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Entrepreneurship Education for “Mature Preneurs”: The Role of Positive Psychology in Active Aging
In most developed nations entrepreneurs over 50 represent 26–34% of new business start-ups and they are most the successful and fastest growing...
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Questionnaires on stigmatizing attitudes among healthcare students in Taiwan: development and validation
BackgroundPeople may be stigmatized if they have mental illness, emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD), or physical or intellectual disabilities....
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An Exploratory Analysis of a Subjective Well-Being Model for Chinese University Students
College students experience great stress due to many factors, such as an uncertain future, academic responsibilities, and pressures imposed by social...
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Our Educational Journeys
In this chapter, the authors present their educational journeys, from early childhood to the transition into working in teacher education. This...
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Traversing the Dark Geography of Retirement: Learnings from Ethical and Reciprocal Research Conducted with the Older Male in Australia
Every day in 2016, more than two Australian men aged over 50 took their lives, and more than one Australian man aged over 60 took his life....
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The Place of Values in the Aims of School Science Education
Debates about the aims of school science education are perennial (e.g., Reiss & White, 2014; see also Kidman & Fensham, Chapter “...
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Pedagogy and the Unlearning of Self
Pedagogy in popular culture is embedded as a process of self-learning among subjects implicated in the reproduction of collective anxieties and...
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Dignity and Social Justice
In this chapter, the author explores the concept ‘dignity’ by connecting it to social justice and vulnerability. Vulnerability because care and...
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Mothering Bodies in Unloving Institutions
Four mothers in academia collaboratively story their lived encounters, bringing differing identities, circumstances and experiences of collective...
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Psychobiology
The psychobiology of metacognition is a vast field of investigation despite being rarely conclusively demonstrated in many species. This chapter...
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The Moral Implications of Being One Among Others (II): Persons, Groups and the Principle of Personal Worth
I articulate and defend The Principle of Personal Worth, which holds that persons, viewed in relational terms, are more morally worthwhile than...
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Concluding Remarks and Reflections
This final chapter provides an opportunity to reflect on the significance of the travails of the University of the Third AgeUniversity of the Third...
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On Being a Person as One Among Others
Drawing on ideas developed by analytic philosophers P. F. Strawson and Donald Davidson (in the tradition of Kantian transcendental reasoning), I...
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Intellectual Development and Aging of Adults in Educational Technology
We live in an era facing a strong societal demand for lifelong learning as well as actually having more abundant access to learning opportunities...
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Literature Review
The investigation of the development of first and second language skills from a linguistic and developmental psychologic perspective is at the core...
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Medical Humanities and Active Learning
Medical humanities is a multidisciplinary field within medical education, which explores contexts and experiences, as well as critical and conceptual...
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The development of social entrepreneurship education in Japan
Though the importance of social entrepreneurship (SE) and its education are widely recognised by practitioners in prior literature, SE pedagogy in...
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Thai medical students’ attitudes regarding what constitutes a “good death”: a multi-center study
BackgroundFew studies exist regarding the perception of medical students toward older adults’ wishes during their end-of-life period. Better...
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Well-being, Psychological Adjustments and Effective Social Support Giving
As a popular research topic spanning a few decades, social support research has generated voluminous empirical findings which have shown the huge...