- Title
- Australia
- Creator
- Golding, Barry; Kimberley, Helen
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/179360
- Identifier
- vital:15567
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783319249377
- Abstract
- In the later years of life in Australia, after commitment to paid work or family responsibilities declines as life’s primary motivating factors, learning occupies a different life space and purpose from learning in previous life stages. While learning to cope with the expected and unexpected events in later life is known from research elsewhere to be increasingly important (Cooper et al. 2010; Schuller and Watson 2009), the opportunities and places in Australia to learn formally and informally have been decreasing (Golding and Foley 2011). Our chapter argues that spaces for and purposes of older adult learning are less reflected upon, both by older adults themselves, by the wider Australian society and particularly by policy makers and governments in Australia. The prevailing discourse is more about costs of caring than opportunities during ageing. "From chapter"
- Publisher
- Lifelong learning book series ; volume 22
- Relation
- International perspectives on older adult education Chapter 3 p. 25-34
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Subject
- Older people; Education; Continuing education
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