How exactly do we learn to be a person through living? In this book, Peter Jarvis demonstrates the ways in which we become social human beings. It will appeal to a wide variety of audiences involved in the study of learning and development.

Peter Jarvis is an internationally renowned expert in the fields of lifelong learning, adult and continuing education and is founding editor of the International Journal of Lifelong Education (Taylor & Francis). He is Professor of Continuing Education at the University of Surrey (where he was the former head of the Department of Educational Studies) and is a former Adjunct Professor in the Department of Adult Education, University of Georgia, USA. He also holds honorary visiting professorships at City University (UK), Pecs University (Hungary) and Tianjin Radio and Television University (China), and is Special Professor at the University of Nottingham. Peter is a prolific author, whose recent publications include: The Routledge International Handbook of Lifelong Learning; Democracy, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society; and Globalization, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society (winner of the 2008 Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education).

Section 1: Laying the Foundations 1. The Person in Society 2. Learning in Society 3. Learning in Early Childhood 4. Practical Living 5. Experience 6. Meaning Section 2: Learning Processes 7. Experiencing 8. Perceiving 9. Thinking 10. Knowing 11. Believing 12. Feeling - Emotion 13. Doing 14. Interacting 15. Valuing 16. Positioning Section 3: Being and Becoming 17. Becoming 18. Being