The Study of Male Baby Boomers on Active Aging Learning Needs and Learning Preferences

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 成人及繼續教育研究所 === 100 === The current aging population is a global challenge, baby boomers are an important population of the elderly population in the future, elderly education in the future of learning objects, therefore particularly important issues for their learning characteristi...

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Main Authors: Tseng, Yufan, 曾宇凡
Other Authors: Wei, Huichuan
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41720769628698447949
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Summary:碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 成人及繼續教育研究所 === 100 === The current aging population is a global challenge, baby boomers are an important population of the elderly population in the future, elderly education in the future of learning objects, therefore particularly important issues for their learning characteristics. This study aimed to baby boomers male as the main, learn about middle-aged to older learners in active aging concept of "life safety", "sports and health", "spiritual growth" and "interpersonal", "contribution" five levels of learning needs, and learning the contents of the process of learning preferences. this study is based on the purposeful sampling method to choose eight representational people for case study; qualitative method with the semi-structured deep interview is used. Conclusions of the study are as the followings: 1. Baby boomers and men in their 40s and 50s on the physical decline has obvious feelings in order to maintain exercise, diet control and life control, and health food as a coping style. 2. Active learning needs of the aging of the baby boomers and men can be divided into five parts, including life safety, sport and health, spiritual growth, interpersonal, and contribution services. 3. Learning preferences of baby boomers and the men of learning, travel self-learning, talk about with the actual operation, etc., but interact, there is an interactive exercise, the opportunity to speak, pour the hearer - to guide and so on, while the expectations of the teachers, you believe that teachers to provide guidance to teachers and students is an equal relationship, and finally on the preferences of the environment, and want a quiet, accessible, and quite comfortable. Therefore, educational institutions, the learning needs of active aging baby boomers men planning course content, and learning according to their preferences for teaching activities. Finally, this study brings up suggestions and introspections toward the research results.