Globalization, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society

The Educational Disadvantage Centre, St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra will host  a public lecture by Professor Peter Jarvis on Globalization, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society.

Date: Thursday 7th February 2008 at 6pm

Venue: St Patrick’s College Drumcondra – Room E201

Professor Peter Jarvis of the University of Surrey is the former Head of the Department of Educational Studies and is Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Adult Education, University of Georgia, USA.  He has received a variety of academic honours, such as: being President of the British Association of International and Comparative Education (BAICE) 1999-2000; the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Adult Education Literature from the American Association of Adult and Continuing Education; the Comenius Award - International ESVA Foundation (Outstanding Adult Educator in Europe – First Holder).  He was also the first non-North American to be elected to the International Hall of Fame of Adult and Continuing Education in USA.  He was also awarded a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science research fellowship at the University of Tokyo.  He was Noted Scholar at the University of British Columbia, and has been a Visiting Professor at the universities of Ljubljana, Tallinn, Tennessee, Alaska at Anchorage and Maryland.

Professor Jarvis is the author of a wide number of books on lifelong learning including Globalization, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society: Sociological Perspectives: 2 (Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society) published in 2007 by Routledge.

The talk will coincide with the launch of the National Report on Lifelong Learning in Ireland -LLL2010: Sub-Project 1: Towards a Lifelong Learning Society written by Dr Catherine Maunsell, Dr Paul Downes & Ms Valerie McLoughlin. This report is funded by the E.U. 6th Framework Project.

Please contact Valerie McLoughlin, Administrator, Educational Disadvantage Centre, St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Tel:  +353-1-8842021; e-mail: valerie.mcloughlin@spd.dcu.ie by Monday 4th February if you wish to attend as places are limited.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updated: Monday January 07 2008