书目名称 | International Perspectives on Older Adult Education |
副标题 | Research, Policies a |
编辑 | Brian Findsen,Marvin Formosa |
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概述 | Provides a retrospective and prospective overview of older adult education.Gives an understanding of fundamental learning issues affecting older adults cross-nationally.Written by country leaders in l |
丛书名称 | Lifelong Learning Book Series |
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描述 | .This important book builds on recent publications in lifelong learning which focus on learning and education in later life. This work breaks new ground in international understandings of what constitutes later life learning across diverse cultures in manifold countries or regions across the world. Containing 42 separate country/regional analyses of later life learning, the overall significance resides in insiders’ conceptualisations and critique of this emerging sub-field of lifelong learning and adult education..International perspectives on older adult education provides new appreciation of what is happening in countries from Europe (14), Africa (10), the Americas (7), Asia (9) and Australasia (2), as authored by adult educators and/or social gerontologists in respective geographical areas. These analyses are contextualised bya thorough introduction and critical appraisal where trends and fresh insights are revealed. The outcome of this book is a never-before available critique of what it means to be an older learner in specific nations, and the accompanying opportunities and barriers for learning and education..The sub-title of research, policy and practice conveys the territor |
出版日期 | Book 2016 |
关键词 | Active ageing; College for Seniors; Educational gerontology; Elderhostels; Late-life learning; Later life |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24939-1 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-79703-8 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-24939-1Series ISSN 1871-322X Series E-ISSN 2730-5325 |
issn_series | 1871-322X |
copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 |