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Title

Promoting lifelong learning for older workers : an international overview / Tarja Tikkanen, Barry Nyhan (editors).

Publication

Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tikkanen, Tarja.
• Nyhan, Barry.

Description

270 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

Recoge: Part I -Older workers and lifelong learning: current state of play. - Part II -Overview of the situation: Europe and beyond. - Part III -Views of older employees on work and learning. - Part IV -Personal reflections of older learners. - Part V -Theoretical and critical perspectives on policies an practice. - Part VI -Impact of workplace practices on older workers' learning.

Series Statement

Cedefop reference series ; 65

Uniform Title

CEDEFOP reference series ; 65.

Subject

• Older people > Employment > European Union countries
• Employees > Training of > European Union countries
• Continuing education > European Union countries
• Adult education > European Union countries
• 79.63 adult education
• Adult education
• Continuing education
• Employees > Training of
• Older people > Employment
• Permanente educatie
• Oudere werknemers
• Beroepsopleidingen
• European Union countries

Note

• "TI-73-05-251-EN-C"--P. [4] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Machine derived contents note: Cper 1. Introduction: promoting age-friendly work and learning policies -- Tarja Tikkanen and Barry Nyhan -- PART I -- a 2. The lifelong learning debte and older workers -- Tarja Tikkanen -- ter 3 New policy thinking on the relationship between age, -- work and learning -- Barry Nyhan -- PART II -- Chpter 4 Review of European and international statistics -- Pascaline Descy -- ter 5. The situation in Japan -- Toshio Ohsako and Yukiko Sawano -- PART ll -- ter 6. Employees conceptions of age, experience -- and competence -- Susanna Paloniemi -- apter 7. Work attitudes and values of older US -- public service employees -- Renee S. Fredericksen -- hpter 8. Company policies to integrate older male workers -- in Denmark -- Leif Emil Hansen and Tom Nielsen -- PART IV -- es' e t; o ole ea -- Chapter 9. Taking a higher educationdegree as a mature student -- a personal story -- Titane Delaey -- Chapter 10. From steelworker to nurse -- the story of Car -- Hanne Rand/e -- PART V -- T:eoral a riU,!;: pe-rspectivs -- Chapter 11 Identification with work: inhibition or resouce for learning? -- Henning Sailing Olesen -- Chapter 12. Older workers and learning through work the need -- for agency and critical reflection -- Stephen Billett and Marianne van Woerkom -- Chapter 13. Lifelong learning funding policies for older workers -- in the Netherlands: a critical review -- Barry J Hake -- PART Vi I : r l , a i: -- Chapter 14. Building workplaces in line with the ageing process -- Berd Dworschak, Hartmut Buck and Alexander Schletz -- Chapter 15. Learning in a restructured industrial environment: -- older workers 'displaced' from the British steel sector -- Mark Stuart and Robert Perrett -- Chapter 16. The impact of a learning incentive measure on older workers -- Albert Renkema and Max van der Kamp -- Chapter 17. Older workers' learning in changing workplace contexts -- barriers and opportunities -- Alison Fuller and Lorna Unwin.

ISBN

• 9289603941
• 9789289603942

LCCN

• 2006507786
• 9789289603942

OCLC

• ocm74426024
• 74426024
• SCSB-1410520

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library