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Knud Illeris

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1939-Present


 



 

 

Personal Data

He is a Danish scientist and professor of lifelong learning. He was born in 1939 and he started to his higher education career at the age of 27 (in 1966) when he left his job as a Travel agent. Until 1987, he was focused on academic and vocational youth education. In 1987, he shifted his career focus to adult education and general learning theory. He has given lectures, presentations and keynotes in 26 countries at five continents.

 

Education

He started studying psychology at the Copenhagen University with a focus on learning processes, at that time was accepted as both an MA and what corresponds nowadays to a Ph.D. He holds the equivalent of a doctorate in psychological research.

 

Employment

He has served as advisor to the Danish presidency of the European Union on the understanding of the policy of lifelong learning.

In 1972, he was attached as an associate professor to the new experimental Roskilde University

Since 2009 together with a colleague, he owns a private consultancy: Simonsen & Illeris Educational Consultants.

He is currently working at the Aarhus University, Denmark 

 

Awards and Honors

In 2005 Knud Illeris was made Honorary Adjunct Professor of Teachers College, Columbia UniversityNew York.

In 2006 he became a member of The International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame.

He received the Dutch Chris Argyris Award of Organizational Learning as the first to do so after Chris Argyris himself

In 2010 he received the Dutch Chris Argyris Award of Organizational Learning.

 In 2010 Routledge Education Author of the Month September

 

Membership-Professional Organizations

He is a member of the scientific board of the German Adult Education Institute (DIE)

He is a member of the editorial board of the American Human Resource Development Review

In 2006 he became a member of The International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame.

 

Publications

Many publications on teacher training, school and society, and project work in practice.

 

Books
2010: Fundamentals of Workplace Learning: Understanding How People Learn in Working Life. London/New York: Routledge.
2009: International Perspectives on Competence Development: Developing skills and capabilities (ed.): London/New York: Routledge.
2009: Contemporary Theories of Learning: Learning theorists … in their own words. London/New York: Routledge.
2007: How We Learn: Learning and Non-Learning in School and Beyond. London/New York: Routledge.
2004: Learning in Working Life (KI and Associates). Copenhagen: Roskilde University Press. 
2004: Adult Education and Adult Learning. Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company. 245 pages. (Also published by Roskilde University Press, 2004).
2002: The Three Dimensions of Learning: Contemporary Learning Theory in the Tension Field between the Cognitive, the Emotional and the Social. Copenhagen:Roskilde University Press. 272 pages. American edition: Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company, 2004.
2000: Adult Education in the Perspective of the Learners (ed.). Copenhagen: Roskilde University Press. 198 pages.
1998: Adult Education in a Transforming Society (ed.). Copenhagen: Roskilde University Press. 184 pages.
1996: General Qualifications. Adult Education Research Group, Roskilde University. 78 pages. Together with Vibeke Andersen, Christian Kjærsgaard, Kirsten Larsen, Henning Salling Olesen and Lars Ulriksen.
1994: Qualifications and Living People. Adult Education Research Group, Roskilde University. 91 pages. Together with Vibeke Andersen, Christian Kjærsgaard, Kirsten Larsen, Henning Salling Olesen and Lars Ulriksen.


Research Reports
2000: Balancing Competencies. Enhancing the participation of young adults in economic and social processes: balancing instrumental, biographical and social competencies in post school education and training. EU: European Commission. Together with Noemi Katznelson and Birgitte Simonsen.
1999: A Topic Study on General Skills. Berlin: Research Forum WIFO, Leonardo Research Partnership DUOQUAL. 34 pages. Together with Claudia Pasti.
1999: General Qualification in Danish Adult Vocational Education. Berlin: Research Forum WIFO, Leonardo Research Partnership DUOQUAL. 35 pages.

 

Articles, Chapters and Papers
2010: Workplaces and Learning. In the SAGE Handbook of Workplace Learning (in press).
2010: The Biographical Approach to Educational research: Comments from the Sidelines. Oxford Review of Education. Special Issue on the Biographical Approach (in press).
2010: Characteristics of Adult Learning. In Penelope Peterson, Eva Baker & Barry McGaw (eds.): International Ecyclopedia of Education. Oxford: Elsevier.
2009: A comprehensive understanding of human learning. International Journal of Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning, Vol. 2, No. 1.
2009: Lifelong learning as a psychological process. In Peter Jarvis (ed.): The Routledge International Handbook of Lifelong Learning. London/New York: Routledge.
2009: Transfer of learning in the learning society: How can the barriers between different learning spaces be surmounted, and how can the gap between learning inside and outside schools be bridged? International Journal of Lifelong Education, Vol. 28, No. 2.
2009: Introduction. In Knud Illeris (ed.): International Perspectives on Competence Development: Developing skills and capabilities (ed.): London/New York: Routledge.
2009: Competence, learning and education: how can competences be learned, and how can they be developed in formal education. In Knud Illeris (ed.): International Perspectives on Competence Development: Developing skills and capabilities (ed.): London/New York: Routledge.
2009: Introduction. In Knud Illeris (ed.): Contemporary Theories of Learning: Learning theorists … in their own words. London/New York: Routledge.
2009: A comprehensive understanding of human learning. In Knud Illeris (ed.): Contemporary Theories of Learning: Learning theorists … in their own words. London/New York: Routledge.
2009: General Qualification as a Societal and an Individual Need. In Axel Bolder & Rolf Dobischat (Hrsg.): Eigen-Sinn und Widerstand. Kritische Beiträge zum Kompetenzentwicklungsdiskurs. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
2009: Learning, work and competence development. In Shirley Walters (ed.): Learning@work: Perspectives on Skills Development in the Workplace. Pretoria: South African Qualifications Authority.
2008: Combined Development And Research Projects. Paper for the 11th International Conference on Experiential Learning (ICEL), Sydney, December 8-12. Together with Birgitte Simonsen.
2008: Experiential Learning in Youth. Paper for the 11th International Conference on Experiential Learning (ICEL), Sydney, December 8-12. Together with Birgitte Simonsen.
2008: Learning. In Gary McCulloch & David Crook (eds.): The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Education. London/New York: Routledge. 
2008: Competence Development – the key to modern education, or just another buzzword? Asia Pacific Education Review. Special Issue on Competence Development. Vol. 9, No. 1.
2008: How We Learn. Paper for 2008 Seminar of the Centre International d'études agricoles, Switzerland.
2007: Pedagogical Approaches to Work-Related Learning with special reference to the Low-Skilled. In Tara Fenwick & Leslie Ferrell (eds.): Educating the Global Workforce: Knowledge, Knowledge Work and Knowledge Workers. London: Routledge.
2007: What do we Actually mean by Experiential Learning? Human Resource Development Review, Vol. 6, No. 1.
2007: Book Review: Learning and Democracy: Learning democratically using study circles. Adults Learning, Vol. 18, No. 6.
2006: Book Review: Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Human Learning, by Peter Jarvis. Human Resource Development Review, Vol. 5, No. 3.
2006: Lifelong Learning and the Low-Skilled. In Ari Antikainen (ed.): In from the Margins: Adult Education, Work and Civil Society. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
2005: Breaking the Ice: Five tips. Learning Lab Quarterly, No. 3-4.
2005: Low-skilled workers learn at the workplace. Lifelong Learning in Europe. Vol. 10, No. 3.
2005: Lifelong Learning and the Low-Skilled. International Journal of Lifelong Education. No. 4.
2005: What is Special about Adult Learning? In Peter Sutherland & Jim Crowther (eds.): Lifelong Learning: Concepts and Contexts. London: Routledge.
2005: A comprehensive understanding of human learning. In Peter Jarvis & Stella Parker (eds.): Human Learning: A holistic approach. London: Kogan Page.
2005: Pedagogical Approaches of Workplace Learning - with special reference to the low-skilled. Paper for the 3rd International Conference on Researching Lifelong Learning and Teaching, Center for Research in Lifelong Learning, University of Stirling, Scotland.
2005: Ground Control calling all Economists. Learning Lab Quarterly, No. 1.
2004: Promising Competencies. Learning Lab Denmark Quarterly, No. 4.
2004: Workplace Learning: Advantages and Disadvantages – as Seen in Relation to Courses and School Training. Keynote at the conference: Workplace Learning – from the Learners’ Perspective, Copenhagen, November 25-27.
2004: Workplace Learning – a solution to the competence-problem? Paper for the conference: Workplace Learning – from the Learners’ Perspective, Copenhagen, November 25-27.
2004: A Model for Learning in Working Life. Journal of Workplace Learning. Vol. 16, No. 8, pp. 431-441.
2004: Workplace Learning – Scandinavian Perspectives. Journal of Workplace Learning. Vol. 16, No. 8, pp 427-430. Together with Per-Erik Ellström.
2004: Transformative Learning in the Perspective of a Comprehensive Learning Theory. Journal of Transformative Education. Vol. 2, No. 2, pp 79-89.
2004: What is significant for adults' learning? Current Issues in Adult Learning and Motivation. Adult Education Colloquium 7. Slovenian Institute for Adult Education.
2003: How do Adults Learn? Dialogue with Alan Rogers. Adults Learning, NIACE, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp 24-27.
2003: Learning, Identity and Self-Orientation in Youth. Young - Nordic Journal of Youth Research. Vol.11, no.4, pp 357-376.
2003: The Organisation of Studies at Roskilde University: the concept, practice and problems of project organisation. Paper for panel discussion on Transformative Learning Practice, Fifth International Transformative Learning Conference, New York, Columbia University, October 23-25.
2003: What is Significant for Adults' Learning? Paper presented at the 7th Adult Education Colloquium, Ljubljana, October 17-18. Published in Marco Radovan & Neda Dordevic (eds.): Current Issues in Adult Learning and Motivation. Ljubljana: Slovenian Institute for Adult Education, pp 23-33.
2003: When Lifelong Learning is just a Phrase. Learning Lab Denmark Quarterly, No. 3-4.
2003: Towards a Contemporary and Comprehensive Theory of Learning.International Journal of Lifelong Education, Vol.22, no.4, pp 411-421.
2003: From Vocational Training to Workplace Learning. Paper presented at conference on Researching Learning outside the Academy, Glasgow Caledonian University, June 27-29.
2003: Low-Skilled Adults' Motivation for Learning. Paper presented at the CEDEFOP Conference on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, June 2-3.
2003: Workplace Learning and Learning Theory. Journal of Workplace Learning. Vol.15, no.4.
2003: Adults' Motivation for Lifelong Learning. Paper presented at the Nordic-Baltic Lifelong Learning Conference, Riga, May 11-13.
2003: Learning Changes through Life. Lifelong Learning in Europe. Vol.8, no.1, pp 51-60.
2003: Adult Education as Experienced by the Learners. International Journal of Lifelong Education. Vol.22, no.1, pp 13-23.
2002: Understanding the Conditions of Adult Learning. Adults Learning, NIACE, Vol.14, no.4, pp 18-20.
2002: Lifelong Learning – from the Perspective of the Learners. Introductory presentation for the workshop on Motivation and Lifelong Learning at the Danish EU Precidency Conference, October 8.
2002: Working Life Learning in the Perspective of the Learners. Paper for Scandinavian Workshop on Working Life Learning.
2002: The Organisation of Studies at Roskilde University: The Concept, Practice and Problems of Project Organisation. In Per Knudsen (ed.): Roskilde University: Principles of Education and Research, pp 14-17.
2001: Adult Education as Mass Education. Paper presented at the ESREA Conference in Lisbon: Wider Benefits of Learning – Understanding and Monitoring the Consequences of Adult Learning.
2001: The Three Dimensions of Learning. Opening Keynote at the Congress of Nordic Educational Research Association in Stockholm.
2000: Lifelong Learning as Mass Education. In Colin Symes (ed.): Working Knowledge: Conference Proceedings, University of Technology Sydney, pp 559-563.
2000: Trends and Perspectives on Learning, Knowledge and Skills Development.Presentation at the Opening Conference of Learning Lab Denmark, Copenhagen.
2000: Learning Theory and Adult Education. Paper for presentation at the AERC Conference in Vancouver.
2000: Adult Education between Emancipation and Control. In Knud Illeris (ed.): Adult Education in the Perspective of the Learners. Copenhagen: Roskilde University Press, pp 116-136. Together with Annegrethe Ahrenkiel.
1999: Project Work in University Studies - Background and Current Issues. Opening Keynote of the 25th Anniversary Conference of Roskilde University. In Henning Salling Olesen & Jens Højgaard Jensen (eds.): Project Studies – a late modern university reform? Roskilde University Press, pp 25-32.
1998: Adult Learning and Responsibility. In Knud Illeris (ed.): Adult Education in a Transforming Society. Copenhagen: Roskilde University Press, pp 107-125.
1997: Elaboration of Conference Themes. In Mette Knudsen (ed.): Project Work in University Studies: Advance Programme. Roskilde University.
1997: General Qualification as a Societal and an Individual Need. In Jan Holmer & Jan Ch. Karlsson (eds.): Work - Quo Vadis? Re-thinking the Question of Work. Aldershot: Ashgate.
1997: Project Work in University Studies. Seminar paper, Roskilde University.
1996: Project Studies at Roskilde University. In Maastricht University 20th Anniversary Conference: Placing the student at the Center. Maastricht 1997, pp 72-75.
1996: Piaget and Education. Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Experiential Learning, University of Cape Town.
1994: General Qualification in Danish Adult Vocational Training Programmes. In Tanja Klenovsek & Henning Salling Olesen (eds.): Adult Education and the Labour Market. Ljubljana: Slovene Adult Education Centre, p. 69-81. Together with Vibeke Andersen.
1992: The Organization of Studies at Roskilde University. In Papers presented at the CRE-seminar at Roskilde University, June 19-24.
1992: The Significance of Educational Strategies. British Educational Research Journal, No.1, pp 17-23.
1991: Project Education in Denmark. International Journal of Project Management, No.1, pp 45-48.
1986: The Use of Projects in University Education as Inspiration for Project Management. In Eric Gabriel (ed.): New Approaches in Project Management - Proceedings of the 10th International Expert Seminar. Zürich: Internet.

 

Professional Interest Areas

He was focused on academic and vocational youth education. In 1987, he shifted his career focus to adult education and general learning theory,  adult and youth learning, adult education, learning in working life, special learning conditions of the low-skilled.

 

Major Contributions to Adult Education

  • He helped the Labour Market Adult Vocational Training System through a process of reorganization beginning in 1987.
  • In the “Generic Qualification” research project he examined all aspects of adult vocational training, leading to a qualification theory in 1993 and later also to a learning theory.

 

Additional Resources  

Knud Illeris –publikationer på andre sprog (publications in other languages).

Kinesisk (Chinese)

2010:How We Learn. Beijing: Educational Science Publishing House.

2009: A Comprehensive Understanding of Human Learning. International Journalof Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning.

2009: How We Learn. Paper elaborated and translated into Chinese. World Education Information. The Chinese Ministry of Education. No. 1.

 

Svensk (Swedish)

2007: Lärande. 2. udgave. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

2002: Lärandes tre dimensioner. Finlandssvensk pedagogisk tidsskrift, nr. 1.

2001: Lärande i mötet mellan Piaget, Freud och Marx. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

1989: Skolans långtidsverkan. KRUT Kritisk utbildningstidsskrift, nr. 53.

1982: Alternativ pädagogik –motkvalificering eller moderniserad tilpasning?KRUT Kritisk utbildningstidsskrift, nr. 22.

1980: Projektarbete –en lägesbestämning 1980. KRUT Kritisk utbildningstidsskrift, nr. 15.

1979: Projektarbete –Erfarenheter och praktisk handledning. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand. I samarbejde med Jens Berthelsen og Sten Clod Poulsen.

1976: Problemorienterad och deltakerstyrd undervisning –förutsättningar, planering och genomförande. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstarnd.

 

Norsk (Norwegian)

2001: Læring og lærerroller.I Trygve Bergem (red): Slipp elevene løs! Artikler med søkelys på lærerrollen. Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk.

1999: Ikke alt er prosjektarbeide. Curriculum Vitae, Oslo, nr. 2.

1995: Prosjektarbeid som arbeidsform. I Torbjørn Lund m.fl. (red): Prosjektarbeid som læringsform. Tromsø: UNIKOM.

1995: Hvilke kvalifikasjoner kan prosjektarbeid gi elevene/studentene? I Torbjørn Lund m.fl. (red): Prosjektarbeid som læringsform. Tromsø: UNIKOM.

1987:Innføring i prosjektarbeid. Oslo: TidenNorsk Forlag. I samarbejde med Jens Berthelsen og 2 Sten Clod Poulsen.

 

Finsk (Finnish)

2006:Elinkäinen oppiminen ja metalasti koulutetut. Aikuiskasvatus, nr. 1.

 

Islandsk (Icelandic)

2005: Brjotum isinn. I Gatt: Arsrit um fullordinsfrædslu og starfsmenntun. Reykjavik: Frædslumidstod atvinnulifsins.

 

Tysk (German)

2010: Wie wir Lernen. Kognition, Emotion, Interaktion. Bad Heilbronn: Julius Klinkhardt.

2006: Das ”Lerndreieck”: Rahmenkonzept für ein übergreifendes Verständnis vom menschlisches Lernen. I Ekkehard Nuissl  (Hrsg.): Vom Lernen zu lehren: Lern-und Lehrforschung für die Weiterbildung. Bonn: Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung.

 

Hollandsk (Dutch)

2010: Hoe we leren. Én omvattende en eigentijdse theorie over hoe mensen leren. InGertjanSchuiling, Hans vermaak en Heleen Tours (redactie): Leren in organsaties. Als leren het antwoord is, wat is dan de vraag? Deventer: Kluwer.

 

Litauisk (Lithuanian)

2003: Zvilgsnis i suaugusiuju mokymos motyvacija. TheLithuanian Association for Adult Education.

 

Polsk (Polish)

2009: O specyfice uczenia sie ludzi doroslych. Terazniejszosc Czlowiek Edukacja. Kwartalnik mysli spoleczno-pedagogicznej. Vol. 45. No. 1.

2006: Trzy wymiaru uczenia sie: Poznawcze, emocjonaine i spoleczne ramy wspolczesnej teorii uczenia sie. Wroclaw: Wydanictwo Naukowe.

 

Slovensk (Slovenian)

2003: Solski razgledi. Lifelong Learning in Slovenia. December.3  

 

Græsk (Greek)

2009: Contemporary theories of learning. 16 learning theorists ... in their own words (ed.). Athens: Metaixmio.

2009: A comprehansive understanding of human learning. In Knud Illeris (ed.): Contemporary theories of learning. 16 learning theorists ... in their own words. Athens: Metaixmio. 

2009: The four types of learning. Adult Education. Helenic Adult Education Association. No. 18.

 

Interesting Facts

He started to his higher education career at the age of 27 (in 1966) when he left his job as a Travel agent. He developed a need for more mental simulation so decided to start an A-level course. However, what he experienced was a great disappointment. The lessons were boring, the teaching authoritarian and most of the content he found antiquated. He started studying psychology at the Copenhagen University with a focus on learning processes. However this was another great disappointment, in his eyes the dominating behaviourist understanding did not give any relevant answers. But some older students turned his attention to the ideas of significant learning and student-cantered teaching. Ideas that came from others the American humanistic psychologist Carl Rogers, who had taken up the understanding of learning and development launched by the Swiss biologist Jean Piaget.That following year he could present a dissertation which after the regulations at that time was accepted as both an MA and what corresponds nowadays to a Ph.D.

 

 

 


References

http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/knud-illeris(f1a58ac3-4a49-4a7e-8099-c1daa6240a61).html

http://www.simil.dk/whoiseng.html

http://www.routledge.com/education/articles/routledge_education_author_of_the_month_september_2010_knud_illeris/

 

 

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Direct phone: 47566626

Mobile phone: 47566626

 

Birgitte Simonsen & Knud Illeris - Educational Consultants
Mail: Svanholm Allé 2 - 4050 Skibby - Denmark 
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