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Rethinking art education for older adults: An ethnographic study of the University of the Third Age.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Rethinking art education for older adults: An ethnographic study of the University of the Third Age./
Author:	James, Kathy Lynn.
Description:	435 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-11, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-11A.
Subject:	Education, Art. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3336045
ISBN:	9780549923091

Rethinking art education for older adults: An ethnographic study of the University of the Third Age.
James, Kathy Lynn.

Rethinking art education for older adults: An ethnographic study of the University of the Third Age. - 435 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-11, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 2008.

Our older population is growing, and by the year 2030, one in every five Americans will be over the age of 65. Included in this growing number of older adults are those who are interested in learning about art and craft. This study is an investigation of art education for older adults. In this writing, I examine the types of programming that are currently available and I explore new possibilities through the British University of the Third Age (U3A). The U3A is a learning organization where older adult members (50 and older) share their knowledge, expertise, experiences, and interests by learning from each other. Based on the notion that, by older adulthood, people have a vast repertoire of experiences and knowledge worth sharing, in the U3A, there are no teachers and no students. There are only members who share what they know.

ISBN: 9780549923091Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018432
Education, Art.

Rethinking art education for older adults: An ethnographic study of the University of the Third Age.
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520 $a Taking an ethnographic approach, I spent five months in Britain with one local U3A group studying its entire art and craft program, engaging in participant-observation and conducting interviews. The purpose of this study was to examine art in the U3A and to explore the U3A as a means of introducing new ways to conceptualize older adult art education. Aiming to provide alternatives to current thinking, this study examines the American literature on art education for older adults through the lens of the British U3A. This literature was treated as data to facilitate comparisons between the literature and the U3A. Disconnects between these two data sources were investigated, leading to an examination of the previously unquestioned foundations and assumptions in the literature.
520 $a An in-depth background of the U3A is provided, and this study explores a number of key areas in older adult art education including teaching and learning, benefits and motivations, and the language of the literature. Themes from the U3A, including shared learning, the agency of older adults, and the social aspects of education, are discussed and used to inform art education. Through the data and discussions, numerous implications for further exploration and future research in art education are presented.
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