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Publication Date: 2015
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Learning Choices, Older Australians and Active Ageing
Boulton-Lewis, Gillian M.; Buys, Laurie
Educational Gerontology, v41 n11 p757-766 2015
This paper reports on the findings of qualitative, semistructured interviews conducted with 40 older Australian participants who either did or did not engage in organized learning. Phenomenology was used to guide the interviews and analysis to explore the lived learning experiences and perspectives of these older people. Their experiences of learning can be described in two main categories of pleasure and leisure or purpose and relevance. Almost all the activities described in these categories have the potential to support health and wellbeing. Organizers of activities should take these reasons into account.
Descriptors: Older Adults, Aging (Individuals), Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Semi Structured Interviews, Phenomenology, Learning Experience, Leisure Time, Health, Well Being, Learning Activities, Surveys
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