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Housing the Aging Baby Boomers: Implications for Local Policy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Most elderly want to age in place. Yet, most elderly live in suburban and rural communities ill-suited to meet the changing aging-related demands. This paper discusses various issues communities need to address when balancing the demands of aging baby ...
Geoffrey K. Turnbull, John W. Matthews
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Learning to explain environmental crises: A dialogic analysis of teacher professional learning between Chile and the United States

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Many studies and initiatives are animated by the potential for science education to intervene in the climate crisis and crises of environmental degradation and disinformation. For science teachers to learn to address these issues in their classes, their teaching must expand beyond scientific facts and face controversial social aspects. Dealing
Valeria M. Cabello   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intergenerational narratives / Narrativas intergeracionais

open access: yesPsicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2006
This article reviews studies on the narrative production of children and senior adults, focusing on intergenerational studies. Demonstrates the relevance of storytelling in child development and the adult's role in this context. Situates senior adults as
Lenisa Brandão   +3 more
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Mapping New Directions: Higher Education for Older Adults [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Based on surveys and focus group discussions, explores what, where, why, and how adults age 50 and up learn, how they pay for it, and how their needs are served.

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Mindfulness and resilience: The experiences of global majority students in a mindfulness intervention Programme at a UK university

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Wellbeing in higher education (HE) in the United Kingdom has been increasingly prioritised for many institutions, with a growing demand for student support requests. There are various determinants in life that can influence mental health. As such, protected characteristics, including race, can indicate that students who are Black or Asian ...
Amy Bywater, Helen Keane
wiley   +1 more source

Program for Studying Intergenerational Transmissions in Infant Mortality Using the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS)

open access: yesHistorical Life Course Studies, 2018
Studies conducted in historical populations and developing countries have evidenced the existence of clustering in infant deaths, which could be related to genetic inheritance and/or to social and cultural factors such as education, socioeconomic status
Luciana Quaranta
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The Impact of the PROGRESA/Oportunidades Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Health and Related Outcomes for the Aging in Mexico [PDF]

open access: yes
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs link public transfers to human capital investment in hopes of alleviating current poverty and reducing its intergenerational transmission.
Jere R. Behrman, Susan W. Parker
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Meeting the Challenges of an Aging Population with Success [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
With 117,099 people over the age of 65, Franklin County has the second-highest number of seniors among all Ohio counties. Projection data from the Ohio Department of Development indicates that Franklin County's 65-and-over population will grow to 224,340
Christy Rogers   +5 more
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Learning to ‘be’ an activist: Exploring the relationship between activism and informal education in a youth activism group case study

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people in the United States (and beyond) access spaces for activism in varied ways, including the out‐of‐school time sector, where youth activism (YA) groups draw on informal learning pedagogies to engage young people in collective action.
Laura Weiner
wiley   +1 more source

Who Wins and Who Loses? Public Transfer Accounts for US Generations Born 1850 to 2090 [PDF]

open access: yes
Public transfer programs in industrial nations have massive long term fiscal imbalances, and apparently permit the elderly to benefit through pension and health care programs at the cost of the young and future generations. However, the intergenerational
Antoine Bommier   +3 more
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