Editors:
- 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 lifelong learning covering a wider territory than any other book before ?
Part of the book series: Lifelong Learning Book Series (LLLB, volume 22)
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About this book
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 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.
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).
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Editors and Affiliations
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Te Whiringa School of Edu Leadership, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Brian Findsen
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Dep of Gerontology, Fac for Social Wellb, University of Malta, Malta, Malta
Marvin Formosa
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Perspectives on Older Adult Education
Book Subtitle: Research, Policies and Practice
Editors: Brian Findsen, Marvin Formosa
Series Title: Lifelong Learning Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24939-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-24937-7Published: 08 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79703-8Published: 30 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-24939-1Published: 29 December 2015
Series ISSN: 1871-322X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-5325
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 519
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 88 illustrations in colour
Topics: Lifelong Learning/Adult Education, International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics