Age of Learning

Peter Jarvis is Professor of Continuing Education at the University of Surrey, UK. He heads the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning at Surrey, in the Department of Education Studies, where all of the other authors are based.

• Part One The Emergence of the Learning Society; Chapter 1 The emerging idea, Linda Merricks; Chapter 2 Social, economic and political contexts, Stephen McNair; Chapter 3 The changing educational scene, Peter Jarvis; Part Two Learning and The Learning Society; Chapter 4 From education policy to lifelong learning strategies, Colin Griffin; Chapter 5 The learning society, Colin Griffin, Bob Brownhill; Chapter 6 Lifelong Learning, Bob Brownhill; Part Three The Mechanics of the Learning Society; Chapter 7 Paying for the age of learning, Stephen McNair; Chapter 8 Work-related learning, Paul Tosey, Stephen McNair; Chapter 9 Facilitating access to learning: educational and vocational guidance, Julia Preece; Part Four Implications of the Learning Society; Chapter 10 Implications of the learning society for education beyond school, Linda Merricks; Chapter 11 The school in the age of learning, John Holford, Gill Nicholls; Chapter 12 Corporations and professions, Peter Jarvis, Paul Tosey; Chapter 13 Implications for the delivery of learning materials, John Holford, Tom Black; Chapter 14 Implications for including the socially excluded in the learning age, Julia Preece; Part Five Reflections on the Age of Learning; Chapter 15 The public recognition of learning, Peter Jarvis; Chapter 16 Questioning the learning society, Peter Jarvis; Chapter 17 Civil society and citizenship in a learning age, John Holford; Chapter 18 Future directions for the learning society, Peter Jarvis, Julia Preece;