Critical educational gerontology at a senior center in Malta: possibilities and limitations for critical consciousness.
One area that remained off the research radar is that interface between senior centers and learning programs, and hence, their potential to act as community-based learning hubs. Countering such a state of affairs, this article reports on an action research study to investigate the extent that a tran...
| Publicado en: | Educational Gerontology Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 59 - 72 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Feb2020
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