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1. Proactive and Reactive Learning

   Understanding the Essence of Being and Learning

   By Peter Jarvis

   To Be Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Reactive and Proactive Learning

   Learning to Do

   By Peter Jarvis

   This groundbreaking book builds on the notion of ‘Action Learning’ and explores the new concept of ‘Learning to Do’. Most studies on learning have been primarily focused on the cognitive even though it is widely recognised that the way we act is crucial to our understanding of humanity and the way...

   To Be Published January 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Routledge International Handbook of Learning

   Edited by Peter Jarvis, Mary Watts

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education

   As our understanding of learning focuses on the whole person rather than individual aspects of learning, so the process of learning is beginning to be studied from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines. This handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary research into...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
4. From Adult Education to the Learning Society

   21 Years of the International Journal of Lifelong Education

   By Peter Jarvis

   Series: Education Heritage

   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 articles from the first two decades of the International Journal of Lifelong Education, written by leading authors in the field from the...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Sociology of Adult & Continuing Education

   By Peter Jarvis

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   This book 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 all the significant sociological writers in the field such as Knowles, Marx, Freire and Gramsci and sets...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
6. Adult Learning in the Social Context

   By Peter Jarvis

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   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 adult learning which is analysed in depth. This model arises from the results of a research project in which adults analysed...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
7. Paradoxes of Learning

   On Becoming An Individual in Society

   By Peter Jarvis

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   As more is discovered about the powerful impact of lifelong learning on adults, educators are changing their views about how, when and where we learn. Learning is no longer defined only in the context of formal educational settings but in social context as well – including families, the workplace,...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
8. Inquiry into the Future of Lifelong Learning in the UK

   An International Analysis

   Edited by Peter Jarvis

   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. The book focuses upon some of the main themes of the inquiry, and analyses them from very broad perspectives undertaken...

   Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge
9. Teaching, Learning and Education in Late Modernity

   The Selected Works of Peter Jarvis

   By Peter Jarvis

   Series: World Library of Educationalists

   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 200 papers and chapters in books on learning theory, adult education and learning, continuing professional education,...

   Published October 2nd 2011 by Routledge
10. The Routledge International Handbook of Lifelong Learning

    Edited by Peter Jarvis

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education

    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 complete overview of lifelong learning internationally. The theoretical structure puts the learner at the centre...

    Published October 28th 2010 by Routledge