Third Age Learning: Adapting the Idea to a Thailand Context of Lifelong Learning

Autor/inn/en	Ratana-Ubol, Archanya; Richards, Cameron
Titel	Third Age Learning: Adapting the Idea to a Thailand Context of Lifelong Learning
Quelle	In: International Journal of Lifelong Education, 35 (2016) 1, S.86-101 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0260-1370
DOI	10.1080/02601370.2015.1132279
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Older Adults; Adult Learning; Lifelong Learning; Aging (Individuals); Resistance (Psychology); Informal Education; Social Change; Adult Education; Educational Gerontology; Needs Assessment; Models; Thailand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Älterer Erwachsener; Adulte education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Aging; Altern; Resistenz; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Sozialer Wandel; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Geragogics; Geragogik; Bedarfsermittlung; Analogiemodell
Abstract	The concept of the university of the third age (U3A) is well established overseas and a key international focus for emerging global networks of senior citizen (i.e. seniors) lifelong learning. However it is yet to become so in Thailand although it too is in the process of becoming an ageing society. Moreover, this is despite the extent to which community learning centres and related agencies of non-formal as well as formal learning are popular and generally well-established in the local context. This paper investigates the reasons for possible local resistance to the U3A concept. It will do so as a basis for exploring the idea of reframing local efforts to promote seniors lifelong learning in terms of a wider and cross-culturally convergent concept of "third age learning." In this way the paper will further consider some of the interesting, relevant and transferable global implications of the local dilemma regarding the U3A concept in a fast-changing world of increasing uncertainty in work, security, and other aspects of life. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01