Adult and Continuing Education: Adult education - viewed from the disciplines

Peter Jarvis, Colin Griffin

Taylor & Francis, 2003 - Education - 488 pages

Depicting the ways that adult education has evolved as society has changed and how it has been incorporated into lifelong learning, this is a truly unique set that puts a stamp on an exciting field and important, far-reaching issues. These five volumes represent a great advance to scholars, as this is the first comprehensive overview of the field.
The set draws on books, journals, reports and historical papers to map the vast field of education for adults. The writings included in the set have influenced the development of both the practice and the study of adult education from the Guilds to vocational education, distance learning and leisure learning. The collection also covers the recent emergence of corporations as new providers of education for adults with the corporate classroom, corporate universities and consultancies.
A detailed index and new introduction by the editor will help the reader navigate this wealth of diverse material.

Contents

• ADULT EDUCATION VIEWED FROM: 1
• What is an educational process?: 7
• a philosophical: 18
• Introduction to Part 3: 59
• Preface to The Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties: 73
• The science of learning and the art of teaching: 96
• A conception of adult development: 127
• Introduction to Part 5: 153
• Cultural reproduction and social reproduction: 173
• 3: 176
• Social capital in the creation of human capital: 196
• Legislators and interpreters: 220
• Introduction to Part 6: 243
• PART 2: 251
• Education vouchers: 260
• Ethics: 277
• Introduction to Part 8: 295
• ideals realities and paradoxes: 311
• Lifelong learning and social democracy: 325
• Introduction to Part 9: 345
• Toward a conceptual framework for the comparative study: 353
• Comparative studies in adult and lifelong education: 366
• Pressures on a marginal program: 379
• Index: 409
• The rational resources of the individual for social living: 412
• Being and having: 433

Bibliographic information

• Title: Adult and Continuing Education: Adult education - viewed from the disciplines; Adult and continuing education : major themes in education; Major Themes Series; Major Themes in Education Series
• Editors: Peter Jarvis, Colin Griffin
• Contributor: Peter Jarvis
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 2003
• ISBN: 0415282470, 9780415282475
• Length: 488 pages
• Subjects: Education / Adult & Continuing Education; Education / General; Education / Reference