4thINTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR OLDER ADULTS: FORMS, PROVIDERS AND POLICIES

PROGRAMME

2013-October-23-25

MykolasRomerisUniversity,

Ateities str. 20

Vilnius, Lithuania

2013-10-23

MRU, Ateities str. 20, Vilnius

I-414 room (Plenary session)

12.15 – 13.00 / Registration
13.30 - 17.30 / Moderators: Vaiva Zuzevičiūtė, Irena Žemaitaitytė (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania)
13.00 – 13.30 / Opening ceremony
Welcome speeches:
MykolasRomerisUniversity, Dean of Faculty of Social Policy
prof. dr. Leta Dromantienė
Chancellor of Ministry of Education andScience dr. Dainius Numgaudis
President of ESREA ELOA network prof. Bernhard Schmidt-Hertha (Germany)
President of Lithuanian Association of Adult Education Vilija Lukošuniene
Rector of Medardas Čobotas ThirdAgeUniversity dr. Zita Žebrauskienė
Musical greeting from MRU pop group
13.30 – 14.30 / Peter Jarvis (Emeritus Professor of Continuing Education at the University of, UK)
Learning, Doing and Ageing: Revisiting Experiential Learning
14.30 – 15.00 / Vaiva Zuzevičiūtė (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania)
Adult education in Lithuania: challenges and perspectives
15.00 – 15.15 / Break
15.15 - 16.00 / Bernhard Schmidt-Hertha (EberhardKarlsUniversity of Tübingen, Germany)
Informal learning of older adults: motives and opportunities in everyday life
16.00– 16.45 / Finnur Magnusson (Malmö University, Sweden)
Reshaping elderly care - needs, wants and demands of older adults
16.45 – 17.30 / Discussion Session
Moderator: Vaiva Zuzevičiūtė (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania)
17.30– 19.00 / Coffee

2013-10-24

MRU, Ateities str. 20 Vilnius

I-414 room

10.00 - 12.15 / Moderator:Sabina Jelenc Krašovec (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
10.00 – 10.45 / Marvin Formosa (University of Malta., Malta)
Learning and Health Living in Later Life: Bridging Research and Policy
10.45 – 11.30 / Sandra Valadas (University of Algarve, Portugal)
Older mature students in higher education
11.30– 12.15 / Discussion Session
Moderator:SabinaJelenc Krašovec, (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
12.15– 13.00 / Lunch Time
13.00 – 14.30 / Moderator Alina Petrauskiene ( Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania)
13.00 -13.20 / Malgorzata Malec (University of Wrocław, Poland)
Learning and longevity from the biographical perspective
13.20 – 13.40 / Esmeraldina Veloso (University of Minho, Portugal)
An analysis of Third Age Public Policies and a cultural initiative for the Third Age promoted by the tertiary sector in Portugal
13.40 – 14.00. / Sarmitė Mikulionienė, Irena Žemaitaitytė, Leta Dromantienė (MykolasRomerisUniversity)
Biography work as an active learning method of older learners
14.00 – 14.20 / Nora Jung (YorkUniversity, Toronto, Canada)
Putting adult back into adult ESL education
15.00 – 16.30 / Visit to the Lithuanian Ministry of Education and Science

2013-10-25

MRU, Ateities str. 20 Vilnius

II-230 room

10.00 – 11.45 / Moderator: Malgorzata Malec (University of Wrocław, Poland)
10.00 – 10.20 / Rute Ricardo& António Fragoso(University of Évora, Portugal)
Older men learning in the community: the case of the amateur fishing club of Faro
10.20 – 10.40 / Sabina Jelenc Krašovec & Sonja Kump (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
How rurality and urbanity of the municipality influence the educational offer for older adults in Slovenia?
10.40 – 11.00 / Ines Himmelsbach(Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Forms of Education for Older Adults: Translating an Intervention Concept into
Practice – The Case of the LOTSE Study
11.00 – 11.20 / Yukiko Sawano (Univeristy of the Sacred Heart TokyoJapan)
Super-Aging Society and Lifelong Learning of the Elderly Citizens in Japan
12.00– 13.15 / Lunch Time
13.15 – 14.45 / Moderator: Irena Zemaitaityte(Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania)
13.15 – 13.35 / Neringa Kubiliene, Lynne Gouliquer, Anne Hunt, Serena Shandik, Catherine Ann Kameron (University of British Columbia, Canada)
‘Lessons Learned from a "Day in the Life' of a Thriving Older Adult’
13.35 – 13.55 / Maria Raquel Patrício& António Osório (Polytechnic Institute of Bragança; University of Minho, Portugal)
New challenges, new possibilities: intergenerational learning and ICT for an ageing society
13.55 – 14.15 / Dominique Kern (Université de Haute Alsace, France) An Attempt at a Categorization of Epistemological Approaches in Older Adult Education and Their Methodological Impact on Learning Offers
14.15 – 14.35 / Alina Petrauskiene (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania)
The perceptions of dignity among older people
14.45 – 16.00 / Conference closing
16.00 - / Guided tour inVilnius old town (included in UNESCO's World Heritage List)

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