Lifelong learning for active ageing in nordic museums; archives and street art

TY - JOUR

T1 - Lifelong learning for active ageing in nordic museums; archives and street art

AU - Fristrup, Tine

AU - Grut, Sara

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - In this article, we develop a framework that demonstrates how older adults need to develop diverse capabilities in relation to their educational life course through engagements in Nordic museums, archives and street art activities. We discuss how European museums have taken up UNESCO’s approach to lifelong learning as a way to conceptualise activities for older adults’ in museums, as we emphasise an approach to adult education for active ageing articulated as ‘lifelong learning for active ageing’. To illustrate this framing, we outline a number of activities taken from publications, cultural sites and conferences in which we have been involved over the last decade in the context of the Nordic Centre of Heritage Learning and Creativity in Östersund, Sweden. We argue that lifelong learning for active ageing in cultural heritage institutions can contribute to the development of older adults’ civic capabilities that needs to be seen as a prerequisite for the development of older adults’ health capabilities.

AB - In this article, we develop a framework that demonstrates how older adults need to develop diverse capabilities in relation to their educational life course through engagements in Nordic museums, archives and street art activities. We discuss how European museums have taken up UNESCO’s approach to lifelong learning as a way to conceptualise activities for older adults’ in museums, as we emphasise an approach to adult education for active ageing articulated as ‘lifelong learning for active ageing’. To illustrate this framing, we outline a number of activities taken from publications, cultural sites and conferences in which we have been involved over the last decade in the context of the Nordic Centre of Heritage Learning and Creativity in Östersund, Sweden. We argue that lifelong learning for active ageing in cultural heritage institutions can contribute to the development of older adults’ civic capabilities that needs to be seen as a prerequisite for the development of older adults’ health capabilities.

KW - Kultur

KW - Livslang læring

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85067676457

U2 - 10.1080/02660830.2016.1219486

DO - 10.1080/02660830.2016.1219486

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0266-0830

VL - 48

SP - 210

EP - 224

JO - Studies in the Education of Adults

JF - Studies in the Education of Adults

IS - 2

ER -