Education for Older Adult Learning: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography

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This comprehensive reference provides citations for more than 700 resources essential for planning, funding, initiating, implementing, facilitating, and evaluating a broad range of formal and informal older adult education programs. The work includes books, articles, reports, conference proceedings, government publications, dissertations, leadership guides, audiovisuals, computer programs, and curriculum materials. Each citation is accompanied by a succinct annotation, and the entries are arranged in topical chapters for ease of use. The book also lists aging network and resource organizations, databases, journals, and current laws. Author and subject indexes add to the utility of the volume. Everyone interested in older adult education will find this reference a useful guide to theoretical, managerial, and pedagogical materials.

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For practitioners, students, researchers, and public policymakers in undergraduate and graduate-level education programs.-Choice
One major improvement in this annotated bibliography over past ones in this area is the inclusion of information about on-line databases.-Clinical Gerontologist
This annotated bibliography provides a sourcebook for educators, students, researchers, and others involved in older adult learning programs. Targeted users include administrators of aging networks, caregivers, educational faculty, health care professionals, and policy planners.-Teaching and Learning
"For practitioners, students, researchers, and public policymakers in undergraduate and graduate-level education programs."-Choice
"One major improvement in this annotated bibliography over past ones in this area is the inclusion of information about on-line databases."-Clinical Gerontologist
"This annotated bibliography provides a sourcebook for educators, students, researchers, and others involved in older adult learning programs. Targeted users include administrators of aging networks, caregivers, educational faculty, health care professionals, and policy planners."-Teaching and Learning

Author Bio

REVA M. GREENBERG, a specialist in older adult education, is President of EducationAge and the Education/Training Consultant for the Westchester County Office for the Aging. She was formerly the Director of Education at Mainstream, The Retirement Institute of Westchester Community College. She is Chair of the Older Adult Education Network of the American Society on Aging and was the first convener of the Older Adult Learner Study Section of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education.