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AEA EVENTS: International Conference, Maynooth - March 20th-22nd, 2012 AEA will be hosting an international residential conference in partnership with Age Action Ireland and WEA Northern Ireland. This will be held at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, just outside Dublin on the theme of New Dynamics of Learning and Ageing. New! The conference programme can be downloaded here: Conference programme Maynooth Further details on the conference can be downloaded here Conference - Maynooth
Looking towards the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations 2012 AEA Development officer Jim Soulsby, who is widely active in the field of older learning, addressed the Education Centres Association AGM in October on the subject of Looking forward to European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations 2012. In his speech he gave a trenchant summary of steps forward and backwards in Europe since 1993 – a year which was at that time designated European Year of Older People and Solidarity between Generations - and what we can learn from the setbacks of the past to take us forward into the future in 2012 – next year being designated European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations. The full text of Jim’s speech will be available here shortly.
2011 Conference, AGM and Frank Glendenning lecture AEA’s annual conference, AGM and the Frank Glendenning lecture was held on 21st July 2011. The theme of the conference was Learning, ageing and well-being, followed by the AGM. This year's Frank Glendenning lecture was delivered by Lesley Hart, MBE, formerly Director of the Centre for Lifelong, University of Strathclyde and founder of the Senior Studies Institute. The subject of her lecture was Working and Learning Together: the value of collaboration. A conference flyer with further information can be downloaded here: Conference flyer 25th Anniversary Conference and AGM The 2010 conference and AGM, which also marked the 25th anniversary of AEA, took place in London at Camden Town Hall on Thursday afternoon 22nd July 2010. The theme of the conference was Storytelling and identity in later life. The event was followed by the Frank Glendenning lecture, which was delivered by Dr Alex Withnall on the subject of Exploring the Gender Agenda in Later Life Learning. A PowerPoint presentation of the lecture can be downloaded here. gender agenda Please note you will PowerPoint on your computer to open this presentation. The conference programme is available as archive here: aea 25th anniversary conference AGM & FGL A report of the conference can be found in the Autumn edition of AEA Digest on page 8 Digest No 32
International Conference: AEA in association with Lancaster University, Department of Continuing Education: Reaffirming Teaching and Learning in Later Life The conference took place April 1-3, 2009 at Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK Full details can be found here in our archive. Conference Lancaster 2009
Frank Glendenning Lecture The 2009 Frank Glendenning memorial lecture took place at Lancaster University on Thursday 2nd April and was well attended by AEA members, other delegates to the conference and members of the public. The speaker was Professor Keith Percy, Director of the School of Lifelong Learning and Widening Participation at Lancaster University. The title of his lecture was “The Owl of Minerva: Wisdom, Experience and Learning in Later Life” and the topics he covered included a review of developments in research and educational provision for older people over the past thirty years. He also highlighted the important role that universities have to play in this area and considered what might be the content of a national curriculum for older people. Details of previous lectures and full-text downloads can be accessed here: Frank Glendenning lectures
Regional Consultations with older learners: In the course of the year October 2008-2009, AEA held a number of regional events to consult with older people on the kinds of learning they are doing, or wish to do and how providers can work with them and with other partners to offer learning opportunities. That first stage of the project has now been completed and a report on the results will be appearing shortly on this website. We are now moving on to the next stage and have compiled an updated short questionnaire asking older people what place education and learning has in their lives. If you would like to help us by completing the questionnaire, it is available here in both .pdf and Microsoft Word formats. Please either print off your completed questionnaire and send it to the address on the form or alternatively you can e-mail is as an attachment to aeasecretary@googlemail.com Please put the phrase "AEA Older Learner Survey" in the subject box of your e-mail. Older Learner survey - pdf format Older Learner Survey - MS Word format
EXTERNAL EVENTS FORTHCOMING CONFERENCE The Effect on Men's Health, Well-being and Informal Learning This conference is being held on Thursday 29 September 2011; 10am to 4pm
PAST CONFERENCE Universities and Active Ageing This conference, which was held on February 17th, 2010 and sponsored by Universities UK and the National Institute of Adult and Continuing Education. It was devoted to the theme of engaging older learners in education and training and the results of research supported by the Higher Education Funding Council for England investigating the position of older learners in universities were presented to the conference by Dr Chris Phillipson, author of the report,. Dr Phillipson also wrote about his findings on page 5 of the Winter 2010 edition of AEA Digest, which can be found here: AEA Digest Further information can also be found on the Universities UK website: Universities and active ageing
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND COURSES The 'New' Ageing Populations King's College London in collaboration University College London and University of Surrey are mounting a new ESRC funded seminar series throughout 2010 and 2011 on the theme of The 'New' Ageing Populations. Admission to all seminars in the series is free. Further details on all these events can be found here: The 'New' Ageing Populations Learning opportunities in drama The Bush Theatre in London's Shepherds Bush is developing a workshop programme for over sixties under the title "Bush Contenders". Details of this and other opportunities are available on their education, development and training page at: Bush Futures AEA Secretary Carol Allen is now teaching a drama class for Over 50s at the New Horizons centre in Chelsea, West London. Classes are open to all over 50s - you don't have to live in the Royal Borough to take part. Details of this and other New Horizon classes, which include pilates, dance, creative writing, IT skills, languages and other subjects can be found on the Activities page at: New Horizons Learning opportunities in dance Last year an edition of the "Imagine" series BBC1 was devoted to the Company of Elders, a dance group of performers ranging in age from 61 to 85 based at Sadlers Wells Theatre in North London. The programme has created renewed interest in many older learners in the art of dance. Full details of Sadlers Wells' dance workshops and other activities for the Over 60's are available here: If you would like to submit educational events and courses to be considered for inclusion on this page, please send full details including web page address to: aeasecretary@googlemail.com Please put the phrase "Education Activities" in the subject box of your e-mail. Please go to ‘Join AEA’ for further information about our services and how to join. |
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