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Older learners
Universities and senior lifelong learners: quo vadis?
James H. Cook
Australian Catholic University
James Cook has been a lecturer at the Australian Catholic University in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1990. He has lectured widely to Arts and Education students in Asian Studies, Japanese language, Australian history, Theology and LOTE for teachers. He is also currently a PhD student at the University of Queensland.
Learning later in policy, learning later in life reflection on life as an older, working class student in formal education in Scotland.
Brian Findsen & Sarah McCullough
The University of Waikato; University of Glasgow
Brian is currently the Director of the Waikato Pathways College, University of Waikato, New Zealand. His research interests include older adults’ learning, social equity issues, and international adult education. Sarah is based at University of Glasgow, Scotland, and her research interests include older adults' learning, social and cultural capital, and identity.
Lifelong learning, work, retirement and inalienable interconnectivity: reflecting on personal success and framing collective futures.
Geoff Danaher, Phyllida Coombes & Patrick Alan Danaher
Central Queensland University; The Lakes Retirement Village;
University of Southern Queensland
Geoff Danaher teaches in the STEPS preparatory program at Central Queensland University and is co-editor of the scholarly journal _Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development_. He has down-shifted to semi-retirement, exploring an interest in creative reading and writing. He recently co-wrote a history of the Keppel Bay Sailing Club.
Patrick Danaher is Associate Professor (Education Research) in the Faculty of Education at the Toowoomba campus of the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. His research interests include Traveller education and educators’ work and identities. Phyllida Coombes, Cathy Kiddle and he are the authors of _Teaching Traveller Children_ (Trentham Books, 2007)
Reflective Practice
The eportfolio as a tool for lifelong learning: contextualising Australian practice.
Lynn McAllister, Gillian Hallam & Wendy Harper
Queensland University of Technology
Lynn is a liaison librarian at Queensland University of Technology. She is currently seconded as Senior Project Officer with the Australian ePortfolio Project, an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (previously The Carrick Institute) funded research project due for completion in July 2008. Lynn also works as a lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology at QUT. Lynn's interest in the lifelong learning agenda has developed over several years as a result of community research involving ICT training for migrant groups and senior citizens.
Community service learning and reflection: insights from two case studies.
Anne Power
University of Western Sydney
Anne Power is Senior Lecturer in music education at the University of Western Sydney. With Susanne Gannon she won the Vice Chancellor's Community Engagement Award (2007). Research to which she has contributed includes the delivery of Arts Education in 'Analysing Processes in Schooling Producing Outstanding Educational Outcomes AESOP, 2003) and Motivation and Engagement of Boys: Evidence-based Teaching Practices (DEST, 2006).
