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ONE YEAR LATER. PEFETE. P an- E uropean F orum for E ducation of T he E lderly, a Grundtvig 4 network project. workshop "Basic Principles of Senior Citizens' Education" 2004 workshop "Interactive Learning" 2005 workshop ''Train-the-Trainer" (Grundtvig 3) 2006.
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ONE YEAR LATER PEFETE Pan-European Forum for Education of The Elderly, a Grundtvig 4 network project
workshop "Basic Principles of Senior Citizens' Education" 2004 workshop "Interactive Learning" 2005 workshop ''Train-the-Trainer" (Grundtvig 3) 2006 publication ''Actual Trends in Senior Citizens´ Education" 2004 publication "Involving Senior Citizens´ Initiatives in Learning " 2005 publication "Learning Partnerships" 2006 Outputs • an informative and interactive website with the possibilitity to transform in a virtual community 2003 • all publications will be available on the web
Education: the process whereby people,individually and in association with others, engage in direct encounter and then purposefully reflect upon, validate, transform , give personal meaning to and seek to integrate their different ways of knowing (Weil &McGill, 1989)
Themes/ Target groups - REFLECTED IN COUNTRY REPORTS • all relevant aspects of senior citizens education: • access to • objectives • programs • methods • links to existing adult education • specific attention to the situation of older women • specific attention for the increasing number of senior citizens from ethnic minorities • special regard to frail and housebounded elderly • including particularly the need for new intergenerational links and intercultural aspects
Incoherent policy on education and ageing Most of senior citizen's education is: - not institutionalised - not formal - not functional - not vocational But based on - self directive and experiential learning - self organisation
Concept of elderly education This means that we have to translate concrete learning activities into • Empowerment • Competence development • Social participation • Integration