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| Case studies on success variables in older adult learner programs | | Author(s) | Jo Ann C Luckie |
| Journal title | Educational Gerontology, vol 25, no 3, Apr/May 1999 |
| Pages | pp 253-268 |
| Keywords | Adult Education ; Technical colleges ; Courses ; Case studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Studying whether selected adult education programmes for older people are successful is appropriate, because such programmes often experience difficulties in surviving and/or thriving. A case study of three community colleges in Tucson, Arizona, Brooklyn, New York, and Cleveland, Ohio focused on ways in which four specific variables or factors were likely to influence the success and stability of their programmes. The four variables were: leadership; funding sources and stability; organisational placement in the institution; and institutional support. A follow-up study was conducted in 1996-97, to note changes and determine further influence of the four variables. Variables used in the studies were adapted from studies of formal gerontology programmes. This article describes the history and operation of the three community college programmes, reports results and conclusions from the original and follow-up studies, and closes with working hypotheses arising from the study. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990721206 A |
| Classmark | GP: V4: VE: 69P: 7T |
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