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Miller, Susan – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1980
Sets forth some essential facts about the aging process and discusses issues of concern to those who teach art workshops to older adults. (FL)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Artists, Attitudes, Creativity
Raas, Rebecca – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1980
Explains how to use the techniques of interviewing to motivate older adults in a writing workshop. (FL)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Artists, Creativity, Educational Gerontology
Peer reviewedHaddock, Kenneth C. – Journal of Geography, 1993
Describes the use of David Savageau's book, "Retirement Places Rated," as a tool for teaching U.S. regional geography. Discusses factors used to evaluate and rate regions as retirement destinations. Includes two project assignments used in a college-level course titled "Geography of the Aged." (CFR)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Curriculum Design, Educational Gerontology, Geographic Location
Peer reviewedBlystone, Robert V.; And Others – Science Teacher, 1988
Provides suggestions for a unit on the biological process of aging. Includes three activity sheets on the comparison of jaws and dentition from differently aged people, a denture survey, and eating and living without teeth. Includes a framework for organizing a course on the physiology of aging. (RT)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Aging (Individuals), Aging Education, Anatomy
Ganikos, Mary L., Ed.; And Others – 1979
This training syllabus on counseling older adults is written for educators and counselors, and can be used as a single course syllabus, for inservice training, or to supplement existing courses. The book is divided into 11 training modules, each of which includes counseling implications and strategies, concrete classroom activities, suggested…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Development, Aging (Individuals), Counseling Services
Peer reviewedNeysmith-Roy, Joan M.; Kleisinger, Carmel L. – Teaching of Psychology, 1997
Describes an undergraduate course project where students helped mentally alert senior citizens write their life stories. By assisting senior citizens to organize memories and interpret life decisions, the students experienced stages they had not yet lived through. Students evaluated the course project as a positive learning and personal growth…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Aging (Individuals), Biographies, Course Content
Even, Mary Jane – Lifelong Learning, 1988
When adult learners come to the learning program, they bring the individual "baggage" that they carry around--such as home problems, time constraints, employment problems, and positive or negative feelings about self. The baggage of an adult's life contains all that adults are, have been, and hope to be, as well as all that life means to them.…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Peer reviewedLaney, James D.; And Others – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1997
Describes an interdisciplinary curriculum on aging that incorporates intergenerational activities, inquiry-oriented research, narrative histories, and field trips. Includes separate questionnaires for older adults and primary grade students, an annotated bibliography, and a chart of activities emphasizing knowledge, comprehension, analysis,…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Aging Education
