UZPGJ51B64 Educational Gerontology

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Dana Knotová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Milan Pol, CSc.
Department of Educational Sciences – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ivana Klusáková
Timetable
Thu 8:20–9:55 B12
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
Educational Gerontology The course introduces the education of senior people and care of senior people within large social links and confronts the students with the phenomenon of aging from the gerontological, psychological, sociological and particularly andragogical point of view. There are discussed the issues of institutional and organizational background for education of seniors as related to the establishing field of educational gerontology.
Syllabus
  • Gerontology as a discipline of future, aging generation and its needs. Oldness as a social phenomeon, preparation for oldness, withdrawal to pension, function of education in postproductive age, universities of third age.
Literature
  • KALVACH, Zdeněk. Geriatrické syndromy a geriatrický pacient. Vyd. 1. Praha: Grada, 2008, 336 s. ISBN 9788024724904. info
  • KALVACH, Zdeněk. Umírání a paliativní péče v ČR : (situace, reflexe, vyhlídky) : projekt Podpora rozvoje paliativní péče v České republice v programu Public Health Nadace Open Society Fund Praha. Praha: Cesta domů, 2004, 103 s. ISBN 8023928325. URL info
  • MÜHLPACHR, Pavel and Petr STANÍČEK. Geragogika pro speciální pedagogy. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2001, 116 pp. ISBN 80-210-2510-7. info
Assessment methods
lectures, seminars, discussions, credit
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2009.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2008, recent)
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