Dear List Members,
We all know that older members of our society are rapidly increasing in
numbers, even though still a "minority" of a sort - at least they often feel they
are being treated as such. If you are working with older people in any
professional capacity, you or your colleagues may be interested in this
initiative from the Institute of Education, University of London. It is a short
course designed to enhance the professionalism of all staff supporting people
in their later life activities including learning of some kind, and an opportunity
to reflect on how provision can be further improved. The content revolves
around the various situations in which older people live, and addresses such
issues as these below with the goal of considering how better policies could be
achieved:
- contexts of ageing, i.e.demographic, socio-political, gender, ethnic, cultural
and intergenerational;
- psychology of ageing, i.e. motivation and goals, maturity and wisdom;
- older learning, i.e.training, self-fulfilment, informal learning, ICT and e-
learning;
- health, well-being and care;
- critical geragogy;
- research into ageing, i.e. cognitive studies, longitudinal studies, life
narratives.
Many resources will be provided around these topics, and participants will be
encouraged and helped to focus on their own particular interests.
Delivery is over 6-8 weeks of flexible, structured online collaboration following
an opening weekend at the Institute on Saturday 27 - Sunday 28 February,
2010.
One of our invited speakers at the weekend will be Dr. Ricca Edmundson
who has just published a very important book: Valuing Older People*. She will
present the case for a humanist approach to mature adults and the social
importance of their wisdom. Another speaker will be Dr. Richard Wiggins,
Professor of Quantitative Social Science, whose theme will be labour market
exit, vounteering, caring, mortality etc. I will send the full programme out
nearer the time.
Fee: £688 by bank transfer, credit card or instalments.
Website http://www.ioe.ac.uk/study/MMALEI_02.html
For further information and an application form, please contact me at
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Best regards
Anita
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Anita Pincas, Senior Lecturer, Department of Continuing and Professional
Education
Institute of Education,
University of London.
* Valuing older people - A humanist approach to ageing Ricca Edmundson &
Hans-joachim von Kondratowitz (2009) The Polity Press
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