TY - JOUR
AU - Rogers, Alan
AB - Int Rev Educ (2017) 63:285–287 DOI 10.1007/s11159-016-9601-6 BOOK REVIEW International perspectives on older adult education: Research, policies and practice Edited by Brian Findsen and Marvin Formosa. Springer, New York, 2015, 519 pp. ISBN 978-3-319-24937-7 (hbk); ISBN 978-3-319-24939-1 (e-book) Alan Rogers Published online: 17 October 2016 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht and UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning 2016 It is very difficult to review a book consisting of over 500 fairly dense pages which cover a foreword, an 8-page introduction, a 13-page conclusion and 42 country studies – all devoted to original descriptions of the provision of education for older adults in their specific context. This is less a book to read than to refer to as the need arises. All I feel I can do is to highlight some key points which occurred to me as I read through its pages. The material here challenges a number of common statements about ageing and education. First, there is the aphorism that the world is ageing. This is undoubtedly true on a global scale, but as Uganda reminds us, this is not true everywhere: ‘‘Uganda’s population is increasingly growing younger with the proportion of older persons (age 60 ?) going down from 
TI - International perspectives on older adult education: Research, policies and practice
JF - International Review of Education
DO - 10.1007/s11159-016-9601-6
DA - 2016-10-17
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/international-perspectives-on-older-adult-education-research-policies-34pDUtObX4
SP - 285
EP - 287
VL - 63
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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