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| Perspectives on the instruction of biological aging courses | | Author(s) | Dale S Mazzoni, Donald J Nash, Clifton E Barber |
| Journal title | Educational Gerontology, vol 23, no 6, September 1997 |
| Pages | pp 549-565 |
| Keywords | Biological ageing ; Courses ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Courses in biological ageing are becoming increasingly common and necessary in college curricula, yet there is a lack of guidance for instructors on the necessary content of such courses. The authors describe areas of study, the needs of students likely to enrol in such courses, and strategies and organisational method to make the material coherent and understandable to a largely non-science student population. Strategies discussed include: alteration of course content; decompartmentalisation of topics; relation of biological topics to social science reference points; and contrasting 'universal' and pathological age-related changes. The authors outline the content and order of subjects which they have found through experience to be successful in the instruction of a biological ageing course. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971030249 A |
| Classmark | BH: VE: 7T |
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