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Direct linkLarraine Larri; Hilary Whitehouse – Gender and Education, 2024
This paper reflects on the ecofeminist educational implications of research findings about Australia's Knitting Nannas' Against Gas and Greed (a.k.a. The Nannas') experiences of peer-to-peer, environmental activist learning. Aspects of this unique and successful suite of informal learning practices devised by the Nannas guided by their Nannafesto,…
Descriptors: Educational Gerontology, Foreign Countries, Gender Bias, Age Discrimination
Peer reviewedMinichiello, Victor – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de Pedagogie, 1992
Reviews data on the rapid growth of the older population in Australia. Describes the aims and content of gerontological education, highlighting the importance of destroying myths. Describes the educational opportunities available for older people, exploring the University of the Third Age model. (DMM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age Discrimination, Allied Health Occupations Education, Educational Opportunities
Download full textWooden, Mark; VandenHeuvel, Adriana; Cully, Mark; Curtain, Richard – 2001
This report covers a study of barriers for older workers in obtaining and benefitting from training and innovative policies to remove them. After an introduction, Chapter 2 reviews literature on incidence and determinants of older workers' participation in training; barriers to training; and employer and government initiatives to enhance older…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Age Discrimination, Developed Nations
Swindell, Rick, Ed. – 1991
These conference proceedings contain nine theme papers from a conference on the University of the Third Age (U3A); the concept of positive aging; and new directions in political thinking, education, health, and social services. An introduction by the conference coordinator, Geoff Cawthorne, begins the volume. The papers are as follows:…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Smith, Andrew, Ed. – 1999
This document contains six papers exploring the training and learning of older people in Australia's vocational education and training (VET), and of technical and further education (TAFE) programs in the adult and community sectors. "Preface" (Andrew Smith) discusses the adequacy of training opportunities available to older Australians…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Age Discrimination, Aging (Individuals)
