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| How do mature learners learn? | | Author(s) | Anita Pincas |
| Journal title | Quality in Ageing, vol 8, no 4, December 2007 |
| Pages | pp 28-32 |
| Source | http://www.pavpub.com |
| Keywords | Adult Education ; Learning capacity ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | The University of London Institute of Education (IoE) is conducting research exploring the social and individual backgrounds to older learning, also leisure education, professional retraining and academic study. The IoE is also launching a new short part-time on-line course, Issues in Educating and Training Mature Adults (50+) (information at www.ioe.ac.uk/courses/ietma). This article outlines findings from the first phase of the research, based on an on-line questionnaire to 124 students, which suggests that these older learners prefer flexible ways of learning, and most prefer independent work, but are comfortable also with group work and collaborative or practical activities. The author notes that other universities - Strathclyde and Lancaster - are interested in involving older people, while Oxford and Sheffield have centres devoted to the study of ageing. She comments on her IoE findings in the context of the European Commission (EC) Communication, 'Adult learning: it is never too late to learn', and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) 'Opportunity age' (Cm 6466; TSO, 2005). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071211214 A |
| Classmark | GP: DE: 3F |
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