Ebook: 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 in the field.

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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.

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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.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Lifelong Learning, Welfare and Mental Well-being into Older Age: Trends and Policies in Europe....Pages 11-20
Issues in Learning and Education for the Ageing....Pages 21-33
Successful Ageing and International Approaches to Later-Life Learning....Pages 35-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Using Narrative Inquiry and Analysis of Life Stories to Advance Elder Learning....Pages 67-87
Toward Critical Narrativity: Stories of Ageing in Contemporary Social Policy....Pages 89-102
Active Ageing: Developing a Quantitative Multidimensional Measure....Pages 103-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Chinese Ageism Lives On: Grassroots Reports on Elderly Learning in Shaanxi, Jiangxi, and Jiangsu....Pages 121-139
Elderly Learning in Chinese Communities: China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore....Pages 141-161
Active Ageing, Active Learning: Elder Learning in Hong Kong....Pages 163-174
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Back Matter....Pages 175-180