The Routledge International Handbook of Learning

As our understanding of learning focuses on the whole person rather than individual aspects of learning, so the process of learning is beginning to be studied from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines. This handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary research into learning: it brings together a diverse range of specialities with chapters written by leading scholars throughout the world from a wide variety of different approaches. The International Handbook of Learning captures the complexities of the learning process in seven major parts. Its 54 chapters are sub-divided in seven parts:

    • Learning and the person: senses, cognitions, emotions, personality traits and learning styles
    • Learning across the lifespan
    • Life-wide learning
    • Learning across the disciplines: covering everything from anthropology to neuroscience
    • Meaning systems’ interpretation
    • Learning and disability
    • Historical and contemporary learning theorists.

Written by international experts, this book is the first comprehensive multi-disciplinary analysis of learning, packing a diverse collection of research into one accessible volume.

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The Routledge International Handbook of Learning

As our understanding of learning focuses on the whole person rather than individual aspects of learning, so the process of learning is beginning to be studied from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines. This handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary research into learning: it brings together a diverse range of specialities with chapters written by leading scholars throughout the world from a wide variety of different approaches. The International Handbook of Learning captures the complexities of the learning process in seven major parts. Its 54 chapters are sub-divided in seven parts:

    • Learning and the person: senses, cognitions, emotions, personality traits and learning styles
    • Learning across the lifespan
    • Life-wide learning
    • Learning across the disciplines: covering everything from anthropology to neuroscience
    • Meaning systems’ interpretation
    • Learning and disability
    • Historical and contemporary learning theorists.

Written by international experts, this book is the first comprehensive multi-disciplinary analysis of learning, packing a diverse collection of research into one accessible volume.

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The Routledge International Handbook of Learning

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Overview

As our understanding of learning focuses on the whole person rather than individual aspects of learning, so the process of learning is beginning to be studied from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines. This handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary research into learning: it brings together a diverse range of specialities with chapters written by leading scholars throughout the world from a wide variety of different approaches. The International Handbook of Learning captures the complexities of the learning process in seven major parts. Its 54 chapters are sub-divided in seven parts:

    • Learning and the person: senses, cognitions, emotions, personality traits and learning styles
    • Learning across the lifespan
    • Life-wide learning
    • Learning across the disciplines: covering everything from anthropology to neuroscience
    • Meaning systems’ interpretation
    • Learning and disability
    • Historical and contemporary learning theorists.

Written by international experts, this book is the first comprehensive multi-disciplinary analysis of learning, packing a diverse collection of research into one accessible volume.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781136598555
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/15/2011
Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 602
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Peter Jarvis is Professor of Continuing Education at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.

Mary Watts is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at City University, London, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Learning – an overview

Part 1 Learning and the Person

  1. Senses
  2. Cognitions
  3. Skills and roles
  4. Emotions
  5. Embodiment
  6. Gender
  7. Identity
  8. Personality, Personality Traits and Learning Styles
  9. Non-learning

Part 2 Learning across the Lifespan

  1. Prenatal and the First Year
  2. Early Childhood
  3. The School Years
  4. Adolescence
  5. Adulthood
  6. Mid-life
  7. Older Adults
  8. Biography
  9. Development

Part 3 Learning across the Disciplines

  1. Philosophy
  2. Ethics e.g. indoctrination, socialisation
  3. Psychology – cognitive and evolutionary
  4. Sociology
  5. Anthropology
  6. Politics
  7. Geography/Cultural differences
  8. Biology – evolution and genetics
  9. Pharmacology
  10. Neuroscience
  11. Physiology

Part 4 Meaning Systems’ Interpretation

  1. Buddhist
  2. Christian
  3. Confucianism
  4. Hindu
  5. Islamic
  6. Jewish

Part 5 Learning Sites

  1. Informal learning - everyday living
  2. Formal learning – school
  3. Non-formal learning – work
  4. Learning and the inter-relationship of the sites of learning in everyday living
  5. Self-directed learning
  6. e-learning

Part 6 Learning and Disability

  1. Physical disabilities
  2. Autism, dyslexia and dyscalculia and other learning difficulties

Part 7 Historical and Contemporary Learning Theorists

  1. Pavlov, Watson, Skinner
  2. Piaget
  3. Vigotsky
  4. Dewey
  5. Bruner
  6. Gardner
  7. Jarvis
  8. Illeris
  9. Mezirow
  10. Engestrom

Concluding Discussion

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