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Educational Gerontology

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Ames, Barbara D.	1
Gunn, Barbara A.	1
Kennedy, C. E.	1
Parker, Lois J.	1

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Encouraging Enrollment of Older University Students: A Recruitment Success Story.

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Gunn, Barbara A.; Parker, Lois J. – Educational Gerontology, 1987

Few colleges and universities actively recruit senior citizens or take action to remove real or perceived barriers to their enrollment in regularly scheduled classes. Describes a recruitment program to encourage older adults to enroll in regularly scheduled university classes. Used senior recruiters, themselves university students over the age of…

Descriptors: Enrollment Influences, Higher Education, Older Adults, Peer Influence

Consumer Information for Older Learners: A Framework for Program Development.

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Ames, Barbara D.; Kennedy, C. E. – Educational Gerontology, 1981

Proposes a framework for assessing the needs of the older learner/consumer. Includes recognition of the physiological and psychological characteristics of the elderly. Explores the impact of components of the technological and social-psychological systems. Emphasizes the adragogical approach to the actual teaching process. (Author/JAC)

Descriptors: Andragogy, Consumer Economics, Consumer Education, Delivery Systems