Public Lecture by Professor Peter Jarvis

A public lecture by Professor Peter Jarvis on 'Globalization, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society' took place on Thursday 7th February 2008, organised by the Educational Disadvantage Centre, St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra.  A number of wide ranging themes were explored in relation to future directions for lifelong learning and society beyond modernist assumptions of individualism.  Professor Jarvis highlighted the injustices of global inequality and the need for education of the future to incorporate the social, interpersonal and communal dimensions to self.  He highlighted that advertising was already one form of informal learning and the need to engage with other forms of informal learning was vital at all levels of the educational system.

Dr Paul Downes, Prof Peter Jarvis, Ms Valerie McLoughlin & Dr Catherine Maunsell.

Professor Jarvis of the University of Surrey is the author of over thirty 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. 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.

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updated: Monday February 18 2008