Enhancing the Wellbeing and Wisdom of Older Learners - A Co-Research Paradigm

Informationen zum Autor Tess Maginess is Senior Lecturer in Education in the School of Education, Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland, where much of her work is with older learners. Tess has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship, has been shortlisted for the Aonatas ‘STAR’ awards for her research project ‘Sagaciation’ and previously won the BERA-SAGE Research Practitioner of the Year for Adult Education. She has published on literature, education and mental health. Zusammenfassung This book examines how the process of becoming wise, and sharing wisdom, is integrally linked to older people’s wellbeing within their lifelong learning. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Rationale and method: how we carried out the research 3. Findings: the educational dimensions of older people’s learning 4. Findings: the social dimensions of older people’s learning 5. Reflections on the research process 6. Conclusions and recommendations

Product details

• Authors: Tess Maginess, Maginess Tess
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.06.2016
• EAN: 9781138936775
• ISBN: 978-1-138-93677-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Routledge Research in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; EDUCATION / General, Education, EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Adulthood & Aging, Psychology of ageing, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Age groups: the elderly, Age groups: adults, Adult education, continuous learning, Age groups: the elderly / old age