Overview
- Editors:
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Brian Findsen
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University of Waikato, New Zealand
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Marvin Formosa
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University of Malta, Malta
- Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xviii
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- Brian Findsen, Marvin Formosa
Pages 1-6
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- Brian Findsen, Marvin Formosa
Pages 7-19
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- Brian Findsen, Marvin Formosa
Pages 21-34
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- Brian Findsen, Marvin Formosa
Pages 35-48
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Pages 49-61
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- Brian Findsen, Marvin Formosa
Pages 63-75
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- Brian Findsen, Marvin Formosa
Pages 77-88
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- Brian Findsen, Marvin Formosa
Pages 89-101
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- Brian Findsen, Marvin Formosa
Pages 103-116
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- Brian Findsen, Marvin Formosa
Pages 117-130
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- Brian Findsen, Marvin Formosa
Pages 131-143
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- Brian Findsen, Marvin Formosa
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- Brian Findsen, Marvin Formosa
Pages 185-188
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Back Matter
Pages 189-218
About this book
This first truly comprehensive interdisciplinary, international critique of theory and practice in lifelong learning as it relates to later life is an absolute tour de force.
Alexandra Withnall, Universities of Warwick and Leicester, UK.
This is a book that needed to be written: it provides a most thorough and skilful analysis of a comprehensive range of contemporary literature about learning in later life from many localities and countries of the world.
Peter Jarvis, Professor Emeritus, University of Surrey
Impressive in its scope this handbook seeks to describe older learning critically within the lifelong learning literature at the same time that it makes a strong and persuasive case for taking older learning seriously in our postmodern world.
Kenneth Wain, University of Malta
Lifelong learning in later life is an essential handbook for a wide range of people who work alongside older adults in varied contexts. This handbook brings together both orthodox approaches to educational gerontology and fresh perspectives on important emerging issues faced by seniors around the globe. Issues discussed include the social construction of ageing, the importance of lifelong learning policy and practice, participation in later life learning, education of marginalised groups within older communities, inter-generational learning, volunteering and ‘active ageing’, the political economy of older adulthood, learning for better health and well-being, and the place of seniors in a learning society.
Brian Findsen is a professor of adult education, Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. His writings are usually constructed within a social justice framework such as The Fourth Sector: Adult and Community Education in Aotearoa New Zealand (edited with John Benseman and Miriama Scott in 1996) and Learning later (2005).
Marvin Formosa is a lecturer in the European Centre for Gerontology, University of Malta, Msida, Malta. In addition to various articlesfocusing on critical educational gerontology, recent and forthcoming books include Social Class Dynamics in Later Life (2009) and Social Class in Later Life: Power, Identity and Lifestyle (with Paul Higgs, 2012).
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Waikato, New Zealand
Brian Findsen
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University of Malta, Malta
Marvin Formosa
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