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Title: | Education and older adults at the University of the Third Age |
Authors: | Formosa, Marvin |
Keywords: | University of the Third Age Older people -- Education Continuing education -- Malta |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
Publisher: | Educational Gerontology |
Citation: | Educational Gerontology. 2012, Vol.38(1), p. 114-125. |
Abstract: | This article reports a critical analysis of older adult education in Malta. In educational gerontology, a critical perspective demands the exposure of how relations of power and inequality, in their myriad forms, combinations, and complexities, are manifest in late-life learning initiatives. Fieldwork conducted at the University of the Third Age (UTA) in Malta uncovered the political nature of elder-learning, especially with respect to three intersecting lines of inequality - namely, positive aging, elitism, and gender. A cautionary note is, therefore, warranted at the dominant positive interpretations of UTAs since late-life learning, as any other education activity, is not politically neutral. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/1210 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacSoWGer |
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