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Mendoza-Ruvalcaba, Neyda Ma.; Rico-Hernández, Sergio Alejandro; Alvarado-Rodríguez, Marlene – Educational Gerontology, 2021
Gerontology programs in higher education are needed and offered all around the world. In the past two decades, in Mexico there has been a rapid spread of bachelor programs in gerontology, and the number of programs continues to increase. The aim of this paper is to analyze the orientation of the bachelor programs in gerontology offered in Mexico…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Undergraduate Study, Program Descriptions, Educational Gerontology
Lee, Youjung; Kim, Young-Mi; Bronstein, Laura; Fox, Vince – Educational Gerontology, 2021
Intergenerational volunteerism is a global phenomenon that aids multiple generations. Considering the positive evidence of volunteering among older adults and their desire for engagement with children, it is important to explore older adult volunteers' experiences in intergenerational programs with a specific focus on the cultural and social…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Volunteers, Older Adults, Phenomenology
Andersson, Ninnie; Ferm Almqvist, Cecilia – Research in Dance Education, 2020
This study sheds light on dance as democracy among people 65+. The article presents a study that is part of the project Age on Stage, in which elderly people were offered to express themselves through dance as an aesthetic form of expression. Hannah Arendt and Simone de Beauvoir are applied as philosophical lenses. Elderly people's participation…
Descriptors: Dance, Democracy, Older Adults, Program Descriptions
Menéndez, Susana; Pérez-Padilla, Javier; Maya, Jesús – Educational Gerontology, 2018
The university programs designed for older people (UPOP) is an important educational resource and it is essential to study them to identify their characteristics, the key aspects of their effects, and the possible additional benefits of participation in formal educational activities for its students. This systematic review aimed to examine the…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Educational Resources, Profiles, College Students
Haryono Suyono – Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 2021
Ageing populations are growing everywhere in the world including in Indonesia. The growth of the ageing population has led to policy concerns about how the country's aged population is being cared for and supported, what approaches families and governments could do to meet the needs of the aged and how to encourage the ageing population to…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Older Adults, Public Policy, Aging (Individuals)
Ferreira, Heidi Jancer; Drigo, Alexandre Janotta; Kirk, David – Sport, Education and Society, 2022
Given the rapid growing number of the ageing population worldwide, it has been questioned how health and wellbeing in old age can be improved, especially for women in socially vulnerable contexts. Research have shown that social aspects are key determinants for older-age groups' engagement in an active life. It is crucial to understand older…
Descriptors: Health, Well Being, Aging (Individuals), Older Adults
Aldaco-Arias, Susana Maria; Silas-Casillas, Juan Carlos – International Review of Education, 2021
This article showcases "Compuabuelitos," a Mexican project where teenagers taught their own grandparent (or another elderly person they already knew) basic cell phone technology skills. The Spanish project name conflates "computer" and "abuelitos" [the affectionate term for grandparents], which is difficult to…
Descriptors: Grandparents, Parent Child Relationship, Mexicans, Program Descriptions
Castro Rojas, María Dolores – Educational Gerontology, 2021
This study describes the barriers and supportive factors for learning about and using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) present during a learning intervention designed to enable older adults to use ICT for fostering healthy aging in terms of promoting functional ability. Forty-one adults, older than 60 years, participated in a…
Descriptors: Barriers, Older Adults, Aging (Individuals), Learning Processes
Agudo, Ana Amaro; Heredia, Nazaret Martínez – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2018
The world population has changed spectacularly in the last decades. The growth in life expectancy is forcing a restructure in our policies and, obviously, education. For 2050, there will be 2.000 sixty plus year olds. That is more than 20% of the world population. Besides, discrimination for ageing and, sometimes, abandonment and abuse of elderly…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Aging (Individuals), Foreign Countries, Inclusion
Boyd, Diane – Education 3-13, 2020
The aim and focus of the early childhood intergenerational sustainable skill café was to highlight the potential of the lost arts and traditions of our cultural heritage. Kuttner (2015, 70, Educating for Cultural Citizenship: Reframing the Goals for Art Education. "Curriculum Inquiry" 45 (1): 69-92) argues for education to provide…
Descriptors: Handicrafts, Intergenerational Programs, Art Education, Early Childhood Education
Li, Ai-Tzu; Wei, Hui-Chuan – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
This article introduces Taiwan's innovative lifelong learning programs for middle-aged and older adults, and discusses their social influence. The innovative active aging learning programs launched in 2008. The purpose of implementing active aging learning is to work at the grassroots level with the hope of providing increasingly comprehensive and…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Adult Education, Government School Relationship, Educational Opportunities
Maulod, Ad; Lu, Si Yinn – Educational Gerontology, 2020
The National Silver Academy (NSA) was launched in 2016 as part of the Singapore government's Action Plan for Successful Aging. This paper uses a grounded approach to explore and assess critical geragogical elements that are enabling, empowering and transformative for older learners. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 48…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Transformative Learning
Dahdal, Sohail – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2019
Youth reliance on social media platforms as their main source of media consumption presents an opportunity to increase their cultural knowledge through engaging them in digital storytelling of their village oral history. This paper examines the results of a pilot study conducted in Palestinian villages with youth who were trained on local…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Social Media, Story Telling, Rural Areas
Ruangsan, Niraj; Phrasophonphatthanabundit; Thongdee, Vitthaya; Promgun, Suraphon; Sanmee, Wichian; Kositpimanvach, Ekarach – Online Submission, 2021
The paper aimed to clarify the Buddhist instruction care for planning Thai elderly to have well-being in the sociocultural settings concerning the elderly development project in Thailand. The objectives of this study were: 1) to clarify the management policy of the elderly development within the upper northeastern locale; 2) to discover…
Descriptors: Buddhism, Older Adults, Well Being, Caring
Balyasnikova, Natalia; Higgins, Sarah; Hume, Matt – TESOL Journal, 2018
This article describes the process of using an ethnodrama while working with older adults learning English as an additional language. By examining a 4-month-long period of Seniors Drama Club, created to offer theatre-based language learning experiences for Vancouver's immigrant senior population, the authors draw attention to the complex learning…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Drama