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Kupetz, Barbara N. – Day Care & Early Education, 1994
To help dispel myths and stereotypes about the elderly, young children should learn about the elderly and the aging process. Children need to see old age as a part of the total life cycle and can benefit from having contact with senior citizens volunteers in the classroom. (MDM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Discrimination, Aging (Individuals), Aging Education
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Karasik, Rona J.; Maddox, Margie; Wallingford, Minetta – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2004
Service-learning is increasingly becoming an avenue used in a variety of disciplines to provide students with real-life experience regarding aging and older adults. Developing and implementing meaningful service-learning experiences, however, requires consideration both of the discipline-specific content to be addressed, as well as the varied…
Descriptors: Gerontology, Service Learning, Occupational Therapy, Intergenerational Programs
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Tsukada, Noriko; Tatara, Toshio – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2005
The development of gerontological education is lagging behind in Japan in spite of Japan's large population of elders. Nevertheless, there are signs that this may be changing. In this paper we discuss how gerontology education has evolved in Japan over the past 40 years. Specifically, we provide an overview of the development of academic societies…
Descriptors: Gerontology, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Gerontology
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Pratt, Francis; Laney, James D.; Couper, Donna – Social Studies, 2002
Aging is often thought of as an essentially biological process and therefore a matter for the natural sciences, but that notion constitutes a very narrow view of aging. The longevity revolution of the past century and how it affects each individual and all societies can only be understood if we also draw on the social sciences. When the young…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Materials, Aging Education, Social Studies
Ashe, Peter M. – 1987
To broaden the scope of a letter writing unit for seventh graders, a real-life component brought together two groups who could learn from one another, youngsters (who usually did not have living or nearby grandparents) and the elderly in a convalescent home. Students selected their pen pals on the basis of biographical data and similar interests…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aging Education, Elementary Education, Grade 7
Smith, Gary R. – 1978
This teaching guide on aging contains 18 activities for students. A major cognitive objective is for students to examine and evaluate personal and societal attitudes and behavior toward aging in the United States and in other societies. When students make cross-cultural comparisons of these attitudes and behaviors they become aware that their own…
Descriptors: Advertising, Age Discrimination, Aging Education, Aging (Individuals)
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Rakowski, William; And Others – Journal of Dental Education, 1984
Future orientation has been proposed as contributing to unfavorable perceptions of older patients. Students from a dental hygiene program were questioned about their general attitudes toward older people, older people as patients, their own future, the future for older adults, and about their social/familial contact with the elderly. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Aging Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Dental Hygienists
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Larrabee, Marva J. – School Counselor, 1983
Provides school counselors with resource materials for use in developing classroom guidance strategies to help students deal with attitudes toward aging. Describes use of classroom simulation activities and provides guidelines for selecting simulations and adapting commerical materials. Offers ideas for using a simulation of aging experience. (JAC)
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Aging Education, Counseling Techniques, Educational Innovation
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Boren, Nona; And Others – Educational Gerontology, 1982
Describes three community-based service-learning activities developed by the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Services. The interdisciplinary program provides field experience for medical and graduate students as well as community medical services for the elderly. Objectives and evaluations of the programs are presented. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Aging Education, College Students, Community Programs, Educational Objectives
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Lichtenstein, Michael J.; Pruski, Linda A.; Marshall, Carolyn E.; Blalock, Cheryl L.; Lee, Shuko; Plaetke, Rosemarie – Gerontologist, 2003
Purpose: Sentence completion exercises require students to give open-ended responses to prompts. The first purpose of this article is to describe the method of sentence completion to assess middle-school children's attitudes and beliefs about aging. The second purpose is to describe the patterns of characteristics that children associate with…
Descriptors: Sentences, Teaching Methods, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes
McGuire, Sandra L. – 1992
Noting that early children's literature plays a major role in the development of children's attitudes, this annotated bibliography lists over 100 early childhood picture books which contain positive portrayals of older adults. The books selected portray aging as a natural and lifelong process of growing and developing; present similarities between…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aging Education, Aging (Individuals), Annotated Bibliographies
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Center for Educational and Cultural Opportunities for the Aging. – 1989
This document, a policy statement adopted by the New York State Board of Regents in 1986, describes program options to implement each of six policy directions adopted by the Regents and to be coordinated by the Center for Educational and Cultural Opportunities for the Aging. The six policy directions are (1) involve the elderly as active…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Aging Education, Aging (Individuals), Cooperative Programs
Gutknecht, Bruce – 1986
A study was conducted to analyze the content of stories in several basal reading systems widely used in primary grade reading instruction. The investigation was in terms of the relative frequency of main characters who are elderly, the portrayal of elderly characters in relation to other characters in the stories, the incidence of aging themes,…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Age Differences, Aging Education, Aging (Individuals)
Green, Fiona Lamont – 1982
The guide is designed to help educators integrate the study of aging into the high school curriculum. Objectives are to promote and support the study of aging and the aging process, dispel popular misconceptions surrounding aging, aid educators in establishing programs with, by, and for seniors, and provide a list of helpful resource groups.…
Descriptors: Aging Education, Aging (Individuals), Citizen Participation, Community Services
Frost, George – 1981
This publication contains two activities on aging for use with secondary students. The activities are designed to challenge the prevailing myths about growing old, to provide students with better information, and to foster more positive attitudes about older people. In the first activity, which will take about five class periods, students clarify…
Descriptors: Aging Education, Aging (Individuals), Learning Activities, Older Adults
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