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The Impacts of Demographic Change: Young Workers, Older Workers and the Consequences for Education, Skills and Employment
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Goodwin, John; O'Connor, Henrietta – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce the key themes in the area of the impact of demographic change on young workers and older workers in relation to education, skills and employment, as discussed in the papers included in this section. The authors have also drawn upon data from their project "From Young Workers to Older…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Older Workers, Work Life Expectancy, Employment Patterns
What's Become of Lifelong Learning?
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Dainton, Sheila – Adults Learning, 2009
The author's father left school aged 13 at the start of the Great Depression. When he finally found work the wealth of educational opportunity he encountered inspired him with a lifelong love of learning. He signed up for evening classes and loved anything and everything to do with what he proudly called self-improvement. As a novice to retirement…
Descriptors: Evening Programs, Lifelong Learning, Educational Opportunities, Public Policy
Coping with Change: Focus on "Retirement".
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Coleman, Allin – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de Pedagogie, 1992
Offers a brief overview of preretirement education in the United Kingdom and its meaning in an economy where forced redundancy can bring "retirement" at an early age. Highlights the Coping with Change Model, which focuses on insight into the feelings, issues, choices, and skills relevant to life changes. (DMM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Early Retirement, Foreign Countries, Middle Aged Adults
Proceedings of the Annual Adult Education Research Conference (23rd, Lincoln, Nebraska, April 1-3, 1982).
Nebraska Univ., Lincoln. Dept. of Adult and Continuing Education. – 1982
These proceedings of a conference on research in the field of adult education contain the texts of 40 conference papers and 4 symposia. Included among the areas examined in the individual reports are the following: education participation scale factor structure and correlates for 12,000 learners, a comparative analysis of adult education research…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy