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ERIC Number: EJ509472
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0360-1277
Critical Gerontology and Education for Older Adults.
Weiland, Steven
Educational Gerontology, v21 n6 p593-611 Sep 1995
Traces sources of critical gerontology to the movement toward interpretive social science and to the interdisciplinary nature of gerontology. Examples of uses of critical gerontology are offered in accounts of the history of the social construction of aging and of wisdom and religion in postmodern life. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Aging (Individuals), Critical Theory, Educational Gerontology, Older Adults, Social Sciences
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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