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The older learner’s journey to an ageless society: lifelong learning on the brink of a crisis created by Ronald J. Manheimer

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Journal of Transformative Education ; Volume 3, number 3Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2005Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISSN:
  • 15413446
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LC5225 JOU
Online resources: Abstract: Although educational programs for midlife and older learners may seem unrelated to social ideologies about aging, work, retirement, and the economy, nothing could be further from the truth. Following the older learner’s path through a 70-year journey starting in the 1950s and ending in a projected year 2020 reveals correlations between theories of aging, rationales for older learner programs, and changes in public policy regarding retirement, social and health care insurance, and other age-based entitlement programs and social policies (mainly in North America but also with reference to other countries). If, as is asserted here, we are on the verge of an age-irrelevant society, then these lifelong learning programs hover on the brink of a crisis that may or may not be averted.
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Journal Article Journal Article Main Library - Special Collections LC5225 JOU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Vol. 3, no. 3 (pages 198-220) 68 Not for loan For in house use

Although educational programs for midlife and older learners may seem unrelated to social ideologies about aging, work, retirement, and the economy, nothing could be further from the truth. Following the older learner’s path through a 70-year journey starting in the 1950s and ending in a projected year 2020 reveals correlations between theories of aging, rationales for older learner programs, and changes in public policy regarding retirement, social and health care insurance, and other age-based entitlement programs and social policies (mainly in North America but also with reference to other countries). If, as is asserted here, we are on the verge of an age-irrelevant society, then these lifelong learning programs hover on the brink of a crisis that may or may not be averted.

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