Peter Jarvis

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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

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