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  • Adult Education and Lifelong Learning

    Theory and Practice

    by Peter Jarvis ...
    Series series Routledge Education Classic Edition
    Adult Education and Lifelong Learning is regarded as one of the most widely used textbooks about adult education.Now part of the Routledge Education Classic Edition series, this key title combines the practical and philosophical to cover all areas related to the topic, including how we understand people as learners, how to teach adults, curriculum planning, distance education and assessment. It ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Theory and Practice of Teaching

    Edited by Peter Jarvis ...
    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 at all levels to understand the techniques that they can use in different situations, and willenable them to develop ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Human Learning

    An Holistic Approach

    Edited by Peter Jarvis, Stella Parker ...
    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 importance of the relationship between the body and the mind. For the first time, this book considers how ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Age of Learning

    Education and the Knowledge Society

    Edited by Peter Jarvis ...
    A multidisciplinary analysis of learning in contemporary society. It analyzes both the meaning and the place of these strands that make up modern education and offers an overview of the part they play in the work of all educators, trainers, teachers and course developers. ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Palgrave International Handbook on Adult and Lifelong Education and Learning

    Edited by Richard Waller, John Holford, Sue Webb, Peter Jarvis, Marcella Milana ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This Handbook provides a wide-ranging frame of reference for researching adult and lifelong education and learning. With contributions from scores of established and newer scholars from six continents, the volume covers a diverse range of geopolitical and social territories across the world.Drawing on the multiple heritages that underpin research on education and learning in adulthood, this ... Read more

    $242.09 USD

  • East and West in Comparative Education

    Searching for New Perspectives

    Edited by Soong Hee Han, Peter Jarvis ...
    Sparked by global capitalism’s demand for new knowledge and new commodities, as well as new logistical systems to deliver them, the nature of education has changed significantly. Universities, in striving to become a part of this knowledge society, have focused on responding to these demands, at the expense of the humanities and social sciences.The dominance of this way of thinking, primarily a ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Inquiry into the Future of Lifelong Learning in the UK

    An International Analysis

    Edited by Peter Jarvis ...
    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 by some of the world’s leading scholars. It provides an excellent introduction to significant ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Training Adult Educators in Western Europe

    Edited by Peter Jarvis, Alan Chadwick ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Adult Education
    Originally published in 1991 this book is a comparative study of systems of preparing adult educators in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Cyprus. The book argues for more formal preparation and training of adult educators with more Europe-wide specialist training and evaluation in teaching and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Human Learning

    by Peter Jarvis ...
    Series series Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society
    As interest grows in theories of lifelong learning not only across society but also as an area of serious academic study, the need has arisen for a thorough and critical study of the phenomenon. This distillation of the work of renowned writer Peter Jarvis addresses this need, looking at the processes involved in human learning from birth to old age and moving the field on from previous ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Pelagic Dictionary of Natural History of the British Isles

    Descriptions of all Species with a Common Name

    by Dr. Peter Jarvis ...
    A unique collection of concise but detailed information on 10,000 animals, plants, fungi and algae of the British Isles. Every species with an English common name is included.The compendium is in two parts. The first, smaller part, looks at various terms that people interested in natural history may come across. The second provides information on individual species or species groups, with entries ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Architectural Illustration

    by Peter Jarvis ...
    This practical book looks at the fundamental principles that underpin the process of architectural illustration: to represent architectural design and the built environment in a way that the general public can understand. Focusing particularly on watercolour, it explains the full process from site sketching to finished rendering. Case studies follow the process of an illustration, using ... Read more

    $20.09 USD

  • Learning in Later Life

    An Introduction for Educators and Carers

    by Peter Jarvis ...
    An analysis of learning throughout the whole of life. Written as a text for both educators and carers, it demonstrates how the learning process works through life and how learning at all stages of life is best achieved. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD