Facilitating Older Adults Learning with Learning Trajectory

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K04292
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Education
• Research Institution: Osaka Kyoiku University
• Principal Investigator: HORI SHIGEO 大阪教育大学, 教育学部, 教授 (60173613)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 久保田 治助 鹿児島大学, 法文教育学域教育学系, 准教授 (40560719) ; 藤原 瑞穂 神戸学院大学, 総合リハビリテーション学部, 教授 (90269853)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 高齢者学習 / 高齢者大学 / 学習履歴 / 日韓比較研究 / 継続性理論 / 高齢者教育 / 教育老年学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Paying attention to the learning trajectory of older adults after 70s, with theoreticak frameworks of educational gerontology and pioneering practices in Japan, a comparative study with same questionnaire between Korea and Japan was conducted. The results in Korea and Japan told us that, 1. learning needs of life review and reconstruction of human relations were cultivated after 70 years old, 2. learning trajectory of older learniners moves from "Novelty" to "Continuity" to "Disengegement," 3. threshold age of older adults' learning was supposed to be 75 years old. Gained results were submitted to an International Jouranl, Educational Gerontology.

Free Research Field

教育老年学