Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: peter jarvis

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  • ADULT EDUCATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING
    PETER JARVIS
    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 ...

    $800.00

  • PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION (1983)
    PETER JARVIS
    Published in 1983. The concept of education has generally been assumed to relate to childhood and it is only with more recent developments in the field of adult learning that it has been recognised that education can take place at any stage in life. One of the main intentions of this book is to examine the concept of education from the perspective of the education of people in ...

    $1,000.00

  • EAST AND WEST IN COMPARATIVE EDUCATION
    SOONGHEE HAN AND 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 thi...

    $1,380.00

  • THE SECRET LIFE OF CITIES
    HELEN JARVIS / ANDY C. PRATT / PETER CHENG-CHONG WU
    Contemporary urbanisation has two faces: global flows of people, money and information, and that of localised social and economic disparities. Recent research has focused on the headlines of global cities as control centres of the world economy, and social and economic shock waves that have raged through cities and regions, but less attention has been paid to the secret life of...

    $1,760.00

  • THE AGE OF LEARNING
    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. ...

    $1,280.00

  • INQUIRY INTO THE FUTURE OF LIFELONG LEARNING IN THE UK
    JARVIS, PETER
    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 t...

    $1,120.00

  • UNIVERSITIES AND CORPORATE UNIVERSITIES
    PETER JARVIS
    An exploration of the world of higher education and higher learning, and its relationship to the corporate world and the global learning society. Peter Jarvis synthesizes developments in HE, training and corporate research and development in order to map the future of learning and training. ...

    $1,280.00

  • THE ESSENTIAL TV DIRECTOR'S HANDBOOK
    PETER JARVIS
    The Essential TV Director's Handbook is written by an ex-BBC trainer with a great deal of experience in the world of television. It describes step-by-step how to prepare and direct every familiar type of common programme format including interviews, discussions, reportage, music and dramatisations shot either on location or in the multi-camera studio. It is the essential refere...

    $1,540.00

  • LEARNING IN LATER LIFE
    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. ...

    $1,540.00

  • FROM ADULT EDUCATION TO THE LEARNING SOCIETY
    PETER JARVIS
    This unique text provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in adult education and lifelong learning. It includes more than twenty-five seminal articles from the first two decades of the International Journal of Lifelong Education, written by leading authors in the field from the UK, the USA, Australia and Europe. Compiled to show the development of the field,...

    $860.00

  • TOWARDS A COMPREHENSIVE THEORY OF HUMAN LEARNING
    PETER JARVIS
    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...

    $1,540.00

  • LEARNING TO BE A PERSON IN SOCIETY
    PETER JARVIS
    Learning is a lifelong process and we are the result of our own learning. But how exactly do we learn to be a person through living? In this book, Peter Jarvis draws together all the aspects of becoming a person into the framework of learning. Considering the ongoing, "nature versus nurture" debate over how we become people, Jarvis’s study of nurture - what learning is primaril...

    $1,340.00

  • TEACHING, LEARNING AND EDUCATION IN LATE MODERNITY
    PETER JARVIS
    Professor 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 educati...

    $1,540.00

  • ADULT LEARNING IN THE SOCIAL CONTEXT
    PETER JARVIS
    This book is a logical progression from The Sociology of Adult and Continuing Education. The author takes a completely new approach to the subject and puts forward a model of adult learning which is analysed in depth. This model arises from the results of a research project in which adults analysed their own learning experiences. ...

    $1,480.00

  • PARADOXES OF LEARNING
    PETER JARVIS
    As more is discovered about the powerful impact of lifelong learning on adults, educators are changing their views about how, when and where we learn. Learning is no longer defined only in the context of formal educational settings but in social context as well – including families, the workplace, and religious and political groups. This book explores how learning is our lifeti...

    $1,500.00

  • THE SOCIOLOGY OF ADULT & CONTINUING EDUCATION
    PETER JARVIS
    This book provides a comprehensive sociological overview of adult and continuing education. It draws on all branches of sociology rather than advocating one approach. It examines the theories of all the significant sociological writers in the field such as Knowles, Marx, Freire and Gramsci and sets them in the broader intellectual context. It also considers the content of the c...

    $1,460.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF LIFELONG LEARNING
    JARVIS, PETER
    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 learn...

    $2,060.00

  • DEMOCRACY, LIFELONG LEARNING AND THE LEARNING SOCIETY
    PETER JARVIS
    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. Five themes run through this book: Humankind has always been aware of the imperfections of human society: as a consequence, it has looked back to a mythological past and forward to a utopian future that might be religi...

    $1,540.00

  • GLOBALIZATION, LIFELONG LEARNING AND THE LEARNING SOCIETY
    PETER JARVIS
    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 fo...

    $1,540.00

  • THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING
    JARVIS, PETER
    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...

    $1,380.00

  • HUMAN LEARNING
    JARVIS, PETER / PARKER, STELLA
    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, thi...

    $1,200.00

  • ADULT EDUCATION AND THE STATE
    PETER JARVIS
    Adult education has frequently assumed a political role in society and also has itself been regarded as a social movement. This book, however, is the first systematic attempt to analyse it from the perspective of political theory. The author locates the education of adults within current political theory - something which has become even more relevant since the Conservative gov...

    $1,240.00

  • AN INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY OF ADULT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION
    PETER JARVIS
    Containing over 5000 essential references to people, organisations, words and concepts in the field of adult education, this thorough and comprehensive volume represents the standard reference for anyone seeking information on the education of adults. ...

    $860.00

  • THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LEARNING
    PETER JARVIS
    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...

    $5,100.00

  • TWENTIETH CENTURY THINKERS IN ADULT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION
    JARVIS PETER
    An examination of the work of 17 major thinkers in the field of adult and continuing education, showing how each has made a significant contribution to the field. The ideas of each are explored within a similar framework, and their work and its consequences is considered in detail. ...

    $1,160.00