ABSTRACT

As our understanding of learning focuses on the whole person rather than individual aspects of learning, so the process of learning is beginning to be studied from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines. This handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary research into learning: it brings together a diverse range of specialities with chapters written by leading scholars throughout the world from a wide variety of different approaches. The International Handbook of Learning captures the complexities of the learning process in seven major parts. Its 54 chapters are sub-divided in seven parts:

    • Learning and the person: senses, cognitions, emotions, personality traits and learning styles
    • Learning across the lifespan
    • Life-wide learning
    • Learning across the disciplines: covering everything from anthropology to neuroscience
    • Meaning systems’ interpretation
    • Learning and disability
    • Historical and contemporary learning theorists.

Written by international experts, this book is the first comprehensive multi-disciplinary analysis of learning, packing a diverse collection of research into one accessible volume.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction: Human learning

part |1 pages

PART 1 Learning and the person

chapter 1|11 pages

Learning and the senses

chapter 2|10 pages

Learning and cognition

chapter 5|10 pages

Emotional intelligence

chapter 6|10 pages

Language and learning

chapter 8|9 pages

Learning and identity

chapter 10|6 pages

Non-learning

part |1 pages

PART 2 Learning across the lifespan

chapter 11|9 pages

Learning in early childhood

chapter 13|8 pages

Young people and learning

chapter 16|8 pages

The older adult in education

chapter 19|8 pages

Learning from our lives

chapter 20|10 pages

Psychological development

part |1 pages

PART 4 Learning and disability

part |1 pages

PART 5 Learning across the disciplines: human and social sciences

chapter 37|10 pages

Sociology and learning

chapter 38|9 pages

Anthropology and learning

chapter 39|17 pages

Learning in a complex world

chapter 42|8 pages

Evolution

chapter 43|14 pages

The brain and learning

chapter 45|13 pages

Pharmacology and learning

part |1 pages

PART 6 Learning and religious and meaning systems