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"Access of older persons to education" - lifelong learning as knowledge acquisition and prerequisite in Europe
— report of an international EURAG colloquy, Vienna, 9th February 2001 | | Author(s) | Gerhard Teissl |
| Corporate Author | General Secretariat, European Federation of the Elderly (EURAG) |
| Journal title | EURAG Newsletter, nos 103/104, 2001 |
| Publisher | EURAG General Secretariat, Graz, 2001 |
| Pages | 152 pp |
| Source | EURAG General Secretariat, Wielandgasse 9, A-8010 Graz, Austria. email: eurag.europe@aon.at |
| Keywords | Adult Education ; Accessibility ; Rights [elderly] ; Conference proceedings ; Europe. |
| Annotation | "The right of older workers to education in a knowledge-based economy" was the theme of a paper by Jim Soulsby of NIACE (the National Institute on Adult Continuing Education). Other topics discussed included: the right to education as a human right for older people; pre-retirement education; knowledge acquisition and exchange of experience between the generations; and seniors' studies and cultural exchange. Plenary discussions centred on lifelong learning to fight social exclusion, and integration of older workers in a knowledge-based economy (including knowledge acquisition via the Internet). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-011001214 B |
| Classmark | GP: 5CA: IKR: 6M: 74 |
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