Introduction: Learning – an overview

Part 1 Learning and the Person

Senses

Cognitions

Skills and roles

Emotions

Embodiment

Gender

Identity

Personality, Personality Traits and Learning Styles

Non-learning

Part 2 Learning across the Lifespan

Prenatal and the First Year

Early Childhood

The School Years

Adolescence

Adulthood

Mid-life

Older Adults

Biography

Development

Part 3 Learning across the Disciplines

Philosophy

Ethics e.g. indoctrination, socialisation

Psychology – cognitive and evolutionary

Sociology

Anthropology

Politics

Geography/Cultural differences

Biology – evolution and genetics

Pharmacology

Neuroscience

Physiology

Part 4 Meaning Systems’ Interpretation

Buddhist

Christian

Confucianism

Hindu

Islamic

Jewish

Part 5 Learning Sites

Informal learning - everyday living

Formal learning – school

Non-formal learning – work

Learning and the inter-relationship of the sites of learning in everyday living

Self-directed learning

e-learning

Part 6 Learning and Disability

Physical disabilities

Autism, dyslexia and dyscalculia and other learning difficulties

Part 7 Historical and Contemporary Learning Theorists

Pavlov, Watson, Skinner

Piaget

Vigotsky

Dewey

Bruner

Gardner

Jarvis

Illeris

Mezirow

Engestrom

Concluding Discussion

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.

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