Adult education – ‘a permanent national necessity’. For a caring democracy?
The report from the Centenary Commission on Adult Education, launched last month, has received some strong endorsements from a wide …
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Education, age and social change
What is the role of education in achieving progressive social change? And how does this question link to the opportunities …
Rebuilding educational gerontology – reasons to be slightly more cheerful
Google ‘older people’s education’ and up comes a Guardian headline with the answer – ‘neglected’. The NIACE report in question was …
Adult education in the UK – can gerontology keep up?
A serious discussion has started about adult education. No-one looking at the membership of the new Adult Education Commission can …
Active minds with nowhere to go? Getting the BSG Special Interest Group on Educational Gerontology off the ground in Manchester
Caroline Holland reports from the event at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School on Tuesday July 3rd 2018 The public event …
Educational gerontology – still a good idea?
In their conclusion to ‘The social policy of old age: Moving into the 21st century’, published twenty years ago, Mim …
Age-friendly? Hard times crossing the stressful streets
At the end of last year there was a brief exchange on Twitter between Charles Musselwhite and Libby Webb. The …
Camden Intergenerational Week 2017
Next week, from October 14th in fact, is Camden Intergenerational Week, the third bi-annual celebration since Vanda Carter, formerly the …
Dramatising the care home – rebellion or reenchantment?
The Lounge, which has been playing at London’s Soho Theatre, draws on two models of plot derived from the quest …
In memory of Tony Carter
The late Tony Carter – whose funeral took place today in south London – and I never really got on. …
