Peter has written and edited well over 30 books and 200 papers and chapters in books on adult education and learning, continuing professional education, nurse education, primary school education, distance education and third age education. For Routledge, he has been a prolific author, writing and contributing to numerous titles.
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Peter Jarvis is an internationally renowned expert in the fields of lifelong learning, adult and continuing education. 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, Dept. of Adult Education, at the University of Georgia, USA. He holds honorary visiting professorships in City University (UK), Pecs University (Hungary) and Tianjin Radio and Television University (China). He is also a Special Professor at the University of Nottingham. He is also a frequent speaker on all aspects of adult education, distance learning and lifelong learning throughout the world. Peter has received a variety of academic honours, such as: being President of the British Association of International and Comparative Education (BAICE) in the year 1999-2000; the Cyril O Houle World Award for Adult Education Literature from the American Association of Adult and Continuing Education; on two occasions; the Comenius Award - International ESVA Foundation (Outstanding Adult Educator in Europe - First Holder); he was also the first non-North American to be elected to the International Hall of Fame of Adult and Continuing Education in USA, which is located in University of Oklahoma. He was also awarded a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science research fellowship at the University of Tokyo. He was Noted Scholar at the University of British Columbia, and has been a Visiting Professor at the universities of Ljubljana, Pedagogical University of Tallinn, Tennessee, Alaska at Anchorage and Maryland. He is an honorary member of a number of Professional Associations in different parts of the world. Additionally, Peter has also been involved in writing a number of research reports ranging from curriculum evaluation in nursing to older people mentoring in the workplace. He has been grant holder for a number of research projects.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Now in its fourth edition, Adult Education and Lifelong Learning is well established, and is regarded as the most widely used text about adult education. Fully revised and updated with substantial additional material, this new edition takes account of many changes which have occurred in the...
Published February 9th 2010 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...
Published May 31st 2009 by Routledge
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 September 10th 2008 by Routledge
Series: Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society
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. Five themes run through this book: Humankind has always been aware of the imperfections of human society: as a consequence, it has...
Published June 9th 2008 by Routledge
Series: Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society
This book critically assesses the learning that is required and provided within a learning society and gives a detailed sociological analysis of the emerging role of lifelong learning with examples from around the globe. Divided into three clear parts the book: looks at the development of the...
Published January 24th 2007 by Routledge
An introduction to the techniques, contemporary theories and methods of teaching from facilitating problem-based learning to the role of the lecture, this book explores the issues that underpin interpersonal methods of teaching, and offers genuine insights. It will help teachers...
Published July 5th 2006 by Routledge
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 2005 by Routledge
Learning is among the most basic of human activities. The study of, and research into, learning forms a central part of educational studies. The well-respected and established authors, Jarvis and Parker, not only focus on the psychological processes of human learning, but they also examine the...
Published May 25th 2005 by Routledge
Learning is among the most basic of human activities. The study of learning, and research into learning is becoming a central part of educational studies. This is a comprehensive introduction to contemporary theories and modern practices of learning. Updated and expanded, this second edition should...
Published January 31st 2003 by Routledge
Containing over 5000 essential references to people, organisations, words and concepts in the field of adult education, this thorough and comprehensive volume represents the standard reference for anyone seeking information on the education of adults....
Published January 31st 1999 by Routledge
Discussing such themes as democracy and citizenship, this book is the first systematic attempt to analyse adult education from a political perspective....
Published June 9th 1993 by Routledge
Peter Jarvis's most recent work is editing the ‘The Routledge International Handbook of Lifelong Learning’ .This authoritative volume, essential reading for academics in the field of Lifelong Learning, examines the complexities of the subject within a systematic global framework and places it in its socio-historic context. It provides a disciplined and complete overview of lifelong learning internationally.
Also published this year, was his third book in The Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society Trilogy - Democracy, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society. In this volume Peter addresses the issues that arise from the vision of the learning society. The book concludes that since human beings continue to learn, so the learning society must be a process within the incomplete project of humanity. With the release of this final volume, Peter completes his comprehensive, multi-disciplinary study of lifelong learning and the learning society. Between them, the three volumes analyse every aspect of learning, from the fundamental psychology of the human drive to learn, to the global sociological apparatus in which learning takes place. The other two books in this series are Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Human Learning and Globalization, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society.
Next year, Routledge will be publishing his work ‘Learning to be a Person in Society’, a book which offers understanding of human learning, reaching beyond established research to the complexities that make us who we are.
Peter serves on editorial boards of a number of journals in different parts of the world. He is the founding editor of The International Journal of Lifelong Education, which he has edited for nearly thirty years. He is also involved with Adult Education Quarterly in the USA, Comparative Education and Nurse Education Today.
