International Journal of Education and Ageing:

Purpose and scope

Across the world people are living longer and many are reaching later life better educated than their predecessors, whilst the significance of a lack of education is also being recognised. Concepts of work and disengagement from work are changing on an international basis. Understandings of the relationship between ageing and learning have become more sophisticated. Politicians and policy makers are increasingly concerned with the quality of later life and the contribution education can make to that quality, as society ages.

There is an increasing volume of research, scholarship, critical comment and analysis on education, learning and ageing becoming available. This is developed and disseminated world-wide through conferences, consultations, projects, reports and presentations and in large research and development programmes that feature later life learning. Underlying research questions call on the full range of disciplines, theories and bodies of practice.

The time is right for a journal that brings together the best of international research, scholarship and practice on education, learning and ageing in a critical and accessible manner.

Download a Journal leaflet here

FIRST ISSUE AVAILABLE 22nd July 2010

The first issue of International Journal of Education and Ageing will be launched at our conference on Thursday 22nd July.   For information on articles carried in that issue, please click on the link below: 

IJEA list of articles

Guidelines for submissions

Initial information for potential contributors can be found in the leaflet above.   For full details of guidelines for submissions please click here:   Guidelines for submissions