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Age-Friendly Teaching and Learning: New Roles for Older Adults Across the Curriculum
The pioneering Age-Friendly University (AFU) framework, with its set of ten guiding principles, advocates for enabling older adults to participate fully in educational activities that promote positive and healthy aging. In addition, the AFU principles call attention to bringing younger and older lea...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7742131/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1785 |
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description | The pioneering Age-Friendly University (AFU) framework, with its set of ten guiding principles, advocates for enabling older adults to participate fully in educational activities that promote positive and healthy aging. In addition, the AFU principles call attention to bringing younger and older learners together around educational goals, and engaging learners in collaborative classroom experiences that facilitate the reciprocal sharing of expertise between learners of all ages. Implied, but not articulated, in these principles is the idea that older adults’ expertise, skills, and talents can also be tapped to support classroom learning goals and extend teaching strategies. This presentation will show how older adults can serve as valuable educational allies in classrooms across the curriculum with examples of crime scenario developers in a forensics class, conversation partners in an international oral communication class, and professional interviewers in an internship skills class. Evidence will argue that these roles enhance student learning. |
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spelling | pubmed-77421312020-12-21 Age-Friendly Teaching and Learning: New Roles for Older Adults Across the Curriculum Farah, Kimberly Montepare, Joann Innov Aging Abstracts The pioneering Age-Friendly University (AFU) framework, with its set of ten guiding principles, advocates for enabling older adults to participate fully in educational activities that promote positive and healthy aging. In addition, the AFU principles call attention to bringing younger and older learners together around educational goals, and engaging learners in collaborative classroom experiences that facilitate the reciprocal sharing of expertise between learners of all ages. Implied, but not articulated, in these principles is the idea that older adults’ expertise, skills, and talents can also be tapped to support classroom learning goals and extend teaching strategies. This presentation will show how older adults can serve as valuable educational allies in classrooms across the curriculum with examples of crime scenario developers in a forensics class, conversation partners in an international oral communication class, and professional interviewers in an internship skills class. Evidence will argue that these roles enhance student learning. Oxford University Press 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7742131/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1785 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Farah, Kimberly Montepare, Joann Age-Friendly Teaching and Learning: New Roles for Older Adults Across the Curriculum |
title | Age-Friendly Teaching and Learning: New Roles for Older Adults Across the Curriculum |
title_full | Age-Friendly Teaching and Learning: New Roles for Older Adults Across the Curriculum |
title_fullStr | Age-Friendly Teaching and Learning: New Roles for Older Adults Across the Curriculum |
title_full_unstemmed | Age-Friendly Teaching and Learning: New Roles for Older Adults Across the Curriculum |
title_short | Age-Friendly Teaching and Learning: New Roles for Older Adults Across the Curriculum |
title_sort | age-friendly teaching and learning: new roles for older adults across the curriculum |
topic | Abstracts |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7742131/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1785 |
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