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Educational experiences throughout adult life — new hopes or no hope for life-course flexibility?
Author(s)	Richard A Settersten, Loren D Lovegreen
Journal title	Research on Aging, vol 20, no 4, July 1998
Pages	pp 506-538
Keywords	Adult Education ; Education ; Middle aged ; Social policy.
Annotation	The allocation and nature of educational experiences throughout adult life are explored in this article. The authors are especially concerned with the opportunities and barriers associated with the pursuit of educational experiences during the middle years, in which work and family roles are typically well formed or at their peak. Social factors that suggest there may be new possibilities for educational experiences throughout adult life and for life-course flexibility are explored, as are another set of social factors that lead the authors to take a more pessimistic view of these possibilities. A third set of individual-level characteristics that may serve as either opportunities or barriers depending on their direction is also considered. It is concluded that researchers, educators and policy-makers should turn their attention to the roles that these factors play in promoting or preventing educational experiences for adults. (AKM).
Accession Number	CPA-980721411 A
Classmark	GP: V: SE: TM2
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