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Elufiede, Kemi, Ed.; Flynn, Bonnie, Ed. – Adult Higher Education Alliance, 2016
The 36th Annual Adult Higher Education Alliance (AHEA) Conference was held on March 10-11, 2016 in Orlando, Florida, on the campus of the University of Central Florida. There were 48 presentations from scholars and practitioners from 20 states who participated in the conference. The contributions to these proceedings represent the best of the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Mentors, Adult Education, Conferences (Gatherings)

Marienau, Catherine – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1995
Exposure to models and theories about adult development gives learners structure and language they can apply to their own experiences. Responses of 65 women in a development course brought out 6 themes: knowing oneself, accepting oneself, connecting with others, changing perspectives, empowering oneself, and seeking growth and development. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Course Content, Females, Individual Development

Claxton, Charles S.; And Others – Innovative Higher Education, 1987
As important as teaching processes are in adult learning, it may be even more important to help adults find connections between discipline content and the issues they experience personally as they move through the life cycle. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Learning, Course Content, Educational Innovation

Barab, Sasha A.; Thomas, Michael K.; Merrill, Henry – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2001
Describes an online course in which graduate students collaboratively investigated and shared personal experiences with respect to adult development. Topics include naturalistic inquiry that was used to identify issues that characterized course dynamics; adult education; flexibility of course; co-construction of meaning; and the expression of…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Course Content, Graduate Students

Fingerman, Karen L. – Teaching of Psychology, 2000
Presents an interview with Susan Krauss Whitbourne in which she discusses issues such as the challenge in teaching a course on the psychology of aging; types of assignments and active learning she uses in her course; resources she recommends; and how her research influences the adult development courses she has taught. (CMK)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Adult Development, Aging Education, College Faculty

Wiles, David – Educational Gerontology, 1987
Outlines a recent educational initiative in social gerontology at the Western Australian College of Advanced Education: a two-year course on aging and the community. Discussed its educational and national context, the development of the course and its present content. Analyzes the student population to establish typical profiles of those…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Aging (Individuals), Course Content, Course Descriptions

Barnes, Denise R. – Teaching of Psychology, 1985
A course for teaching an advanced undergraduate course on the psychology of adult development and aging is described and evaluated. Course goals, content, and format are discussed. Students generally viewed the course favorably. (RM)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Aging Education, Course Content, Course Descriptions
Owen, Gordon R. – 1986
A communication and aging course could potentially enhance both gerontological care providers' understanding of older persons' communication needs, and the older students' communication proficiency. Regardless of the theory of social adaption to aging that the course embraces--disengagement, activity-personality, social exchange, or fundamental…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Aging Education, Aging (Individuals), Andragogy
Isenhart, Myra W. – 1983
To help adults develop an awareness of midlife issues, to encourage personal acceptance of the transition, and to introduce appropriate coping skills, a speech communication course was designed that relied on river trip activities to develop insights about this passage. The vehicle for the seminar was a four-day raft trip down the Green River,…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Analogy, Course Content, Course Descriptions

Neysmith-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
Hawkins, Robert – 1981
The components of a college course on communication and aging are described and discussed in this paper. The first section of the paper focuses on appropriate assignments, their underlying strategies, and necessary materials for enhancing young people's communication with older adults and their appreciation of the situations that elderly people…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Aging (Individuals), Assignments, Classroom Techniques
Murk, Peter J.; Ross, Jovita M. – 1988
The purpose of a review of course materials and teaching methods in the area of adult development and learning was to identify commonalities that existed in course titles, objectives, content areas, texts, required reading, resources used, course requirements, and instructional processes. Thirty-two course syllabi and 1 curriculum guide from 24…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Content Analysis

Naveh-Benjamin, Moshe; And Others – Teaching of Psychology, 1989
Assesses students' concepts of aging at the beginning, middle, and end of a psychology of aging course. Results show students' knowledge reflected stereotypes in the beginning, but during the course, new concepts appeared. Claims instructors can benefit from using this technique to plan and assess success of course goals. (Author/NL)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Age Discrimination, Aging (Individuals), Aging Education
Cross, K. Patricia – 1986
Patterns that emerged from reviewing course syllabi on adult and continuing education are discussed, and a sample syllabus is presented. These courses are offered as part of graduate level studies in the field of higher education administration. Seventeen professors provided syllabi from 43 courses taught at 9 universities. Modest agreement on…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Aging (Individuals)
Saxe, Adele R. – 1977
This manual is designed to aid elementary and secondary teachers in creating programs to teach about aging. Goals of this program are to (1) provide young people with a better understanding of the aging process, (2) provide a perspective of the meaning of education in one's own life, (3) establish cross-generational understanding and cooperation,…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Affective Objectives, Bibliographies, Cognitive Objectives