Educating Older People - M. F. Cleugh

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Résumé :

Originally published in 1962, the purpose of this book was to examine the working of the educative process when it is concerned with older people...

Biographie:
not green, pliable saplings, but sturdy and sometimes unbending timber - in short, adults with an outlook on life already formed, often with family responsibilities, and with a store of past experience, special interests, training, or expertise.

The teaching of older people does not consist merely of the adaptation of the methods applicable to school or college to the intellectual level of those to whom time and opportunity may have given an already broad understanding, theoretical or empirical, of a variety of subjects. The teaching of adults must take full account of method, but whatever the context, is also much concerned with the interrelations between individuals in groups, and with changes in the individuals themselves. For the adult, in the main, the purpose of education is improvement...

Sommaire:
not with children, prisoners, willing or unwilling, of a system of basic education, but voluntary contractors...