u.n.i.c - final recommendations
download: Final Recommendations (pdf, English, 40 pages)
Policy paper on the wider benefits of learning of older people, both social and individual, in the context of ongoing demographic changes. It summarizes the findings of the UNIC Project and other research done. For dissemination purposes.
A short version will soon be available in all partners' languages.
Deutsch:
Strategiepapier über den weitreichenden, sowohl individuellen als auch gesellschaftlichen Nutzen des Lernens von älteren Menschen im Kontext des stattfindenden demographischen Wandels. Das Papier fasst die Erkenntnisse aus dem U.N.I.C-Projekt und anderer Recherchearbeiten zusammen und dient der Dissemination.
Eine gekürzte Version wird hier demnächst in allen Sprachen der Partner bereitgestellt.
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Table of content:
| 1 |
Who benefits from adult learning? Wider effects of learning | 3 |
| 1.1 |
Four pillars of Lifelong Learning | 3 |
| 1.2 |
The wider benefits of learning | 5 |
| 1.3 |
Self-confidence, self-concepts and the meaning of learning for adults | 5 |
| 1.4 |
Learning, Health and Well-being | 6 |
| 1.5 |
Learning and participation | 7 |
| 1.6 |
The wider benefits of participation in liberal adult education | 8 |
| 2 |
Working with older people | 11 |
| 2.1 |
Difficulties and Challenges | 11 |
| 2.2 |
Ways of reaching inactive older people - reintegration into society | 11 |
| 2.3 |
Examples of Good Practice | 13 |
| 3 |
Older people - a heterogeneous target group in the adult educational market | 18 |
| 3.1 |
Who are older people? | 18 |
| 3.2 |
Active retired people | 18 |
| 3.3 |
Older people in the labour market | 19 |
| 3.4 |
Who are inactive older people? | 20 |
| 3.5 |
Learning barriers | 22 |
| 3.6 |
Inclusion of all older people into life-long learning | 23 |
| 4 |
The challenge of demographic change | 24 |
| 4.1 |
Demographic change and the diversity of living conditions | 24 |
| 4.2 |
Neither regardless of age nor age-specific, but both | 26 |
| 4.3 |
Further results | 29 |
| 5 |
Framework conditions of the partners - commons and differences | 30 |
| 7 |
Motivating learning environment through non-formal adult education | 36 |
| 7.1 |
What is Non-Formal Adult Education? | 36 |
| 7.2 |
The atmosphere in the non-formal in the classroom | 38 |
| 8 |
CONCLUSION | 39 |
