Active Ageing, Active Learning Issues and Challenges /
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...
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| Άλλοι συγγραφείς: | , |
| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2012.
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| Σειρά: | Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects ;
15 |
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Series Editors Introduction: Rupert Maclean
- Preface
- Foreword: Richard G. Bagnall
- Introduction: Gillian M. Boulton-Lewis
- Section I: Ageing Issues and Provisions for Learning
- 1. Lifelong Learning, Welfare and Mental Well-being into Older Age: Trends and Policies in Europe: John Field
- 2. Issues in Learning and Education for the Ageing: Gillian M. Boulton- Lewis
- 3. Successful Ageing and Some International Approaches to Later Life Learning: Rick Swindell
- Section II: Research Methods on Ageing Issues. 4. Using Narrative Inquiry and Analysis of Life Stories to Advance Elder Learning: Nancy Lloyd Pfahl
- 5. Toward Critical Narrativity: Stories of Ageing in Contemporary Social Policy: Simon Biggs
- 6. Active Ageing: Developing a Quantitative Multidimensional Measure: Laurie Buys and Evonne Miller
- Section III: Provisions for Ageing in Parts of Asia and Hong Kong
- 7. Chinese Ageism Lives On: Grassroots Reports on Elderly Learning in Shaanxi, Jiangxi and Jiangsu: Roger Boshier
- 8. Elderly Learning in Chinese Communities – China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore: Ernest Chui
- 9. Active Ageing, Active Learning: Elder Learning in Hong Kong: Maureen Tam
- List of Authors: Biographical Details. .
