From Social Welfare to Educational Gerontology: The Universities of the Third Age in Taiwan

Kuo, Shu-Hsin; Huang, Chin-Shan

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21515-6_19

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“…The book titled "Third Age and Active Aging University: Europe and Asia-Pacific Perspectives," edited by Formosa (2019), appears to indicate how widespread Third Age Universities are in the world. Taking an in-depth look at the origins, evolution, and impact of Third Age (U3A) Universities in different countries in Europe, Asia, and the Pacific, the book analyzes the increasing movement of universities for third-age people (Baschiera, 2019;Font Palomar, 2020;Formosa, 2019;Kuo & Huang, 2019;Minnigaleeva, 2019;Percy, 2019;Vellas, 2019;Zhao & Chui, 2019). Jacob (2019) presents that RUTIS (Third Age University Network Association) is implementing the proposal to create a technical guide for organizing Third Age Universities to improve the senior population's quality of life and lifelong learning in Portugal.…”

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Old Age Adult Education Systems and Refreshment University

Okur¹,

Oktay²

2021

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Purpose: This research aims to determine the place of the "Refreshment University" in the systems of older age education in the world by examining the purposes, basic features, admission conditions, activities, and ways of providing funding for the systems for older age education in the world.Design/Methodology/Approach: Since the researcher will develop an objective attitude by looking at the facts from the outside with a deductive approach, the research has been designed with a cross-sectional descriptive design, one of the survey models, with a quantitative research approach. The study population was determined by grouping them as French model, English model, and hybrid models, and ten universities were determined to be examined through purposive sampling. One of these universities represents the French model, one represents the English model, and the other eight universities represent the Hybrid models. The investigated features of these ten older adult education systems were also carried out for Refreshment University. In collecting data, the websites of the older adult universities in the sample were examined and the catalogs, reports, plans, periodic written sources, magazines, books, films, photographs, and videos (documents) accessed from the websites were used. The data analysis was carried out by presenting the tables created in line with the questions determined to achieve the purpose.Findings: Old age adult university systems in the research sample were analyzed in terms of their objectives, main characteristics, student admission conditions, educational areas and activities, and sources of funding. The research has concluded that although the "Refreshment University" is similar to the French model, it is a proper candidate to create a hybrid model. It should be noted that this could change, given that "Refreshment University" is more recent and developing.Highlights: The primary purpose of the systems for older age adult education is to ensure healthy and quality aging as well as active aging in line with the philosophy of lifelong learning.

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Old Age Adult Education Systems and Refreshment University

Okur¹,

Oktay²

2021

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“…Purposefully, no one in the country prepares heragogues (specialists in training the elderly, by analogy with educators and andragogs). However, enthusiasts from the universities of the third age are actively sharing their hands-on experience at conferences and online (Kuo and Huang, 2019). The experience of the Universities of the third age shows that the elderly need not only to acquire new knowledge but also to share their own.…”

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State Administration in the Field of Education of People of the “Third Age” in Ukraine

Pakhomova

Synenko

Garasymiev

et al. 2020

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Education of people of the “third age” is based on the fact that the ability to self-development and understanding of the surrounding world is reduced to the application of previously acquired knowledge in a certain period of time. At the same time, it is believed that a decrease in cognitive abilities and an increase in inaccuracies in motor skills leads to the fact that it is almost impossible to master new knowledge. Determining the extent to which this statement corresponds to psychological and educational attitudes shapes the relevance of the study. The novelty of the research is determined by the fact that, for the first time, it is proposed to approach the topic of education for people of “third age” not only as a problem, which is determined solely for increasing the employment of the population and raising the retirement age. The authors offer to consider the topic of the research as a factor in improving the standard of living and social adaptability of "third age" citizens. Models of university and distance education are considered in the article. The practical significance of the research is determined by the need to develop the issue outlined in the face of crisis and the desire of public administration to identify priorities for the formation of a qualitatively new social model. A model of comparative analysis with foreign models is used in the research as well as and the experience of implementation is offered to be implemented.

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An Outsider’s Perspective on Taiwanese Senior Learning Developments

Findsen

2022

Taiwan’s Senior Learning Movement

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From Social Welfare to Educational Gerontology: The Universities of the Third Age in Taiwan

Cited by 4 publications

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Old Age Adult Education Systems and Refreshment University

Old Age Adult Education Systems and Refreshment University

State Administration in the Field of Education of People of the “Third Age” in Ukraine

An Outsider’s Perspective on Taiwanese Senior Learning Developments

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