Quality Learning for Positive Ageing: Voices of Older Learners

Quality Learning for Positive Ageing explores the views of older adult learners to understand the factors that contribute to 'quality in later-life learning and how these relate to wellbeing, positive ageing, and gaining protection against cognitive decline. It outlines the specific characteristics of quality that they associate with informal learning and how it can be enhanced through the adoption of simple strategies.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 226 pages
Publication date: 29 February 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Quality Learning for Positive Ageing delves into the perspectives of older adult learners to unravel the factors that contribute to the quality of learning in later life, its connection to well-being, positive aging, and cognitive protection. By gathering and analyzing the insights of learners, facilitators, and learning organizations, the author highlights the distinctive qualities of informal learning and proposes strategies to enhance them. Key topics explored include the implications of an aging population and barriers to older people's learning, as well as the cognitive, mental, health, and social benefits of learning in later life. Throughout the book, real-life vignettes of later-life learners are presented, showcasing how learners can maximize their benefits from learning, how tutors can create learning opportunities that embody quality, and how providers can foster an environment that promotes quality learning. This accessible and comprehensive text holds immense interest for researchers in gerontology, aging, educational gerontology, adult education, and lifelong learning, as well as those engaged in dementia research.

Weight: 388g
Dimension: 156 x 233 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032216645