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Muhammad Asri Mohd Ali; Nahdatul Akma Ahmad; Mohamed Imran Mohamed Ariff; Nursyahidah Alias; Zirawani Baharum; Tengku Shahrom Tengku Shahdan – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
This scoping review investigates instructional strategies implemented in recent studies to enhance the digital application usage experience for the elderly, addressing emerging issues in the context of a rapidly aging global population. With the World Health Organization predicting a significant increase in the proportion of individuals aged 60…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Educational Gerontology, Intergenerational Programs, Digital Literacy
Chiquita DeLa Emel – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative study aimed to understand how educators view aging and emphasized how educators' past experiences with older adults and personal comfort level with aging influenced their beliefs and desire to teach about aging topics. Ageism harms older adults by creating adverse physical, mental, emotional, and socioeconomic health risks.…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Kindergarten, Elementary School Students, Older Adults
Lis Ângela De Bortoli; Ana Carolina Bertoletti De Marchi; Ana Sara Castaman; Barbara Barbosa Neves; Helenice de Moura Scortegagna; Lenir Antonio Hannecker – Educational Gerontology, 2024
In educational gerontology, non-formal education emerges as a possibility for lifelong learning because it is more flexible and less bureaucratic than formal education. In this context, agile culture offers a potential strategy to enhance non-formal education. While there are four manifestos for agile culture in education, their application in…
Descriptors: Educational Gerontology, Older Adults, Nonformal Education, Lifelong Learning
Bulbul, Ali Haydar; Gunaydin, Serpil; Odabasi, Hatice Ferhan – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2022
Life expectancy at birth is the highest of all times and tends to increase. This leads to an older society and brings out various needs that are not taken into consideration before, one of which is the education of older adults. People usually get the idea that older adults cannot learn or do not feel the need to learn. However, learning is an…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Electronic Learning, COVID-19, Pandemics
Lun Li; Yeonjung Lee – Educational Gerontology, 2024
There is an increasing need of gerontological education in social work to enhance the knowledge of aging and interests in senior care among students. This study is conducted based on an experiential-learning strategy with a combination of having an ethnographic interview with an older adult and writing a reflection paper afterward as an assignment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, Professional Education, Older Adults
Crawley, Amy A.; Crawley, William – Journal of Experiential Education, 2023
Background: Community-based learning is a high-impact, experiential teaching practice where elements of social interaction and authentic participation transform cognitive understanding into meaningful knowing. In the allied health field, the incorporation of community-based learning provides unique access to populations that are not inherently…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Community Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Intergenerational Programs
Xinyuan Zeng; Prasert Ruannakarn – Higher Education Studies, 2023
China's elderly population is on the rise, and there is a growing need for improved education for professionals in geriatric health care and management. "Age-Friendly Interior Design" is a mandatory component of the curriculum for students majoring in aged care and management. Problem-Based Learning (PBL) has been introduced as an…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Foreign Countries, Geriatrics, Teaching Methods
Bora Jin – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
As the population ages, more older adults seek learning opportunities in various educational settings. This article highlights the understanding of older adult learners and the greater heterogeneity within this demographic. I explore why and how older adults learn, including their learning needs, the challenges of aging that may affect their…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Older Adults, Adult Educators, Learning Processes
Hachem, Hany – Adult Learning, 2022
A late modern rationale for the education of older people has not yet been sufficiently explored. In this action research, I explore Giddens's life politics as a framework for a late modern rationale for older adult education. Eleven older learners were recruited voluntarily to an online study group conducted via Zoom at a University for the Third…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Adult Education, Adult Students, Educational Gerontology
Hachem, Hany; Westberg, Johannes – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2023
Many critical educational philosophies assume that learners are naïve and unable to critically read their social reality. Critical educational gerontology (CEG) aims to emancipate learners from oppression, to which they are oblivious. This strand of older adult education charges teachers with the task of raising learners' naïve consciousness, by…
Descriptors: Educational Gerontology, Older Adults, Adult Learning, Adult Education
Larraine Larri; Hilary Whitehouse – Gender and Education, 2024
This paper reflects on the ecofeminist educational implications of research findings about Australia's Knitting Nannas' Against Gas and Greed (a.k.a. The Nannas') experiences of peer-to-peer, environmental activist learning. Aspects of this unique and successful suite of informal learning practices devised by the Nannas guided by their Nannafesto,…
Descriptors: Educational Gerontology, Foreign Countries, Gender Bias, Age Discrimination
Halli-Tierney, Anne D.; McKinney, Robert E., Jr.; Gold, Allyson E.; Allen, Rebecca S.; Carroll, Dana G. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2021
This article focuses on the use of interprofessional case discussions as an interactive learning approach to cultivate professional identity formation among multiple professions while simultaneously promoting geriatric education and enhancing learning about diverse disciplines needed for care of the older adult.
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Geriatrics, Older Adults, Educational Gerontology
Wenqian Xu; Lotta Aavikko; Eija Kärnä; Honglin Chen; Muzawir Arief; Andreas Motel-Klingebiel; Ning An – Educational Gerontology, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation of Higher Education, necessitating a rapid shift from in-person to remote teaching and learning. This study investigates the experiences of doctoral students in an online Sino-Nordic summer school on aging, implemented during the pandemic. A survey was conducted to collect and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students
Washington Narciso Gonçalves Gaia; Wesley Vieira da Silva; Luciana Santos Costa Vieira da Silva; Milka Alves Barbosa; Nuvea Kuhn; Claudimar Pereira da Veiga – Educational Gerontology, 2024
With the rising aging population, there is a pressing need for effective public policies and academic initiatives tailored to older adults, educational aspirations, and needs. This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the intersection between older adults and university education on a global scale, highlighting the critical role of…
Descriptors: Educational Gerontology, Older Adults, Quality of Life, Higher Education
Okur, Elif; Akbal, Yagmur; Yagci Sentürk, Aysun; Dastan, Buket; Kuralay, Çigdem – Educational Gerontology, 2023
Prospective technicians for elderly care are indispensable elements that should be included in the relevant system to meet the ever-increasing care needs of the aging world population and increase the quality of care. This research was conducted to evaluate the attitudes of students in the elderly care program at the associate degree toward the…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Correlation, Associate Degrees, Student Attitudes