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News & Views: Call for papers for the final issue of International Journal of Education and Ageing The International Journal of Education and Ageing (IJEA) has been AEA’s flagship publication since 2010. This high quality, independent, academic journal has succeeded in its mission to feature a truly international range of original research papers. The Association has come to the decision to cease production of a printed journal and look to develop a future publication that can address the significantly changed context for educational gerontology. We have published a call for papers for our concluding issue, IJEA Volume 5, number 3. Deadline 31st January 2023.
AEA Frank Glendenning Memorial Lecture 2022 Our annual lecture will be on Thursday 26th January 2023, 5pm. The lecture will held online via Zoom. You can register here. University of Strathclyde Learning in Later Life online courses
April 2020: AEA joins the Social Partnerships Network AEA has joined the Social Partnerships Network. The network is made up of organisations, led by the Open University, who have a shared commitment to lifelong learning and social mobility and to extending higher education opportunities to all those who can benefit. AEA is pleased to have become a member of the network and looks forward to representing older learners. For further information about the Social Partnerships Network, please visit: http://www.open.ac.uk/about/main/social-partnerships
October 2019: AEA awarded National Lottery Community Fund grant AEA has been awarded a grant of £9,600 from the National Lottery Community Fund for a new 12 month project, starting December 2019. It will focus on older people and i) memory ii) well-being and iii) internet-based and digital learning. It will a) organise and evaluate two pilot national workshops; b) produce a guide for older people on how to learn effectively on-line; c) revise and extend the AEA website so that it is more user-friendly particularly for older people. The project will depend on involvement and feedback at all stages from AEA members and older people who participate. Further details about the project here Active Minds – Still Learning: a Campaign One of AEA’s aims is to contribute to the development of public policy on education and older adults at local, national and even European level. At its May 4th 2018 meeting, AEA’s Executive Committee passed the motion
During 2018 AEA members have been joining in a growing movement of protest in the UK against the reductions of publicly financed educational opportunities for older adults. The first of these occasions was an event organisedby the Hornsey Pensioners Action Group (HPAG) in London on February 21st 2018. John Miles, AEA Executive Committee member and animateur of AEA’s campaign, spoke to the theme of “Active Minds Still Learning” at the event. On June 18th 2018 John organised and chaired a well-attended lunch-time fringe meeting at the national Pensioners’ Parliament in Blackpool. Professor Keith Percy, Chair of AEA, gave an introductory talk to the meeting on his ideas about a campaign. He argued that free education for all those in the Third Age should be the ultimate societal goal but that, for the present “a demand for ‘adequate’ funding for adult education, particularly for older adult education, is a reasonable policy goal ...[which could include]… lower fees for older adults and consultation with older adults at district-level on the sorts of classes that they would like to see provided”. Dozens of people present then joined in a wide-ranging discussion. The British Society of Gerontology held its 47th Annual Conference in Manchester in early July. In the run up to the conference proper, John Miles and Emma- Reetta Koivunen organised an open fringe meeting on July 3rd as part of the work of the new Special Interest Group (SIG) of the BSG on Educational Gerontology, which is backed by a partnership between the BSG, AEA and the Ransackers Association. Also forming part of Manchester’s Festival of Ageing, the object of the meeting was to discuss the future of adult education and its importance for older people. It proved to be a very interesting and stimulating event, in which a plan of action for a campaign started to emerge. Professor Chris Phillipson gave a significant presentation under the title of ReCreating Spaces for Ageing: the role of education in later life. Professor Chris Phillipson The ‘spaces’ of the title were defined as where education and learning can enable us to practise ageing and thinking about ageing; spaces where we can ‘unlearn’ what we learned for work and re-examine stereotypes; and places where we can re-engage with activism as opposed merely participating in ‘active ageing’. A discussion of the paper was followed by a lively debate around the possibility of a new campaign for later life learning. Chris’s slides can be accessed here John Miles is currently organising a seminar on March 12 2019 at Newcastle, under the auspices of the Joint BSG/AEA/ Ransackers’ Special Interest Group on Educational Gerontology. It will be hosted by Professor Tom Scharf and will exploregerontology, life-long learning and educational policy. International Journal of Education and Ageing (IJEA) AEA's journal, the International Journal of Education and Ageing (IJEA), published its thirteenth issue in 2019. Volume 5 Issue 1 was published in July 2019 and contains the following articles: Anna Goulding & Christopher Phillipson Marvin Formosa & Priscilla Cassar Lee-Ann Fenge, Davide Mallaca, Sally Lee & Emily Rosenorn-Lanng The International Journal of Education and Ageing was launched at AEA’s annual conference in July 2010 and has continued the mission of AEA’s original journal, Education and Ageing, which was published from 1985-2003. It is available for subscription. Projects and Publications Between 2012 and 2015 AEA was a very active member of three EU Lifelong Learning Programme (Grundtvig) funded projects concerned with learning in later life and took on leadership responsibilities in segments of all three. The projects were: AEA worked on the Project with partners in Austria, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands. Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, UK. At the end of the FORAGE Project took over responsibility for the ForAgeresource database which can be accessed at www.foragenetwork.eu/ 2) Memory in Later Life: Learning - Supporting - Developing (2012 – 2014) The Project Handbook which AEA wrote, edited and published is available to download here
3) Well-being in Later Life: Education, Creativity and Physical Activity (2013 – 2015)
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