Author: Peter Jarvis
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: learning, perspectives, volume, sociological, society, lifelong, globalization
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-04-04
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 0415355435
ISBN-13: 9780415355438

Author: Peter Jarvis
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: educ, cont, adult, theme, major
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2004-11-11
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0415130298
ISBN-13: 9780415130295

Author: Peter Jarvis
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: teaching, practice, theory
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-08-18
List price: $52.95
ISBN-10: 0415365252
ISBN-13: 9780415365253

This book is a comprehensive introduction for educators wanting to understand the techniques, contemporary theories and methods of teaching - from facilitating problem-based learning to the role of the lecture. It explores the issues that underpin interpersonal methods of teaching, and offers genuine insights through a broad and multi-disciplinary perspective on these methods. It will help teachers at all levels to understand the techniques that they can call upon at different times and situations, and will help to develop more effective teaching practice.This fully updated second edition cont

Author: Peter Jarvis
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: learning, lifelong, volume, society, human, comprehensive, theory, towards
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2006-01-13
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 0415355419
ISBN-13: 9780415355414

In recent years the idea of lifelong learning and the learning society has become central to both society and to everyone involved in education throughout the world but, as yet, no truly exhaustive study has been made of these phenomena. This ground-breaking distillation of Peter Jarvis’ thoughts on lifelong learning will comprehensively correct that omission.This book, the first in a forthcoming series, concentrates on the processes of human learning and considers the fact that research into learning itself has hitherto been unsystematic and, for a while, mainly psychological. In the fi

Author: Peter Jarvis
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: learning, lifelong, society, human, comprehensive, theory, towards
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2005-12-19
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 0415355400
ISBN-13: 9780415355407

In recent years the idea of lifelong learning and the learning society has become central to both society and to everyone involved in education throughout the world but, as yet, no truly exhaustive study has been made of these phenomena. This ground-breaking distillation of Peter Jarvis’ thoughts on lifelong learning will comprehensively correct that omission.This book, the first in a forthcoming series, concentrates on the processes of human learning and considers the fact that research into learning itself has hitherto been unsystematic and, for a while, mainly psychological. In the fi

Author: Peter Jarvis
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: theory, practice, learning, lifelong, education, adult
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2004-08-13
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 0415314925
ISBN-13: 9780415314923

This is the third edition of Peter Jarvis’ classic textbook, Adult and Continuing Education, which established itself as the most widely used and respected book about education for adults today. In this new edition, the author has made extensive revisions and included substantial additional material to take account of the many changes that have occurred in the field of adult education.Additional and updated material in this much-anticipated new edition includes: a discussion on both globalisation and Europeanisation, indicating the pressures that have been exerted on the educational s

Author: Peter Jarvis
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: teaching, practice, amp, theory
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 0749434090
ISBN-13: 9780749434090

This book will introduce all teachers, be they in schools, colleges or universities, to the variety of approaches and techniques, theories and methods of teaching. While many trained teachers are grounded in the theory of teaching, this training can often be relatively limited in scope, or focused on current/most popular techniques. Many other teachers, in colleges or universities, have no formal training. This book looks in detail at the many teaching techniques that can be called upon at different times and in different situations, and how they can be used successfully. This is an essenti