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| Humanistic education in gerontology - a case study using narrative | | Author(s) | Suzy Gattuso, Celia Saw |
| Journal title | Educational Gerontology, vol 24, no 3, April/May 1998 |
| Pages | pp 279-286 |
| Keywords | Ageism ; Students ; Ageing process ; Practical politics ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Education is increasingly influenced by economic rationalism toward a narrow technical focus and the erosion of curricula that address values. Yet education in gerontology must prepare students to deal with issues such as the meaning of a life or of a death and encourage empathy with older people in a teaching context where students are often unaware of, or insensitive to, the diversity of older people. Students typically operate on the basis of minimal informal or intimate contact with older people in the judgements they make about them. Narratives about ageing are an antidote to simplistic and conventional ways of thinking about old age; they provide myths and metaphors that challenge stereotypical thinking by powerfully engaging emotional responses as well as intellectual ones. In an exploratory case study with Australian students of gerontology, narrative texts were set and evaluated as learning tools. Attributes of this mode of learning include the evoking of empathy and the confronting of attitudes; students describes an enhanced awareness of stereotyping and found that narratives were a means of facilitating integration of different topics in gerontology. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980811225 A |
| Classmark | B:TOB: XN: BG: Vl 7YA |
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