Active ageing, active learning: issues and challenges

by Boulton-Lewis, Gillian Tam, Maureen

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Title Statements

Full title :Active ageing, active learning : issues and challenges / Gillian Boulton-Lewis, Maureen Tam, editors

Summary

Focuses on an important topic in the world today; Is a valuable resource that contributes to the understanding of lifelong learning and elder education; Written by renowned scholars in the field. This book is concerned with the general issues of ageing, learning and education for the elderly and then with the more specific issues of why, how and what elders want to learn. This monograph consists of 10 chapters written by various internationally renowned researchers and scholar-practitioners in the field. The world's population is ageing rapidly. Ageing has an impact on all aspects of human life, including the social, economic, cultural and political domains. Understanding and providing for ageing is therefore an important issue for the twenty-first century. The focus of this book is the education and learning aspect of participation as people age. This book covers topics such as: learning, welfare, and mental well being into older age; educational initiatives for the elderly; elder learning and policies comparisons from four Chinese speaking communities. This compilation of scholarly work constitutes a valuable recent resource to contribute to the global understanding and knowledge base for lifelong learning and elder education."--Publisher's website

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2012

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Springer
Place of Publication:Dordrecht
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 180 s. ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789400721104, 9400721102
oclc:ocn796700118
LC Classification:LC
Dewey Decimal:374.18246

Preface. Foreword / Richard G. Bagnall. Introduction / Gillian M. Boulton-Lewis. Ageing issues and provisions for learning. Lifelong learning, welfare and mental well-being into older age: trends and policies in Europe / John Field. Issues in learning and education for the ageing / Gillian M. Boulton- Lewis. Successful ageing and some international approaches to later life learning / Rick Swindell. Research methods on ageing issues. Using narrative inquiry and analysis of life stories to advance elder learning / Nancy Lloyd Pfahl. Toward critical narrativity: stories of ageing in contemporary social policy / Simon Biggs. Active ageing: developing a quantitative multidimensional measure / Laurie Buys and Evonne Miller. Provisions for ageing in parts of Asia and Hong Kong. Chinese ageism lives on: grassroots reports on elderly learning in Shaanxi, Jiangxi and Jiangsu / Roger Boshier. Elderly learning in Chinese communities -- China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore / Ernest Chui. Active ageing, active learning: elder learning in Hong Kong / Maureen Tam

Subjects

adult education Aging -- Psychological aspects Altenbildung Aufsatzsammlung Éducation des adultes Older people -- Education Personnes âgées -- Éducation Vieillissement -- Aspect psychologique