Educating the New Leisure Class: Teaching Humanities to the Elderly.

Gold, Suzanne

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Publication Date: 1982-Sep

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Educating the New Leisure Class: Teaching Humanities to the Elderly.

Gold, Suzanne

Lifelong Learning: The Adult Years, v6 n1 p16-17,26 Sep 1982

A humanities teacher describes various methods of teaching humanities to the elderly: the reading of autobiographies, group writing exercises, and the taping of a script about students' memories of their pasts. The author encourages the teaching of all subjects to the elderly. (CT)

Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Audiotape Recordings, Autobiographies, Drama, Humanities, Humanities Instruction, Older Adults, Philosophy, Short Stories, Teaching Methods, Writing Exercises

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Non-Classroom; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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