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Direct linkDainton, 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
Peer reviewedTanner, Don R.; O'Briant, Richard M. – Music Educators Journal, 1980
Literature on music preferences of older adults and music therapy for older adults is reviewed, and suggestions are made for making music more accessible to the older person. (KC)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Individual Needs, Music, Music Education
Jarvis, Peter – Adult Education (London), 1980
Discusses philosophical and theoretical aims of preretirement education and outlines steps in a comprehensive approach to curriculum development and course design for this form of recurrent education. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs
Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Special Committee on Aging. – 1980
The problem of senior citizens in Florida who need to work are chronicled in this third part of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Work after 65 hearings, conducted in Orlando, Florida, in July, 1980. During the Florida hearing, representatives of various government programs for senior citizens, professors of education and economics and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Age Discrimination, Aging (Individuals), Demography
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Special Committee on Aging. – 1980
With Social Security and retirement benefits unable to keep up with inflation, and persons living longer than ever in this country, retirement at age 65 or younger may no longer be a desirable choice for millions of older workers. These themes were articulated by government officials and foundation officers at the first session of a U.S. Senate…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Age Discrimination, Aging (Individuals), Demography
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
Pink, Daniel H. – 2001
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the rise of free agent workers, how free agency is transforming the lives of free agents and those around them, problems encountered by free agents, and the future of free agency. The following are among the topics discussed in the book's 19 chapters: (1) the numbers and nuances of free agency; (2)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Agencies, Aging (Individuals)
