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Peer reviewedGaullier, Xavier – Ageing International, 1986
Discusses the economic crisis and subsequent employment problems that have had substantial consequences for older workers in France. Offers alternatives including a flexible career cycle in which working periods would alternate with long periods of training and leisure time throughout a career. (JOW)
Descriptors: Career Development, Early Retirement, Economic Factors, Older Adults
Peer reviewedNusberg, Charlotte – Ageing International, 1986
Discusses measures that have been adopted by France, Great Britain, Sweden, the Netherlands, the United States, and Japan to prolong the work life of older workers. Measures include job transfer and exemption, dismissal protection, retirement policies, and reintegration of unemployed older workers. (JOW)
Descriptors: Dismissal (Personnel), Fringe Benefits, Job Development, Job Layoff
Peer reviewedGani, Leon – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de Pedagogie, 1993
In industrialized societies, life expectancy is increasing while the elderly are increasingly marginalized. Aging, especially with respect to social demography, should be an essential educational topic for teachers and those who care for the elderly. Education for the elderly should help them assume the role of transmitting their knowledge and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Aging Education, Demography, Educational Objectives
Fontaine, Anne; And Others – 1985
These proceedings of a UNESCO conference include the following papers: "Foreword," by Anne Fontaine; "Education and the Elderly in the Second Medium-Term Plan of UNESCO (1984-1989)," by Mir Sarfaraz Husain; "Introduction," by Genevieve Vaucher; "Part I: Adult Education and Aging," by Genevieve Vaucher;…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Aging (Individuals), Delivery Systems, Educational Needs
Asche, Justice Austin; And Others – 1985
This document contains final papers presented at an International Committee on Family Research (CFR) seminar; included are key, discussant, and free papers as well as closing and farewell addresses. Key papers covered (1) worldwide trends in administrating family policy and (2) work, economic policies, and welfare consequences and…
Descriptors: Demography, Family Life, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Structure
Peterson, Richard E. – 1980
This paper sketches major programs for adult education in Sweden, the Soviet Union, France, and England and considers several policy implications for adult education in the United States. The first section examines the reforms in Swedish public education designed to facilitate social equality, with special emphasis on the study circle. A…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Comparative Analysis, Continuing Education
PDF pending restorationStultz, Erma, Ed. – 1986
This report, written in popular education style and designed to be readable both by adult educators and by the people with whom they work, describes a week-long meeting of the World Assembly of Adult Education. Under the general themes "Where are we?""Where are we going?" and How to do it" the report provides synopses of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
