In this exceptional collection of texts that have had a significant impact on the scientific field of learning, sixteen world-renowned experts (Jarvis, Mezirow, Gardner, Bruner, Tennant, and others) present their understanding of the nature of human learning and how it occurs.

Knud Illeris has selected chapters that explain both the complex frameworks within which learning takes place and its more specific aspects. Each expert contributes either a fundamental text or a completely new overview of the cognitive framework they have developed after long-term study.

By clarifying the central concepts of learning, modern Learning Theories constitute a book ...