LLinE Lifelong Learning in Europe

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Peter Jarvis

BA(Sheff), BD(Lond), MSocSc(Birm), PhD(Aston), HonDPhil(Helsinki), FRSA, Professor of Continuing Education

Peter Jarvis is currently chair of the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning in the School (where he was previously Head of Department of Educational Studies) and 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) in the year 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, which is located in University of Oklahoma. 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, Pedagogical University of Tallinn, Tennessee, Alaska at Anchorage and Maryland. He is also a frequent speaker, lecturer and consultant on all aspects of lifelong learning throughout the world (full list of addresses and venues available).

He has written and edited over twenty books and about 150 papers and chapters in books on adult education and learning, continuing professional education, nurse education, primary school education, distance education, third age education. He has also been involved in writing a number of research reports ranging from curriculum evaluation in nursing to older people mentoring in the workplace. Recently, he has been grant holder for two research projects Towards the Learning City (published by the Corporation of London) and Older People at Work: the Elder Mentor. He serves on editorial boards of a number of journals in different parts of the world including Adult Education Quarterly in the USA, Comparative Education, and he is an assessor for Nurse Education Today. He is the founding editor of The International Journal of Lifelong Education, which he has edited for nearly twenty years.