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 be of interest to teachers, facilitators, human resource developers and students of education. The contents cover: lifelong learning; the social background to learning; cognitivist theory; types of learning; learning using ICT; and philosophical reflections on learning.
Learning is among the most basic of human activities. The study of learning, and research into learning is becoming a central part of educational s...
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.
This is a book with a difference: it produces a completely new perspective on lifelong learning and the learning society and locates them within hu...
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 a wide variety of audiences involved in the study of learning and development.
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 wil...
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 and the book emanates from there, pointing to the social context beyond the learner. Up-to-the-minute syntheses from many of the leading international experts in the field give vital snapshots of this rapidly evolving subject from wide-ranging perspectives including:
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As lifelong learning grows in popularity, few comprehensive pictures of the phenomenon have emerged. The Routledge International Handbook of Li...
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...
This book concentrates on the processes of human learning. But research into learning itself has been unsystematic and, for a while, mainly psychologi...
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 knowledge economy
provides a critique of lifelong learning and the learning society
focuses on the changing nature of research in the learning society.
The author, well-known and highly respected in this field, examines how lifelong learning and the...
This book critically assesses the learning that is required and provided within a learning society and gives a detailed sociological analysis of th...
An introduction to the techniques, theories and methods of teaching from facilitating problem-based learning to the role of lectures, this book explores the issues that underpin interpersonal methods of teaching. It contains material on e-moderating (teaching online), issues surrounding discipline and teaching, and ethical dimensions of teaching.
An introduction to the techniques, theories and methods of teaching from facilitating problem-based learning to the role of lectures, this book explor...
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 learning: it brings together a diverse range of specialities with chapters written by leading scholars throughout the world from a wide variety of different approaches. The International Handbook of Learning captures the complexities of the learning process in seven major parts. Its 54 chapters are...
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...
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, nurse education, primary school education, distance education and third age education.
In Teaching, Learning and Education in Late Modernity, he brings together 19 key writings in one place. Beginning with a specially written Introduction, which gives an overview of Peter s career and contextualises his...
Peter Jarvis has spent over 30 years researching, thinking and writing about some of the key and enduring issues in education. He has contributed w...
