A new book by School of Education Professor Qiu Wang and colleagues, including Dominick Fantacone G’21, Director of Research and Sponsored Programs at SUNY-Cortland, focuses on the educational experiences of the aging population worldwide.
Lifelong Learning: The Education of the Aging Population (Emerald, 2025) unites expert researchers, educators, advocates, policymakers, and community leaders from various countries to offer insights, key trends, theories, and practices in education for the aging population, aiming to positively influence lifelong learning for this group globally.
The book includes studies representing a variety of perspectives and research methods; informative analysis of the topic under country-specific social, cultural, historical, economic, and political contexts; and strategies to improve lifelong education of an aging society.
Chapters address:
- Digital inclusion of the elderly
- Age-friendly learning environments and media literacy
- Case studies from China, Japan, Shanghai, Taiwan, and Turkey
- The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on lifelong learning in the US
- Intergenerational learning through home school collaboration
- Poetry-writing and a sense of belonging
- Andragogical approaches to education for the aging population