Older Workforces: Re-Imagining Later Life Learning

ISBN-13: 9780367662103 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 152 str.

Domini Bingham

Opis

This book is a pragmatic guide to older workers’ workplace learning and wellbeing, with the aim of pointing to gaps between observations of older workers and assessments of management towards their mature workforce. The author aims to identify openings for professional learning to foster an engaged and productive workforce.

Spis treści

List of Figures
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

1. Introduction
2. Later life learning and development of older workers
3. Learning in a higher education workplace
4. Organisational considerations
5. Case studies for learning and development
6. The future of work
7. Exploring strategic implications
8. Reflections and Recommendations

Index

O autorze

Domini Bingham is Lecturer in Educational Leadership at the Institute of Education, UCL, United Kingdom. She leads on several modules of the MBA (Educational Leadership), MA Leadership and MA AELM (Masters in Applied Educational Leadership and Management). She researches in the areas of ageing, older workplaces, leading for wellbeing, workplace learning and citizenship in schools. She is a former adult teacher with a wider professional background in international development, the media and marketing. She has previously worked at the Commonwealth Secretariat and as Deputy Literary Editor of The Mail on Sunday, in the film industry and in public relations. She is a Chartered Marketer and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and a Teaching Fellow, Advance HE.