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Hsiao-Mei Hu – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
Maintaining the abilities and utilizing, even developing the potential of older adults is currently one of the important issues in an aged society, and participation in education is an important method to maintain and develop the abilities of older adults. Exploring the factors that discourage older adults from participating in learning activities…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Attitudes, Participation, Adult Education
Magnus Schoultz – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This study aims to contribute knowledge about teachers' reflections on their own practice in "Folkbildning" activities for older adults and is based on Nordic-German Didaktik theory and the three main Didaktik questions: "why?, what?" and "how?." Semi-structured, qualitative interviews were conducted with teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Older Adults, Adult Education
Nuntiya Doungphummes; Kwanchit Sasiwongsaroj; Theeraphong Boonrugsa; Sirintorn Bhibulbhanuvat; Waraporn Suebwongsuwan – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2024
Media literacy is a much-needed competency in the digitalised world, but it is still an unknown knowledge base for older Thai adults. This design-based research set out as an initiative to promote media literacy through an age-friendly and culture-responsive training programme. The design process involved focus groups with key stakeholders and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Adult Students, Media Literacy, Older Adults
Sasha Elbaz; Johanna Gruber; Kaotar Elberhoumi; Syeda Nayab Bukhari; Soham Rej; Harmehr Sekhon – Educational Gerontology, 2024
Older adults have become more dependent on using technologies to connect and communicate with others across the globe. This insight has since become more evident with the COVID-19 pandemic. While many older adults have increased their skills with these technologies, many more lack the necessary knowledge and skillset to effectively benefit from…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Computer Mediated Communication, Technological Literacy, Program Effectiveness
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
Grossi, Flávia Cristina Duarte Pôssas; Fonseca, Maria da Conceição Ferreira Reis – Adult Literacy Education, 2023
This study analyses how older (mostly 60 years or over) women who are literacy students at Youth and Adult Education Program in a small village of Brazil appropriate school numeracy practices during a class about the discursive genre "label" and the information it conveys. We focus on the students' participation in the discursive…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Females, Adult Literacy, Merchandise Information
Kalayci, Isil; Basalan I?z, Fatma; Kalinkara, Velittin – Educational Gerontology, 2023
The World Health Organization has been emphasizing the importance of active, healthy, and productive aging due to emerging demographic changes. This study was carried out to measure the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Education Participation Scale-A (EPS-A). This methodological study was performed between June 2020 and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Test Validity, Test Reliability
Baumgartner, Lisa M.; Jin, Bora; Kim, Junghwan – Adult Learning, 2023
Older adults are a growing population. This article reviews the literature on older adults in "Adult Learning" from its inception in 1989 through 2020. Topics focus primarily on program reports, programmatic learning needs, personal reflections, and classroom methods. Key findings include that "older adult" is not well-defined…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Adult Education, Literature Reviews, Educational History
Bulbul, Ali Haydar; Gunaydin, Serpil; Odabasi, Hatice Ferhan – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2022
Life expectancy at birth is the highest of all times and tends to increase. This leads to an older society and brings out various needs that are not taken into consideration before, one of which is the education of older adults. People usually get the idea that older adults cannot learn or do not feel the need to learn. However, learning is an…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Electronic Learning, COVID-19, Pandemics
Gau, Wen-Bing – SAGE Open, 2022
Senior citizens' communities of practice (CoPs) in Taiwan focus on the sharing of experiences and expertise, and engagement with issues of mutual concern. Because most of their members have a wealth of social experiences, as well as the time and strong motivation to learn new skills, these CoPs have strong potential to become learning environments…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Older Adults, Communities of Practice, Foreign Countries
Lun Li; Yeonjung Lee – Educational Gerontology, 2024
There is an increasing need of gerontological education in social work to enhance the knowledge of aging and interests in senior care among students. This study is conducted based on an experiential-learning strategy with a combination of having an ethnographic interview with an older adult and writing a reflection paper afterward as an assignment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, Professional Education, Older Adults
Liesa-Orús, Marta; Latorre-Cosculluela, Cecilia; Sierra-Sánchez, Verónica; Vázquez-Toledo, Sandra – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Technological resources have the potential to improve the quality of life in a context in which social pressure for the use of these tools is increasing. In this sense, the adoption of technological resources by the elderly is a highly complex issue because numerous and varied factors are involved. Precisely for this reason, this study aims to…
Descriptors: Older Adults, College Students, Adult Students, Student Attitudes
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
Schmidt-Hertha, Bernhard; Findsen, Brian; Li, Zhen – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2022
The concept and practices associated with learning in later life provide a broad context for understanding the articles published in the IJLE. The main aim of this review is to identify dominant aspects in discourses on older learners in the IJLE and how they have changed over the decades. Hence, we identify and briefly discuss historical trends…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Older Adults, Adult Learning, Andragogy
Aine Ni Bhroin; Keith Morrison – Educational Gerontology, 2024
This article reports a case study of older adults learning English in China. It indicates how, founded on consequentialist ethics, risk analysis, and safeguarding, it was decided to use covert research, drawing on the confluence of risk analysis, risk evaluation, risk management, safeguarding, research ethics, and important contextual and cultural…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Adult Education, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes