Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Human Learning: Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society, Volume I

ISBN-13: 9780415355414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 236 str.

Peter Jarvis

Opis

This book concentrates on the processes of human learning. But research into learning itself has been unsystematic and, for a while, mainly psychological. In the first part of this volume the author argues that learning is existential, and so its study must be multi-disciplinary - an approach that will be assumed here. Since it is existential, it might be expected that all these different theories of learning should fit into the same model of learning - one that is applicable to the whole of life producing a more comprehensive understanding of learning, although it is acknowledged from the outset that a totally comprehensive theory is not possible. Consequently the second part of this volume will examine all the major theories of learning to see how and whether they can be combined, and at the same time to see how they criticise the theory of learning presented here.

Recenzje

'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

O autorze

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.