Education for Older Adult Learning
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- ISBN 9780313283680
- Publication Date: 24 Mar 1993
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This comprehensive reference provides citations for more than 700 resources essential for planning, funding, initiating, implementing, facilitating, and evaluating a broad range of formal and informal older adult education programs. The work includes books, articles, reports, conference proceedings, government publications, dissertations, leadership guides, audiovisuals, computer programs, and curriculum materials. Each citation is accompanied by a succinct annotation, and the entries are arranged in topical chapters for ease of use. The book also lists aging network and resource organizations, databases, journals, and current laws. Author and subject indexes add to the utility of the volume. Everyone interested in older adult education will find this reference a useful guide to theoretical, managerial, and pedagogical materials.
REVA M. GREENBERG, a specialist in older adult education, is President of Education<>Age and the Education/Training Consultant for the Westchester County Office for the Aging. She was formerly the Director of Education at Mainstream, The Retirement Institute of Westchester Community College. She is Chair of the Older Adult Education Network of the American Society on Aging and was the first convener of the Older Adult Learner Study Section of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education.
