Quality Learning for Positive Ageing

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.

Autorentext

Alan Potter is retired and lives with his wife, Sandra, in Somerset. He spent all his working life with the police as a cadet, constable, and a communications operator. He has two grown-up sons. His main hobby, outside writing, is family history research. He has written many poems, self-published two anthologies and had poems and articles published in various magazines and newspapers.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

1. Introduction

2. Researching the Quality of Learning

3. Ageing and Learning throughout a Longer Life

4. The Benefits of Later-Life Learning

5. The Quality of Learning in Later Life and Why it Matters

6. The Characteristics of Quality Learning

7. The Dimensions and Parameters of Quality Later-Life Learning

8. What does Quality Later-Life Learning Look Like?

9. Adopting Outcomes to Improve the Quality of Later-Life Learning

10. Concluding remarks

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