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Jens Ruhose; Stephan L. Thomsen; Insa Weilage – Education Economics, 2024
Adult education may keep older workers productive if they voluntarily engage in learning. Examining a generous partial retirement reform in Germany that encouraged early retirement among male workers, we estimate voluntary adult education activities for early retirees. Using county-level administrative data on all public adult education centers…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Older Adults, Retirement, Public Education
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Pihlainen, Kaisa; Ehlers, Anja; Rohner, Rebekka; Cerna, Katerina; Kärnä, Eija; Hess, Moritz; Hengl, Lisa; Aavikko, Lotta; Frewer-Graumann, Susanne; Gallistl, Vera; Müller, Claudia – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2023
The rapid development of digital technologies and their increasing application in many areas of everyday life challenge all citizens to continuously learn digital skills. This also applies to older adults, among whom digital literacy is on average less well-developed than among younger adults. This article investigates why retired older adults…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Case Studies, Digital Literacy, Older Adults
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Zharkova, Alena A.; Losyakov, Andrey V.; Anufriev, Aleksander F.; Krokhina, Julia A.; Mayorova, Elena I.; Gundarin, Mikhail V.; Grigorev, Sergey M. – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
The article considers the problem of activation of people of retirement age during the period of self-isolation and studies education as a means of their activation. As a research method, the questionnaire method was used, which allows us most effectively to find out the features in the attitude of retirement age people who are in self-isolation…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Adult Education, Older Adults, Retirement