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Spiralling through change
— a collaborative case study of older people engaging with new communication technologies through informal and formal learning | | Author(s) | Mary Hamilton |
| Journal title | International Journal of Education and Ageing, vol 2, no 3, 2012 |
| Publisher | Association for Education and Ageing, 2012 |
| Pages | pp 181-196 |
| Source | http://www.associationforeducationandageing.org |
| Keywords | Information technology ; Learning capacity ; Adult Education ; Case studies ; North West England. |
| Annotation | How older adults make use of communication technologies is of wide interest to educators, health professionals and many others. This paper reports on a small-scale research collaboration with the Senior Learners Group at Lancaster University, which documented everyday communication practices in an era that has seen a movement from the 'old technology' of the printed word to new digital technologies. The project challenges media discourses that present older people as outsiders in the new digital landscape as compared with 'native' younger generations. It uses a social practice approach to understand the dynamics of older people's learning and engagement with communication technologies. The enquiry process developed over a year of group and individual meetings within which key themes regarding the adoption of new technologies were identified. The data explores different domains of social activity, from local political participation to internet shopping; the experiences of changing technologies across the lifespan; sponsors of learning including workplaces, businesses, adult education, intergenerational and cross-cultural exchanges; issues of fear and trust; maintaining social contact; and the material factors that affect the ways in which different technologies for communication are taken up or rejected. It concludes that the dynamics of engagement with new technologies are driven by a complex of factors and social relationships that result in layered and changing uses of old and new technologies. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180316220 A |
| Classmark | UVB: DE: GP: 69P: 82NW |
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