East and West in Comparative Education

SoongHee Han is Professor of Lifelong Learning in the Department of Education at Seoul National University, South Korea. He is the president-elect (2016-2018) of The Korean Society of Lifelong Education.?His academic work has focused on developing a new platform for discourses on educational theory, especially centred on the framework of lifelong learning, learning societies, and complex learning ecologies. He has published articles in journals such as the International Review of Education, the International Journal of Lifelong Education, and the Asia Pacific Education Review.Peter Jarvis is Emeritus Professor of Continuing Education at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. He is the editor of The Routledge International Handbook of Learning (with Mary Watts, 2012). He is the author of Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society (Routledge, 2008), a trilogy of volumes on lifelong learning; Learning to be a Person in Society (Routledge, 2009); and Adult Education and Lifelong Learning: Theory and Practice (Routledge, 4th ed., 2010). He is also founding editor of The International Journal of Lifelong Education - now in its 30th year.