1st Edition

Quality Learning for Positive Ageing Voices of Older Learners

By Alan Potter Copyright 2024
248 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Quality Learning for Positive Ageing explores the views of older adult learners to understand the factors that contribute to ‘quality’ in later-life learning and how these relate to wellbeing, positive ageing, and gaining protection against cognitive decline. Through capturing and considering the viewpoints of learners, facilitators and learning organisations, the author outlines the specific... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Researching the Quality of Learning

3. Ageing and Learning throughout a Longer Life

4. The Benefits of Later-Life Learning

5. The Quality of Learning in Later Life and Why it Matters

6. The Characteristics of Quality Learning

7. The Dimensions and Parameters of Quality Later-Life Learning

8. What does Quality Later-Life Learning Look Like?

9. Adopting Outcomes to Improve the Quality of Later-Life Learning

10. Concluding remarks

References

Biography

Dr Alan Potter is a former teacher, adviser and Director of Education. His passion for learning, and research into understanding quality learning in later life, has led to him become a Later Life Learning specialist at Long Life Learning Ltd. (www.longlifelearning.co.uk) based in the United Kingdom.