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International Perspectives on Older Adult Education = Research, Policies and Practice /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	International Perspectives on Older Adult Education/ edited by Brian Findsen, Marvin Formosa.
Reminder of title:	Research, Policies and Practice /
other author:	Findsen, Brian.
Description:	XIX, 519 p. 99 illus., 88 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Lifelong learning. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24939-1
ISBN:	9783319249391

International Perspectives on Older Adult Education = Research, Policies and Practice /
International Perspectives on Older Adult EducationResearch, Policies and Practice /[electronic resource] :edited by Brian Findsen, Marvin Formosa. - 1st ed. 2016. - XIX, 519 p. 99 illus., 88 illus. in color.online resource. - Lifelong Learning Book Series,221871-322X ;. - Lifelong Learning Book Series,22.

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 by a 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 territory that authors traverse in which rhetoric and reality are interrogated. Coverage in chapters includes conceptual analysis, historical patterns of provision, policy developments, theoretical perspectives, research studies, challenges faced by countries and “success stories” of later life learning. The resultant effect is a vivid portrayal of a vast array of learning that occurs in later life across the globe. Brian Findsen is Professor of Education and Postgraduate Leader for Te Whiringa School of Educational Leadership and Policy, Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Marvin Formosa is Head of the Department of Gerontology, Faculty for Social Wellbeing, University of Malta, and Director of the International Institute on Ageing (United Nations - Malta).

ISBN: 9783319249391

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-24939-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Lifelong learning.

LC Class. No.: LC5201-6660.4

Dewey Class. No.: 374

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