The Learning Adult

Introduction: Local and global in the formation of a learning theorist: Peter Jarvis and adult educationJohn Holford Part I: UNDERSTANDING LEARNING 1. Paradoxes of a Long Life Learning: an Exploration of Peter Jarvis's Contribution to Experiential Learning TheoryMartin Dyke 2. Peter Jarvis and the understanding of adult learningKnud Illeris 3. The promise of lifelong learningPatricia A. Gouthro 4. A critique of Peter Jarvis's conceptualisation of the lifelong learner in the contemporary cultural contextRichard G. Bagnall Part II: LEARNING & THE MEANING OF LIFE 5. (Critical) learning in/through everyday life in a global consumer cultureRobin Redmon Wright and Jennifer A. Sandlin 6. Learning is an ontological process: Jarvis and theories of Christian Religious Education in dialogueAlison Le Cornu 7. Opening spaces of conversation: citizen education for newcomers as a democratic practiceDanny Wildemeersch Part III: ADULT EDUCATION, CITIZENSHIP & DEMOCRACY 8. Resisting the enormous condescension of posterity: Richard Henry Tawney, Raymond Williams and the long struggle for a democratic educationLinden West 9. Decoding the neoliberal subjectivity in self-helping adult learnersMoosung Lee 10. International organisations and the construction of the learning active citizen: Ananalysis of adult learning policy documents from a Durkheimian perspectiveJohn Field and Michael Schemmann Part IV: GLOBAL & LOCAL 11. Wide horizons and blurred boundaries: comparative perspectives on adult and lifelong learningLore Arthur and Michael Crossley 12. Globalisation in Africa: reflecting on Peter Jarvis's superstructure and substructure modelJulia Preece 13. Chinese students speak about their favourite teachers and university reformRoger Boshier 14. The rise and fall of life-wide learning for adults in EnglandAlan Tuckett