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Peer reviewedMcGuire, Lisa C.; Zwahr, Melissa D. – Teaching of Psychology, 1999
Outlines two projects that highlight the multidimensionality of aging processes for adult development and aging courses: (1) students design an age-appropriate retirement community using buildings on the local college campus; and (2) students present products they design to remedy specific age-related problems. (DSK)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Aging Education, Cooperative Learning, Experiential Learning
Peer reviewedFingerman, Karen L.; Bertrand, Rosanna – Teaching of Psychology, 1999
Describes two exercises that convey the ways in which social biases influence adult development and aging: (1) involves sorting pictures of people by age illustrating the diversity of opinions about how to divide the life span; and (2) demonstrates how physical and social factors shape individual well-being in old age. (DSK)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Age Discrimination, Aging (Individuals), Aging Education
