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Promoting lifelong learning for older workers : an international overview

Title
  1. Promoting lifelong learning for older workers : an international overview / Tarja Tikkanen, Barry Nyhan (editors).
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  1. Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2006.

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Additional authors
  1. Tikkanen, Tarja.
  2. Nyhan, Barry.
Description
  1. 270 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Cedefop reference series ; 65
Uniform title
  1. CEDEFOP reference series ; 65.
Subject
  1. Older people > Employment > European Union countries
  2. Employees > Training of > European Union countries
  3. Continuing education > European Union countries
  4. Adult education > European Union countries
  5. 79.63 adult education
  6. Adult education
  7. Continuing education
  8. Employees > Training of
  9. Older people > Employment
  10. Permanente educatie
  11. Oudere werknemers
  12. Beroepsopleidingen
  13. European Union countries
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. "TI-73-05-251-EN-C"--P. [4] of cover.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.