitat, distribution, abundance, status and, for animals, diet and…
