Professor Peter Jarvis
Professor of Continuing Education
Qualifications: BA (Sheffield), BD (London), MSocSc (Birmingham), PhD (Aston), D.Litt (Surrey), HonDPhil (Helsinki), D.Univ (Hons) (Pecs), DSc (Hons) (City University), D Univ (Hons) (Hellenic Open University) FRSA, DEd (Hons) (Fairfax) but later discovered that the university was not accredited to award doctorates!
Email: p.jarvis@surrey.ac.uk
Phone: Work: 01483 68 6152
Room no: 15 AC 05
Further information
Biography
Peter Jarvis is a former head of the Department of Educational Studies and is a former Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Adult Education, University of Georgia, USA. He holds honorary visiting professorships in City University (UK), Pecs University (Hungary)) and Tianjin Radio and Television University Chibna). He is also a Special Professor at the University of Nottingham. 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; on two occasions; 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 an honorary member of a number of Professional Associations in different parts of the world. He is also a frequent speaker on all aspects of adult education, distance learning and lifelong learning throughout the world (full list of addresses and venues available).
Publications
He has written and edited well over 30 books and 200 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. He has been grant holder for a number of research projects. 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, the Editorial Board of which he chaired for five years 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 thirty years.
Teaching
He has held seveval part-time positions in and taught social sciences for the British Open University for thirty years.