Personal Information

Biography

Name:

• Peter Jarvis

 

Nationality:

• British

 

Recent Positions:         

• Professor of Continuing Education, University of Surrey
• Hon Visiting Professor (City University)
• Adjust Professor (University of Georgia)

 

Areas and Length of Expertise:

• Lifelong Learning/Education – theory, practice and policy
• Adult Education
• Ethics and Values in Education
• Educational gerontology
• Lifelong learning and religion

 

Recent research, development and consultancy and organisations:

• Panel member assessing proposals for Centres of Excellence in Research in the Social Sciences for the New Zealand Royal Society
• Assessor of Research Proposals Hong Kong University Grants Committee
• Assessor of Research Proposals – Australian Research Committee
• Frequent lecturer/teacher internationally
• Chair, local University of the Third Age

 

Qualifications, Recognitions, Positions, Memberships:

• M.Soc.Sc, (Birmingham) BA(Econ) (Sheffield) BD (London) PhD (Aston) DLitt (Surrey) DSc (Hon) (City) DPhil (Hon) (Helsinki) EdD (Hon) Prof.Univ(Hon) (Pecs) FRSA
• Elected Individual Member of Standing Conference of University Teachers and Researchers in Education of Adults
• Member of the Board of International ESVA Foundation

 

 

Selected Publications:

• Amongst the 30 or more books written and edited the following are the most recent:
• Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Human Learning (Routledge 2006)
• Globalisation, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society: sociological perspectives (Routledge, 2007)
• Democracy, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society in a late modern society (Routledge, 2008)
• The Routledge International Handbook on Lifelong Learning (Routledge, 2008) (editor)
• Human Learning (joint editor)
• The Age of Learning
• Theory and Practice of Teaching (editor)
• Theory and Practice of Learning (joint author)
• Adult Education and Lifelong Learning: Theory and Practice
• Adult and Continuing Education: major themes (5 vols) (editor)
• Founding Editor of International Journal of Lifelong Education
• Chairman of Board of Editors of Comparative Education
• Editorial and Advisory Boards of journals in Europe, USA and Asia

History

Member for

2 years 25 weeks