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This chapter examines Peter Jarvis’s contribution to comparative education and the development of this in the arenas of adult and lifelong learning. Adult teaching and learning was at the heart of almost all of Peter Jarvis’s work for close to 50 years – a period in time when the increasing demands of the global market economy have changed adult education beyond all recognition. Peter Jarvis’s greatest strengths were his deep theoretical thinking, a desire to expand and develop existing theoretical frameworks, and efforts to push prevailing thoughts across new boundaries. Peter Jarvis wrote and talked about adult education, lifelong learning, globalisation, and the learning society long before these became established topics in the wider domain of mainstream comparative education and the wider educational community. The rapidity of change ushered in by globalisation, Jarvis argued, also means that people and societies have to constantly adjust to new circumstances, hence the need for lifelong learning in the learning society. |
