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Frank Glendenning Memorial Lectures: This annual series started in 2003 in honour of Dr Frank Glendenning who died in December 2002
Frank Glendenning was a founder member of the AEA, a long-term member of its Executive Committee and sometime Treasurer and co-Editor of its Journal.
Frank was based at Keele University, Staffordshire, UK, where in the early eighties he organised many educational programmes and conferences in the new area of learning in later life or ‘education for the elderly’ as it was sometimes known then. As an academic, Frank published and travelled widely and became established internationally both as a pioneer in the field of educational gerontology and as a champion of good practice in many professional fields in which older people were the clients / patients / users. He died in December 2002. The annual lecture series was set up in his memory by the Association in 2003. It seeks to promote the high quality and variety of work involving older people that Frank himself espoused throughout his long and creative working life.
The lecture will be given by Dr Amanda Grenier, Professor, Factor Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto, Canada; The Norman and Honey Schipper Chair in Gerontological Social Work Older people’s lives and the way we think about ageing are in transition amidst social change. There is a tension between models that attempt to fix ageing into age and stage based configurations and guide responses, and the everyday realities of older people. This talk revisits the concept of transition as a means to rethink understandings of ageing and the life course, to document critical moments and trajectories that challenge existing models, and to situate change within the current context in order to consider alternate approaches and just practices. AEA Frank Glendenning Memorial lecture 2019 This lecture was given by Professor Marvin Formosa, Head of the Department of Gerontology and Dementia Studies at the University of Malta on October 10th 2019. His subject was 50 Years of Older Adult Learning: Successes, Limitations and Promises. The venue was the Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Strathclyde, Graham Hills Building, 40 George Street, Glasgow, G1 1QE In the 1970s many organisations concerned with the lack of learning opportunities for older people were established e.g. Elderhostel and the Bernard Osher Foundation in the USA and universities of the Third Age in Europe. Such initiatives have surely improved the quality of life and wellbeing of participants but there are questions to be asked. Marvin Formosa’s lecture charted the successes, limitations and promises of older adult learning during the last half century. A video of a condensed version of the lecture is available on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/381161237 Credit: Val Bissland Please contact AEA Administrator if you would like access to the slides from this presentation
Professor Marvin Formosa Previous Frank Glendenning Memorial Lectures 2003-2018 Please contact AEA Administrator if you would like access to these presentations 2018 – Paul McGarry 2017 - Professor Paul Kingston 2016 - Professor Peter Lavender 2015 - Professor Sheila Peace 2014 - Dr Carol Holland 2012 - Alan Hatton-Yeo. Exploring the Gender Agenda in Later Life Learning 2009 - Professor Emeritus Keith Percy 2007 - Dr Eric Midwinter: 2006 - Professor Emeritus Brian Groombridge 2005 – Professor Phil Lyon 2003 - Professor Chris Phillipson
AEA plans to publish these lectures under the title “Raising the Consciousness”: the Glendenning lectures on Later–Life Learning 2003 – 2016 in the near future
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